St' Augustine Special Education Department

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St. Augustine Special Education Department

• 2005-2006

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Our GoalTo create the most enabling learning
environment

• academic
• physical
• spiritual
• social
• emotional needs
• with appropriate support

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Inclusive Education

• All students have the opportunity to learn
  together in the same classrooms with the
  necessary modifications and accommodations in
  place to achieve success
• Co-operative decision making by parents,
  principal, resource team and teachers

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St. Augustines Student Support

• Psychological Services
• Behaviour Resource
• Speech and Language Services
• Occupational Therapy
• Attendance Officer

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Student Services Meetings

• Monthly or as needed
• To discuss students who are At Risk
• Problem solving
• Next steps
• Updates

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Student Services Meetings

• VP
• Psychologist
• Behaviour Resource Worker
• Guidance Dept Head
• Special Ed Dept Head
• Chaplaincy team member
• plus other involved Board staff teaching staff

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Special Education Department

• Learning Strategies/ Info Tech
• GLE Co-op
• Monitoring and Drop-In Centre
• Tutorial
• Functional Life Skills

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Learning Strategies/ Info Tech

• Angela Wheeldon and Mary Talamo
• De-semestered, Day 1/ Day 2
• Goal empower students to use Assistive
  Technology
• Kurzweil
• Word Q
• Dragon Naturally Speaking
• Inspiration

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Learning Strategies Co-op

• Piera Masci
• 2 credit co-op
• Assist with post secondary career options
• Communicates with employer the strengths and
  needs of each student

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Monitoring/ Drop-In Centre

• Lynn Hutchison, Angela Wheeldon, Maria Liberatore
• Drop-In Centre Open all day!
• Creation of IEP or Student Profile Sheet
• Liason between parents, teachers and students
• Monitoring student progress
• Assignment, test and exam assistance
• Responsible for yearly IPRCs
• Attends Student Services meetings

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Drop-In Centre Facts

• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• How?

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Tutorial

• Piera Masci
• Maria Liberatore
• Serves students who have social and behavioural
  difficulties which have negative impacts on their
  learning
• Individual courses
• ILC booklets

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Functional Life Skills/ Social Communication
Program

• Sam LaRosa
• Connie Mucci
• Lynne Oliphant
• Both students with Developmental Disabilities and
  are identified as Autistic/ PDD
• Numeracy, literacy, prevocational work
  activities, community training, life skills

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Role of the EA/ EI

• To provide support for students
• who have an approved ISA claim
• with specific complex needs

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Collaborative Approach

• Board personnel
• Administration
• Parents
• Students
• Classroom teacher
• Special Education teacher
• EAs and EIs

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To conclude

• Please remember that God created every one of us
  to be unique in our own way
• As teachers we try to use our God given talents
  to enable all our students to be successful