Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School
Special Education
- Special education services are provided for students with an IEP in both pull-out and push-in environments.
- Multi-age classrooms allow for more fluent groupings when working with students with IEP’s.
- IEP’s are written to meet the child where they are at so they can reach their full potential
- IEP’s are developed by assessing student needs to support the child where they are at in their learning
- Students receive specially designed instruction based on their disability related needs in some or all of the following areas:
- Academic Skills: reading, writing, math
- Social-Emotional Skills: emotional-regulation, perspective taking, flexible thinking
- Functional Skills: life skills, vocational skills, self-care skills
- Executive Functioning Skills: task initiation, working memory, self-regulation, attention and focus, planning and organization, time management, goal setting
- Speech-language therapy is part of special education provided by a speech-language pathologist.
- Students attend therapy in one-on-one or small group sessions to focus on their individual needs.
- Speech therapy
- articulation - speech sounds
- phonology - patterns of speech sounds
- fluency - stuttering
- Language therapy
- expressive language - speaking and writing thoughts
- receptive language -understanding while listening and reading
- social communication - perspective taking, emotional competence, inferencing, executive functions, etc.