The Swansea Wood School provides services to both male and female adolescents and young adults, ranging in age from 12-22. All of our students are coping with the dual challenges of emotional disturbance and mild cognitive deficits. They typically present with histories of trauma, psychiatric hospitalization, and difficult/inappropriate behaviors. These students have typically shown poor performance, both academically and behaviorally, and have experience failures in less intensive settings. Often our students have struggled to find a peer group due to their limitations and psychiatric difficulties; many of our students have expressed that the Wood School is the first place they have been where they feel as though they can fit in and make friends.