The Early Childhood Special Education Program serves children from 2-5 years of age. Programs for children who have mild, moderate or severe mental retardation are available. These particular students exhibit significantly subaverage intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. In these programs, the children learn to deal with the social as well as academic skills necessary to function in the regular school setting and in the community. Occupational and physical therapy are available for students who have physical disabilities involving small and large motor skills which adversely affect educational performance.
Services are available for children with autism.
These children may exhibit disturbances of developmental rates, responses to sensory stimuli, speech, language and cognitive capacities, and capacities to relate to people, events or objects. Children who have experienced a traumatic brain injury and in need of special education services have impairments that adversely affect educational performance due to external physical force or an internal occurance. Other children may require special education services as a result of having limited strength, vitality or alertness due to chronic or acute health problems which adversely affect educational performance. Programs are available to meet their individualized needs in a variety of educational settings.