If you're a Turko files fan you may remember the Pioneer Day School. Turko had to help rescue them when local school districts delayed their funding a few years ago. Now they're back on track and breaking new ground, and when it comes to helping kids with learning problems, they are true pioneers.

Pioneer Day School in Ocean Beach looks pretty much like any other day school from the outside, you’d never that what goes on in there is literally groundbreaking. There’s plenty of traditional education there, but kids also tend a garden, help cook lunch and do all sorts of other activities to keep them mentally engaged.

Jim Leiner started the school for autistic children less than a decade ago, but now the school accepts kids with all sorts of disabilities. Turko’s done several stories to help out Pioneer Day School over the past few years because he’s seen the program and he believes it works. Now in a major breakthrough, there is actually scientific proof backing this belief.

Dr. Jake Henn is a behavioral neuroscientist whose been working with the parents and kids at the school for the past year. Despite Henn’s plans to document and publish the proof of success of the school’s program, the school needs the public’s help. A lot of their funding comes from local school districts who send problem kids to Pioneer Day School, but they operate on a shoestring and keep tuition to a bare minimum.