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Special Education

 

For more information about services and supports that are available to meet a broad range of student and family needs, visit the Special Education Department webpages or contact the school in your area or the Special Education Department at 774-4525.

Documents:

 

A Parents Guide to Special Education - Brochure [pdf]

 

A Parents Guide to Special Education - Manual [pdf]

 

WSD Policies: http://ww.wsd1.org/board/policies.htm

 

 

Special Education Programs

The Division offers a number of Special Education programs for students living within the Division. Access to these programs is through an established referral system.

The Special Education model provides for a range of student placements ranging from accommodation in regular programs, to very specialized settings, according to the unique learning needs of each individual child.

Essentially there are two types of placement within the Division for students with special education needs:

A.  Integrated Special Education Services

Integrated Special Education Services are designed to meet the special educational needs of students in their neighbourhood school by providing adapted, modified or individualized programming (see Individual Educational Planning). This may mean supplementary instructional services, special materials and/or equipment, adapted physical facilities and access to trained specialists in education and therapy.

B.  Special Education Programs

Special Education Programs are established throughout the Division to meet the needs of students for whom the intensity of service required cannot be provided in their home school. This may occur when a school does not have sufficient numbers of students to provide a very specialized program to meet a student’s intensive learning and/or physical needs. Referral to a Special Education Program is based on severity of the need and intensity of programming required. 

Some of these programs are self-contained. These low enrolment programs have a smaller student/teacher ratio than a regular classroom.

Low Enrolment Programs

To be considered for a low enrolment program the school team, including the parent,  must agree that the student meets several of the following criteria:

• The student requires a specialized program which is only available on a Division-wide basis;
• The student needs intensive, multiple resources;
• The student requires an unusually high amount of structure and individual supervision;
• A large group setting, even when geared for multi-level instruction, impedes achievement of the goals in the student’s individual education plan;
• The school’s efforts to program for the student in a mainstream setting have not been successful;
• The student demonstrates the need for frequent adult feedback and frequent reinforcement;
• The student requires a learning environment with reduced stimulation.

Program Descriptors

 

Programs for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Some students with significant cognitive disabilities are included in regular classrooms within neighbourhood schools.

Some students with significant cognitive disabilities are served in low enrolment programs.  These include: Special Education Centres, Life Skills Programs and Autism Centres.

Special Education Centres

These centres are designed for students between the ages of 6 and 21 who have a mild mental disability and who require more supports than are available in their neighbourhood school. These students are unable to function successfully in a regular classroom, but are not physically aggressive. The goal of the program is to provide a modified academic curriculum and for students to make gains in communication, social skills and self-management skills. At the secondary level, the additional goals are to include development in pre-vocational/vocational skills and consumer skills.

Locations of Programs:

Primary	Intermediate	Junior High	Secondary
Faraday	Cecil Rhodes	Cecil Rhodes	Churchill
Principal Sparling	Faraday	Churchill	Daniel McIntyre
Strathcona	George V	Elmwood	R.B. Russell
	Isaac Brock	General Wolfe	Sisler
	Lord Nelson	Gordon Bell	St. John’s
	Luxton	Hugh John Macdonald
	Principal Sparling	Isaac Newton
		St. John’s

Life Skills Programs

These programs are designed for students who have a moderate mental disability and are between the ages of 6 and 21. The students may also have one or more of the following disabilities/disorders: communication, physical or behaviour. 

The goals of the program are to provide an individualized curriculum in functional academics, communication, self-management, social skill development, motor skills (physical), community awareness, leisure/recreation and pre-employment skills.

Locations of Programs:

Elementary	Secondary
Mulvey	Andrew Mynarski
Robertson	Churchill
	Daniel McIntyre
	Elmwood
	Gordon Bell
	Grant Park
	Hugh John Macdonald
	Kelvin
	Sisler
	St. John’s

Programs for Children with Language Disorders

            The Early Childhood Language Centre (ECLC)

            The Primary Language Centres (PLC)

            The Intermediate Language Centres (ILC).

These low enrolment programs are designed for students between the ages of 5 and 12 who have been diagnosed with severe language disorders and who require more intensive supports in academics and language development than is available in the regular classroom. 

ECLC is a one year kindergarten program. Students attend ECLC half days and their home school kindergarten the other half day. Parents are encouraged to participate in the school/home program.

The PLCs (Grades 1-4) are low enrollment, activity based classrooms.  Students integrate into regular classrooms as much as possible. The PLC at Dufferin is a half-day program. Children attend Dufferin one half-day and their home school for the other half-day for one year only.

