Focus on the Future A Total Communications Approach

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Focus on the FutureA Total Communications
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• Our Philosophy
• Each child is a unique individual who needs a
  secure, caring, and stimulating environment in
  which to grow and mature emotionally,
  intellectually, physically, and socially .

LeoNora M. Cohen Judy Gelbrich
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Focus on the FutureA Total Communications
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• Our Motto

If children dont learn the way we teach
them, Then we must teach them the way they learn.
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Focus on the Future A Total Communications
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• Our Beliefs
• We believe that each and every student should be
  given the opportunity to grow, develop, and learn
  in his/her own unique way.
• We believe that our students can become
  productive members of our community by using
  strategies that cater to their individual
  learning styles.
• We believe that each and every individual
  presents a unique type of student that varies not
  only in abilities, but also in learning styles.
• We believe each and every student has the
  potential to bring something unique and special
  into our world.
• We believe that in order to help our students
  learn, there must be a unified and
  multidisciplinary approach to teaching.
• We believe that direct individualization of
  skills is the key to independence.
• We believe our children have innate abilities to
  receive and process information.

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• Our Goal
• To help each and every student become an
  independent and productive member of society.

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• Hours of operation 900 am 400pm
• Before school care hours 730 am 900am
• After school care hours 400 pm
  630pm
• Summer Program 900 am 400pm

Extra Fee for before/after school care
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• Centers Layout
• -Eight classroom areas -Reading, Writing, Math,
  Art,
• -Speech classroom
• -Occupational therapy classroom
• -Vocational training classroom
• -Quiet area
• -Computer lab
• -Kitchen area
• -Cafeteria
• -Physical Education area
• -Sensory room
• -Recreation room
• -Teachers launch
• -Work room

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• Age and Grade Levels
• Kindergarten Level Age 5 Kindergarten
• Primary Level Ages 6-8 1st 3rd
• Pre-Intermediate Level Ages 9-11 4th 6th
• Post-Intermediate Level Ages 12-14 7th 9th
• Pre-Transition Level Ages 15-18 10th 12th
• Transition Level Ages 19-21 Transition

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Focus on the FutureA Total Communications
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• Our Approach
• The implementation of a multidisciplinary and
  individualized program
• based on the students learning styles.

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Focus on the FutureA Total Communications
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• Our Approach
• ABA
• Structured Teaching
• Total Communication Environments
• Incidental Teaching
• Visual Strategies
• Visual Organization Techniques
• Social Stories
• Sensory Integration Strategies
• Music Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Therapy
• Community-Referenced Based Instruction
• Functional Independence Training

To meet our students at their current point of
dependence and transform them to their highest
degree of independence through the use of
Individualized instruction consisting of
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• Objectives
• 1. Self-Management and Home Living
• To use Individualized instruction in direct
  preparation for the activities of daily living
  such as
• Self-Help skills
• Eating and food preparation
• Hygiene and toileting
• Safety and Health
• Assisting and Taking Care of Others
• Budgeting/Planning/Scheduling
• Household maintenance
• Outdoor Maintenance
• Communication skills
• Home management Skills.
• Cooking skills

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• Objectives
• 2. General Community Functioning
• To use Individualized and group
  instruction in community-referenced skills such
  as
• Grocery Shopping Skills
• Social Skills
• Communication Skills
• Travel
• Community Safety
• Functional/Higher Reading Skills
• Functional/Higher Consumer Mathematics
• Functional/Higher Language Arts Skills
• Functional/Higher Writing Skills
• General Shopping
• Eating Out
• Using Services

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• Objectives
• 3. Academics
• Individualized and group instruction in
  functional and higher academic skills such as
• Mathematics
• Reading
• Writing
• Language Arts
• Communication

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• Academics/Reading
• Reading of sight words
  Meaningful and relevancy
• Grouping sight words
  Forming meaningful sentences
• Comprehension
  Meaning to the environment
• Consistent usage of
  learned reading skills in communication

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• Academics/Language Arts
• Listening Increase attention span
• Speaking Communicate ideas
• Reading
  Sight/Comprehension
• Writing Relevant information

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Focus on the FutureTotal Communications Approach

• Academics/Mathematics
• Numeration
• Reasoning
• Time
• Money
• Geometry

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• Objectives
• 4. Vocational
• Individualized instruction in the area
  of vocational preparations through the use of
• Classroom/school jobs experiences
• Individualized work experiences
• Community Base Vocational Instruction
• Community Jobs
• Neighborhood Jobs
• Computer training
• Career guidance based on
• students talents.

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• Objective
• 5. Home Living Domain
• Individualized and group instruction in the area
  of self/home maintenance
• Eating
• Food preparation
• Grooming and dressing
• Hygiene and toileting
• Safety and health
• Assisting and caring for others
• Budgeting
• Planning
• Scheduling
• House maintenance

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• Objectives
• 6.Recreation/Leisure
• Individual and group instruction in the
  area of social, recreation, and leisure through
  the use of
• School and extracurricular activities
• Alone-home and in the neighborhood
• Family/friends-home and in the neighborhood
• Family/friends-community
• Physical fitness
• Play based approach
• Social Communication

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• Sample Schedule/Marie G.
• __Reading
• ___Speech
• ___Writing/Language Arts
• 
  ___Occupational Therapy
• ___Math
• ___Art
• ___Cooking Skills
• ___Home Maintenance
• ___Self-Help Skills

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• Goals and areas of focus
• Individualized/Specialized academics
• Eating and food preparation
• Grooming and dressing
• Hygiene and toileting
• Safety and health
• Household Maintenance
• Outdoor Maintenance
• Assisting and taking care of others
• Budgeting and planning
• Scheduling
• Communication
• Social Skills
• Play Skills
• Music appreciation/therapy
• Speech therapy
• Physical Education

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