What P.53K Offers

School Year 2022-2023

Counseling

These services are designed to improve social and emotional functioning in the areas of appropriate school behavior, discipline, self-control, conflict resolution for students experiencing difficulty interacting appropriately with adults or peers, withdrawal or acting out, low self-esteem or poor coping skills which significantly interfere with learning. If, due to the unique needs of the student, the student requires services from particular services from particular provider (e.g. guidance counselor, school psychologist, or social worker), the IEP must indicate this.

Hearing Education Services:

These services are designed to provideinstruction in speech, reading, auditory training, and language development to enhance growth of receptive/expressive communication skills.

Speech/language Therapy:

These services are designed to address deficits in a student's auditory processing (the way they understand sounds and language), articulation/phonological skills, comprehension, and use of syntax, pragmatics, voice production, and fluency.

Occupational Therapy:

These services are designed to the planning and use of a program of purposeful activities designed to maintain, improve or restore adaptive and functional skills including, fine motor skills, oral motor skills, etc. in all educationally related activities.

Physical Therapy:

These services are designed to use activities to improve, or restore, function, including gross motor development, ambulation, balance, and coordination in various settings, including but not limited to, the classroom, gym, bathroom, playground, staircase, and transitions between classes.

School Health Services:

These services are designed to be provided by a school nurse or paraprofessional to address the specific health needs of a student as documented by the child's physician to ensure a safe educational environment.

Education Vision Services:

These services are designed to provide specialized services for students who are blind and visually impaired, in preparation for independent functioning in school and the larger community. EVS programs are designed for children whose visual impairment limits the ability to learn without assistive materials and adaptive approaches.