Our district also has three self-contained classes for those children who would benefit from that small group setting. The speech therapist is considered an important part of the educational team and process. Speech therapists are part of the Kindergarten Screening Team and Project Support Team. The main goal is to increase the student's ability to communicate. This includes diagnosis and evaluation of each child's speech and language development.
Appropriate therapy is conducted in individual or small group settings.
Our current system allows mildly impaired students to participate in a regular classroom setting with limited modifications. Our hearing specialist consults with the regular classroom teacher to improve the listening environment in the classroom. She also supports, in a resource capacity, any deficits in academic abilities relating to the hearing disability. For students requiring an adaptive physical education program, we have teachers certified to perform this function. These students participate in regular physical education classes, but are also pulled out for extra remediation.