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Special Education Department
Special Education Campus Coordinator -
Stephanie Richardson
Special Education Secretary -Leslie
Burgess
Click on a
teacher's name to visit their Teacher Web
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Special Education Faculty |
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Content Mastery Center
(CMC) |
CMC
is open from
7:45 until 3:30 |
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The Content Mastery Program is a special education program designed to assist mainstreamed
students with their general education classes in a tutorial setting
while helping the students to learn their strengths and weaknesses and finding
ways to cope with the attributes while functioning in the classroom.
It is also aimed at supporting classroom teachers by assisting with
modifications and plans for CMC students. This program
unites the expertise of the regular and special educators to provide the
best educational approach for each child. |
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The goal of CMC is assist
students with assignments before they get behind in their work or have difficulty
with assignments. Each student receives modifications in
accordance with their individual needs. These might be enlarged
print, highlighted textbooks, modified tests, reading aloud the text,
pre-teaching vocabulary, word banks, or extra time on assignments. |
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Students may be sent to CMC during class time to work on independent work, receive reteach on a
difficult topic, use the computers, take modified tests, or receive
other modifications deemed appropriate according to their individual
needs. Students may also receive CMC help during Wednesday
study time in PE, during Advisory period, and before and after school. |
Lab
Class |
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A special education teacher in a
resource class setting instructs students with learning difficulties as
necessary when they are unable to achieve district mastery criteria in
regular, remedial, or modified classes in Reading, Language Arts,
Mathematics, Science, or Social Studies. |
Self-Contained
Class |
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A special education teacher in a
self-contained classroom instructs students with disabilities on a
full-day basis with students receiving all instruction from the special
education teacher or other related service personnel such as speech
therapists or occupational therapists. Integration from the
self-contained class into regular aspects of the school curriculum is made
available and achieved in accordance with individual student strengths or
needs. |
Regional
Day School Program for the Deaf |
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The Regional Day School Program for
the Deaf was created by Senate Bill 803 in 1975 in order to provide a
comprehensive program for the deaf/hard of hearing children throughout the
State of Texas. The program is a partnership between the State of
Texas and local school districts who may serve fiscal agents for the State
Deaf funds or belong to a cooperative consisting of several school
districts. Students are served from ages 0-21 years who have a
serious hearing loss even after corrective medical management which
impairs their ability to process linguistic information. |
Adapted
Physical Education |
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The adapted physical education
program has been designed to provide students with developmental
disabilities the opportunity to enhance the quality of life, community
living, and the recreational environment. The program promotes the
development of motor and related skills through a process in which the
unique needs of each student with a disability are determined by the
integration of appropriate assessment, programming, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation |
Alternative
Learning Environment (A.L.E.) |
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Speech
and Language Therapy |
Speech and Language Therapy is the
identification and /or language disorders. The program is designed
to provide speech and language services to students ages 3-21 who meet
specific eligibility criteria. Services are provided by licensed, or
TEA. certified speech-language pathologist who possesses a Master's
Degree. |
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