Let us look into some of the school programs that are planned for the students:
The Provo Canyon School organizes an early adolescent program for boy students between the age of 12 and 14. A separate section is devoted towards these students. The staff and teachers assigned to these students are larger in number leading to more individual attention being given to each student. Most of the students of this program are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD / ADHD).
Recreation therapy provides the opportunity for students to work with their problems both mentally and physically. Talk therapy helps students overcome communication problems. There are no distractions like TV, music and cinema to disturb or distract the students.
Another new recreation therapy is called Therapy Without Walls (TWW). These trips are arranged with eight group members each in a team. At least two Provo Canyon therapists accompany the students on the trip. A residential therapist is also part of the team.
The program consists of ten trips to Northern Utah and six trips to Southern Utah. The Southern Utah trips last for five days each, the Northern Utah trips are for a period of two days each.
Southern Utah trips: There are two trips to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument- these are backpack trips. Exciting canoe trips at Labyrinth Canyon on the Green river are arranged three times a year. Pre-adolescents are taken for a trip to the Moab and Arches National Park.
The Northern Utah trips are during the winter months. Cross-country skiing is arranged in the Uinta Mountains for two of the trips. Hiking at Rock Canyon are the other four trips that are planned by the Provo Canyon School.
Students in their final term at Provo Canyon School are offered internships.
As part of school activities, indoor and outdoor rope courses are arranged.
A Provo Canyon student has the limit of participating in at least two recreational groups in a month. One activity will be an outdoor arrangement while another will be carried on indoors. Therapist will be part of the team in both cases.
Apart from other activities, special attention is given to studies, to promote all-round excellence of each individual.
