Instructional Services

Student Services / Special Education
Glossary of Special Education Programs and Services

 

Core Resource Program

    • serves a wide variety of students with mild to moderate learning problems in all exceptionality areas.

Educational Support Program (ES)

    • serves students with mild to moderate developmental disabilities and delays in their educational development.

Functional Life Skills Program (FLS)

    • serves students with moderate to severe developmental disabilities and delays in their educational development.

Intensive Support and Assessment Program (I.S.A.)

    • serves students with moderate to severe Learning Disabilities primarily in Grades 4 to 6.

Social Communication Program (SCP)

    • serves students with Autism or Pervasive Developmental Disorder.

Hearing Program and Services

    • serves students with mild to profound hearing loss with or without the use of hearing aids.

Vision Programs and Services

    • serves students with a significant loss of vision.

Program for Academic and Creative Extension (P.A.C.E.)

    • serves students who have been found to be intellectually advanced.

 Learning Strategies

    • serves students with communication exceptionalities, as well as other exceptional students, who would benefit from this intensive Core Resource support in grades 9‑11.

Language Support Centre

    • serves students with severe receptive and/or expressive language difficulties in Grades 1 ‑ 3.

Behaviour Resource Program and Services

    • provides a range of services and is available to all students.  This includes consultation to school staff and students, direct service to students, skill development groups for students, inservice to students, parents and Board staff.

    • the Tutorial Program in secondary schools serves students who have significant social and behavioural difficulties which have negative impacts on their learning.

Transition/Diagnostic Centre

    • serves students in the primary / junior / intermediate / senior divisions who, because of waiting lists, require crisis stabilization or interim support, while awaiting treatment.

Physical Management Services

    • serves students who have difficulties in the areas of fine motor, gross motor or sensory motor skills, in order to promote their independence in the regular school environment

    • supports students with physical needs that require adaptations to the physical environment of the school so that they can access the curriculum.

Psychological Services

    • Provides consultation, assessment or short‑term supportive intervention for students, and facilitation to community agency services.  Students are referred by school staff with parental/guardian/student consent.

Speech/Language Services

    • provides intervention through consultation and assessment for students with communication needs who are referred by school staff with the consent of parent(s)/guardian(s).

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