The ILC (Grades 3-6) students receive small group instruction for part of the day and are integrated into regular classrooms for part of the day.

Locations of Programs:

Early Childhood	Primary	Intermediate
Dufferin	Dufferin	Clifton
	Gladstone	Prairie Rose
	Isaac Brock
	Tyndall Park

Adaptive Skills Programs

Adaptive Skills Programs are designed for students between the ages of 4 and 21 who have multiple disabilities or are medically fragile and/or have a significant cognitive disability paired with one or more of the following disabilities:

• Communication
• Physical
• Behavioural
• Functional

The goal of the programs is to provide either Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth curriculum with adaptations or a modified or an individualized curriculum as is appropriate to the student’s potential in the following skill areas: academics, self-management, social/emotional, communication, pre-employment, leisure/recreation, community awareness and motor (physical).

Locations of Programs:

Elementary	Junior High	Secondary
Lord Roberts	Andrew Mynarski	Grant Park
Prairie Rose		Gordon Bell
Norquay		Churchill
Inkster		Sisler
Greenway		Elmwood
Wolseley

Programs for Children with Autism

Autism Programs are designed for students who are between the ages of 6 and 12 and have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. These students have one or more of the following disabilities/disorders:

• Communication
• Social skills
• Behavioural
• Functional skills
• Cognitive functioning

The goal of these programs is to assist the students achieving success in academics, communication, self-management, social skills, physical skills, leisure skills and community skills to the level of their potential, through individualized programming.

Locations of Programs:

Elementary	Junior High	Secondary
Inkster	Grant Park	Grant Park
Montrose
Robertson
Greenway

Programs for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Programs for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing are designed for students between the ages of 5 and 21 who have a diagnosis of bilateral hearing loss of a moderate or greater degree in the better ear or who have a severe academic deficit or a severe language delay attributable to that loss. These students require instruction in one of the following modes:

• Oral but requiring intensive supports
• Oral with American Sign Language (ASL)
• ASL as a primary mode in an oral environment

The goals of the programs are to develop optimal academic, communication, self-management, social, pre-employment skills and community awareness skills.  Students are fully integrated.

Locations of Programs:

Kindergarten	Junior High	Senior High
Grosvenor	River Heights	Kelvin
J.B. Mitchell

 

Programs for Students with Very Severe to Profound Emotional/Behavioural Disorders

Learning Assistance Centres

 

Learning Assistance Centres (LACs) are designed for students who are in Grades 1-12 and who have severe emotional or behavioural disorders (EBD). Some of these students exhibit behaviour that requires intensive support and intervention. Students also possess mild mental handicaps.

The major goal of the programs is to help the students develop the social, self-management, self-control and problem-solving skills that are necessary to re-integrate into the regular classroom and community. Some of the students may also have a modified academic curriculum.

Locations of Programs:

Early Years	Intermediate/Middle Years	Secondary
Garden Grove (EYBC)	Andrew Mynarski	Churchill
Early Grey	Faraday	Elmwood (LAC & MYS)
Isaac Brock	J.M. King (2)	Grant Park (MYS)
Mulvey	Greenway	Gordon Bell
Pinkham (ECBTP)	Isaac Brock (2)	Hugh John Macdonald
William Whyte	Kent Road	Isaac Newton (2)
Niji Mahkwa	Lord Nelson	R.B. Russell (2)
Weston	Luxton	River Heights
Tyndall Park	Machray	St. John’s
	Rockwood	Shaughnessy Park
	Strathcona	Technical Vocational
	Victoria-Albert

Treatment and Academic Program (TAP)

Treatment and Academic Program is designed for students between the ages of 7 and 9 (Grades 2-4) who show characteristics of, or are diagnosed with severe or complex biochemical/organic or psychiatric disorders. These students display intense emotional responses consistent with these disorders and require a school program with a therapeutic component.

The goal of this program is to provide adapted or modified academic curriculum as appropriate to the student and to assist each student in gaining the behavioural, emotional and social skills that would help the student be successful in the regular classroom.

Location of Program:  Tyndall Park

Programs for Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

These programs are designed for students who have severe emotional/behavioural difficulties as a result of FASD. They require a self-contained classroom which has a smaller student teacher ratio, that is very structured and has limited environmental stimuli.

The goal of the programs is to provide specialized teaching strategies and adaptation to environment and assessment. Students receive support in developing appropriate social, self-management and problem-solving skills.

Locations of Programs:

Elementary	Junior High
David Livingstone (Grades 1-5) Bridges Program	David Livingstone (Grades 6-8)
Shaughnessy Park (Grades 1-6) Right Program	Shaughnessy Park (Grades 7-8)

 

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