Serving students with special needs

Students at Stewart Home School, like those at any other private boarding school, are busy with academics, friends, field trips and sports. But at this school, all the students are intellectually disabled men and women.

Dr. John Quincy Adams Stewart, who founded the school in 1893, wrote extensively on educating the intellectually disabled and headed the state institution in Kentucky. Eventually, he opened a private, for-profit school for 13 students on the 850-acre grounds of the former Kentucky Military Institute, near Frankfort, Ky.

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