In addition, curriculum personnel are charged with the responsibility of developing specific curricula to meet the needs of our student body. We have made significant strides in creating meaningful curricula in the areas of language development, social skills training, teaching chumash, and life skills in Judaic studies. Extracurricular Activities Special needs students benefit from structured settings in which to implement trained socialization skills, as well as to pursue their particular interest and talents. Formal guidance is provided to all students who might exhibit immature social cognition, impulsivity, limited attention, or poor organizational skills. Counseling is provided on an individual and group basis by school psychologists, social workers, and guidance counselors.
Therapeutic intervention focuses on phonemic awareness, articulation, pragmatics and communication.
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.