This curriculum is used to target individual goals, track progress and schedule daily activities. This classroom is supported by a variety of specialists including an early education teacher, a computer instructor, a speech pathologist and a pediatric audiologist. The instruction is guided by Magnolia's own curriculum, which includes 10 subject areas. The Mainstream Program is crucial to the success of the children that leave our program. Magnolia's staff continues to serve students through consultation, inservice, problem solving, outpatient speech and auditory therapy, and tutoring as long as there is need.
Parents play such an important part in the development of their children.
When a hearing loss is diagnosed and aids are fitted, the educational process begins for both the parent and the child. Magnolia's Parent-Infant Program is partially funded by the Mississippi State Department of Health in conjunction with Mississippi's Universal Hearing Screening law. To date approximately 60 of the state's hospitals are screening the hearing of newborns. A trained parent advisor makes weekly visits to families' homes and day care centers. School-based sessions are scheduled weekly as well.