Our class serves children from  4 Year Old Kindergarten through Second Grade  with Autism.  The hours are 8:00 am to 2:00 pm, Monday through Friday (No class on Half Days).  During the school day the children work on their IEP Goals and Objectives and participate in age appropriate activities.    In this class we use the TEACCH Approach with a little bit of the High Scope Curriculum and Creative Curriculum.   The classroom is set up with Interest Centers.   These centers include Computer, Listening, Books, Writing, Construction, Community, Hands-On, Play, Housekeeping, Art, Sensory Table, Puzzles, and Group Time.  The students use schedule cards to move from centers and work sessions.  All students have two kinds of work sessions--Individual, and either Guided or Independent.  In the Individual Work Session, the student is taught new skills by the Lead Teacher.  In the Guided Work Sessions, the student is assisted when needed with newly mastered skills.    In the Independent Work Sessions, the student works without assistance on mastered skills so that he/she doesn't lose the skill.  Students work on developmental skills in the areas of fine motor, gross motor, social, self-help and cognitive.  Students  may also receive Speech, Occupational Therapy (OT), and  Physical Therapy (PT).  Students can be pulled out of the classroom for these services or served within the classroom.  First and Second Grade students can attend Special Areas (Art, Music, Library, Computer Lab, and PE or Adaptive PE) if deemed appropriate in their IEP's.

     Our school operates on the Year-Round Schedule and we attend class for 9 weeks and then we are off for a 3 week Intersession.  At the beginning of each 9 weeks, there will be a Review Period of one week to make sure the students have not lost skills during the break.  If it is evident that a student has lost skills and is unable to regain the skills within a 2-3 week period, that student will be eligible to receive Extended School Year Servises.