As the children progress, our program challenges them to sharpen their growing skills. Parental involvement is always encouraged. The goal is to prepare children for mainstreamed education. Children learn about letters, sounds, science and social studies concepts and numbers. They begin to write words, phrases and sentences, building a word bank of sight vocabulary and words that they can sound and blend.
Parents continue their close involvement and daily communication with teachers.
Staff meet with school personnel, visit children's classrooms and serve as a resource to schools and families. Clinical Services Children and adolescents receive individual auditory, speech and language therapy on a regularly scheduled basis. The therapy stresses the use of residual hearing and helps children develop a growing awareness of the auditory environment. At home, parents have materials to maximize the lessons learned at Clarke Jacksonville. Consultations are provided to teachers, other therapists and medical personnel working with the children and include visits to children's classrooms to assist in the mainstreaming process and classroom reinforcement.