St. Augustine Special Education Department

Our Goal: To create the most enabling learning environment academic physical spiritual social emotional needs – with appropriate support

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

St. Augustine’s Student Support Psychological Services Behaviour Resource Speech and Language Services Occupational Therapy Attendance Officer

Student Services Meetings Monthly or as needed To discuss students who are “At Risk” Problem solving Next steps Updates

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

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

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

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

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

Drop-In Centre Facts Who? What? When? Where? How?

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

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

Role of the EA/ EI To provide support for students: – who have an approved ISA claim – with specific complex needs

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

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