Support from itinerant teachers may be provided along a continuum from a monitoring level of service to direct service provided within the classroom or through individualized instructional sessions as determined by the student's needs. Itinerant audiological services are also provided as appropriate. This program integrates maximum use of residual hearing, speech and speech-reading. Emphasis is placed on language development, auditory and oral communication skills and social competency. Classroom teachers of the deaf are supported by school-based audiologists, speech and language clinicians, a social worker, and other specialists offering related services as appropriate.
Team teaching occurs at all grade levels with the general education staff.
Individual students are integrated in varying degrees into general education classes as determined by the IEP team. This program offers a language-based educational curriculum emphasizing literacy, communication skills and independence for deaf and hard of hearing students. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of communication skills in English and the development of reading comprehension skills. Cueing offers hearing parents the opportunity to communicate with their deaf or hard of hearing children in the language of the home. Classroom teachers are supported by school-based speech and language clinicians, an audiologist, a social worker, and other specialists offering related services as appropriate.