Life Skills
Our life skills program is a unique environment where students can develop their daily living skills. The "apartment" includes a kitchen, laundry room, and living and sleeping areas. In the kitchen students learn to organize a kitchen, create/follow recipes, prepare food safely, and clean the kitchen. In the laundry area they learn how to utilize equipment, wash laundry, and fold a variety of clothing. In the living and dining area they learn how to maintain a welcoming living environment, socialize with others, and keep the area clean. In the sleeping area they learn how to change linens and make a bed.
Sensory Area
Our state of the art sensory area is an excellent quiet environment for students to manage sensory concerns. The room is equipped with a large ball pit, swing, music, and a wide array of sensory materials to support the student. The sensory room is used as a tool to assist students experiencing a sensory issue, it is never utilized as a consequence for behavior.
Corrective Reading
Corrective Reading is a research based, and proven reading intervention program that supports students in grades 3-8 who are reading below grade level. Based on assessment students are placed in a cohort of readers, and they progress towards mastery in decoding, fluency, and comprehension. Students who participate in Corrective Reading tend to show improvement by one to two grade levels per a year (Long, 2014).
Long, Kate, "Effects of Corrective Reading Decoding on the Reading Fluency Skills of Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities" (2014). Specialist in Education Degree (Ed.S.) Theses. Paper 5.