At the beginning of the year, the students are weighed and measured along with the rest of the class. Along with their tutor, they keep a journal of their weight loss progress. The student is allowed to work at their own pace. If they're exercising with weights, the student with special needs may bring soup cans that are full, and use those as weights. That's because if you haven't been doing any kind of physical activity, to avoid the injury, you want to start out slowly.
Child development is a class that's tied in with our home economics department.
The child development class starts with some sex education training. It takes the woman all the way through pregnancy and delivery, and then the teacher goes into the different phases of development of the child. There is a peer tutor in there with the student with special needs, and the tutor and the student both take notes. Then the tutor's note book can also be used by the student during the taking of tests. The teacher's tests are fairly lengthy and, she tries to use a variety of questions in her testing like true or false questions, fill in the blank, multiple choice.