Skills targeted include but are not limited to memory enhancement, vocabulary development, classifying, analyzing, inferring and evaluating. Occupational Training Occupational therapy is offered in small group as well as individual sessions. It focuses on the skills of perception, discrimination, directionality, and coordination. Handwriting instruction is given to foster legibility, and to help make writing a more automatic and comfortable process. Therapists work closely with classroom teachers to ensure that our students are being appropriately challenged to maximize the generalization of skills mastered.
Students meet individually and in small groups for transitional and placement counseling.
Vocational skills are learned in real work settings, supported by job coaches, mentors, and individualized counseling and placement services. Students work on and off site, involved in both paying and non-paying positions, in areas that utilize their strengths. Our goal is not to train the individual in a specific skill, but through training, counseling, and education, to teach tolerance, respect, responsibility, time management, social skills, levels of independent functioning and the development of good work habits and attitudes. Our students take tremendous pride in their accomplishments and often develop a keener interest in the traditional high school studies after participating in our vocational program.