AC-ACLD, Incorporated

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Two years later, in 1966, our organization was founded and named AC-ACLD, Allegheny County Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. We affiliated with the national organization, LDA, Inc., which was also located in Pittsburgh. Our initial mission was to improve the county?s educational services for the large, unserved population of children with LD. We began by providing information about Learning Disabilities to parents, professionals, and the school systems in Allegheny County.

In 1979, the ACLD Adult Program was created. It was one of the first rehabilitation programs in the US solely dedicated to helping adults with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) to attain higher literacy skills and employment. In 1974 the ACLD Adult Program received a grant from the PA Department of Labor and Industry?s Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation to provide services to adults with specific learning disorders, but it was not until the mid-1980s that SLD was finally recognized by the federal government as a ?legitimate? cluster of disabilities.

ACLD has many years of experience in providing consultation. We have the expertise to provide a wide range of individualized consultation services to professionals, school systems, and others.

Over the decades the ACLD Tillotson School has developed a highly effective special education program for students challenged by complex Specific Learning Disabilities and related disorders. The school is coeducational and was founded in 1972 by a not-for-profit corporation, ACLD, Inc., An Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities. It is located in the South Hills section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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