General Education In District Elementary Special Education Classes

General Education In District Elementary Special Education Classes In District Middle School Inclusion Special Education Classes In District High School Jesse Kaplan School Special Education Classes Students ages 5– 21 with developmental disabilities. Academic Intervention Program/ General Equivalency Program Birchwood School Special day setting for students with emotional behavioral and learning problem Hilltop Elementary Intensive Day Treatment For students in acute crisis Other Special Education Options

General Education Click on school name to enter school website Ten Elementary Schools One Middle School Felix Festa MS Campus (FFMS) Bardonia Elementary School Congers Elementary School Lakewood Elementary School Laurel Plains Elementary School Link Elementary School attended is determine by geographic location Little Tor Elementary School New City Elementary School Two High Schools Strawtown Elementary School Clarkstown HS North (NHS) West Nyack Elementary School Clarkstown HS South (SHS) Woodglen Elementary School HOME

Birchwood Program HOME The Birchwood School is a day school providing education using therapeutic milieu. The school provides a highly structured and individualized school program of remediation and therapeutic rehabilitation. The Birchwood School is for students ages five through twenty-one, whose disabilities require a special educational setting and related services to meet their unique management, academic, physical and social needs. Birchwood creates a supportive, reassuring environment for school-aged children having significant emotional, behavioral and learning problems. It provides an environment which responds to a child's needs with compassion, understanding and guidance. The school provides a psychotherapeutic approach for the child both in school and at home. At Birchwood, students have the opportunity to succeed by allowing them to proceed at their own rate. Students know they can turn to caring people for help in dealing with the many challenges they will meet in their everyday lives within their home, school and community. The Birchwood program has a fully accredited staff of specialists in both clinical and special education disciplines who work to effectively integrate educational and clinical services. Birchwood's goal is to prepare students to return to an appropriate program provided by their home school district. Tuition for students attending Birchwood is paid for by their home school districts.

Consultant Teacher Designed for students who require limited special education. A special education teacher works with the student for a minimum for 2 hours per week. Through collaboration with general education teachers and other professional the consulting teacher assists the student’s learning in a general education setting Inclusion Co teaching A special education and a general education teacher share responsibility for instruction of all students in a general education classroom. Educating special education students in a general education setting with guidance from the student’s IEP HOME Resource is for students who require supplemental instruction from a special education teacher. Resource provides a minimum of three hours of supplemental instruction per week.

Multiple Disabled Consortium Class Special education classes for students with multiple disabilities In District Elementary Special Education Classes Students with Autism Classes Special education classes designed for students who require intensive services which are incorporated into the classroom. Students in this program take the NY State Alternative Assessment Cross Categorical Classes Special education classes for students who require more intensive services than resource room HOME

Diploma Bound Special Education Class For students who require more intensive services than resource room and are diploma bound In District Middle School Special Education Classes Spirit Program Standards Preparation Instruction Responsibility Independence Transition For developmentally disabled students who take the NY State Alternative Assessment (NYSAA) Prescriptive Education Class For non-NYSAA students with learning, social, emotional and behavioral needs that significantly impact on academic functioning and progress HOME

Diploma Bound Special Education Class For students who require more intensive services than resource room and are diploma bound In District High School Special Education Classes Spirit Program Standards Preparation Instruction Responsibility Independence Transition For developmentally disabled students who take the NY State Alternative Assessment (NYSAA) Prescriptive Education Class For non-NYSAA students with learning, social, emotional and behavioral needs that significantly impact on academic functioning and progress HOME

Jesse J Kaplan School West Nyack, NY Rockland BOCES Special Education Division 845. 627. 4790 / www. rocklandboces. org This program serves students with cognitive and multiple disabilities ages 5– 21. Students may require nursing and multiple therapeutic interventions. An extensive Community Vocational Program is part of the curricula as is a rich augmentative communication support service. Language development and community based instruction support student development of their fullest potential. In addition, intensive ABA and TEACCH methodologies are employed. Related services are offered as part of the program and IEP. HOME

Rockland BOCES Special Education Division 845. 627. 4790 / www. rocklandboces. org Elementary IDT Intensive Day Treatment Hilltop Elementary Nyack, NY This program is a collaborative with Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. Services are provided for classified and non-classified students, grades K– 5, experiencing an acute crisis. School and mental health issues are focused on in an integrated 60 -day diagnostic/intensive support setting. The intent is to stabilize the student and return him/her to their home district. Teams consist of a teacher, teaching assistant, psychiatric social worker, psychiatrist and support staff. HOME

AIP/GED Academic Intervention Program/General Equivalency Diploma BOCES main campus, West Nyack This collaborative with the Career Education Division provides academic support to special education students working toward their equivalency diploma. 15– 1 intensive 2. 5 hour academic program with a focus on reading/math. Students also participate in a Diversified Work Program— Work-Based Learning Center or Career Education option. AIP is a prep course for GED students. HOME

Rockland BOCES 845. 627. 4790 / www. rocklandboces. org Elementary IDT–Intensive Day Treatment Hilltop Elementary at St. Ann’s in Nyack This program is a collaborative with Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. Services are provided for classified and non-classified students, grades K– 5, experiencing an acute crisis. School and mental health issues are focused on in an integrated 60 -day diagnostic/intensive support setting. The intent is to stabilize the student and return him/her to their home district. Teams consist of a teacher, teaching assistant, psychiatric social worker, psychiatrist and support staff. The program serves students with developmental and behavioral delays grades 4– 5 with a language-based curricula, mainstreaming or integrative opportunities, as needed. Student-staff ratio is 8– 1– 2. HOME

HOME Clarkstown Central School District is committed to provide appropriate education for all students in the least restrictive environment. Occasionally a student’s needs can not be met by district or BOCES programs. In these cases the director of special education will work with the student and family to locate an appropriate residential or day treatment program outside of Rockland County