"A member of your learning team"
REACH is a multidisciplinary team that provides assessment, consultation and in-services to address the educational needs of children and students throughout southern Alberta who have severe learning needs.
> Outcomes
REACH is committed to…...
Providing an effective and efficient educational support service that is designed to facilitate student access to and participation in their learning environment.
- provide specialized resources and services that facilitate student participation in the learning environment
- assist schools in developing and implementing comprehensive educational programs for students
- develop understanding and knowledge of individual student needs
- work collaboratively with the learning team to identify factors affecting learning and to identify accommodations that will support the student in the educational process
- identify programming goals and objectives that can be integrated into the daily classroom routine
- work collaboratively with the learning team in the implementation and monitoring of individual and group programs
- be a resource regarding current developments and trends in service to students with severe learning needs.
REACH educational support services for students…...
- aged 2.5 to 20 years
- in a school or ECS program
- meeting the criteria for the following Alberta Education exceptional student codes and requiring the support of a multidisciplinary team.
- 41 Severe Cognitive Disability
- 43 Severe Multiple Disability
- 44 Severe Physical or Medical Disability – including Autism
- 45 Deafness
- 46 Blindness
- 47 Severe Delay Involving Language *
- 55 Hearing Disability
- 56 Visual Disability
* REACH services are not available for ECS children with a severe delay involving language (code 47) unless there is evidence that the child has severe special needs that are not reflected by the current code. A child requiring an augmentative communication system or the support of a multidisciplinary team would be considered for REACH support.
Code 42 Severe Emotional/Behavioural are not eligible for REACH Services.
Services Provided
- Assessment: to determine a student’s strengths and areas of need for educational programming purposes.
- Planning Conference: to share assessment findings with all team members (teachers, parents, community agencies). Recommendations are reviewed and a plan of action identified.
- Consultation: to provide support to schools by teaming collaboratively to develop programs, to make curricular modifications, to provide materials, to identify equipment needs or environmental modifications, and to model teaching strategies.
- In-service: to provide information on a wide range of topics that will support schools in providing appropriate learning opportunities and experiences for students.
- Determination and implementation of assistive technology needs.
- Support to facilitate inclusion.
- Support in Individual Program Plan development.
- Connections with community supports/resources.
- Transition planning.
Outcomes
For Students:
- improved students’ access to the learning environment
- improved students’ participation in the learning environment
- improved student learning
For School Staff Members:
- increased knowledge about ways of meeting the needs of students with severe learning needs
- improved ability to develop and implement comprehensive educational programs for students with severe learning needs.
For Parents:
- increased parents’ knowledge about needs of their child in an educational context
- increased parents’ ability to support their child’s educational goals.
August 26, 2008
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