Student Accessibility Services

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  The ACCESS/Transition Program

  The ACCESS/Transition Program (Accessing Community, Careers, and Education through Successful Self-Determination) provides students with individualized support for academic and practical skills. The program focuses on areas of functional academics, self-care, daily living skills, independent living, community access, and employment placement and training. Social competencies, including relationship building, perspective taking, and emotional regulation are explicitly taught and embedded throughout daily instruction. By making specialized instruction available to students in every environment, the program balances the educational and extra-curricular opportunities at Burr and Burton with the necessary skills for students to become independent adults and contributing members of the Northshire region. 
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  The Learning Center

  The Learning Center offers support for students on an IEP who require direct instruction to meet the academic, social, emotional, and organizational expectations of regular education classes. Direct instruction is provided, through the Study Skills course, in the basic skill areas of need identified through the IEP process. Basic skill areas could include: oral expression, listening comprehension, written expression, basic reading skills, reading comprehension, mathematics calculation, mathematics reasoning, motor skills, and functional skills. As Vermont-licensed special educators, learning specialists who staff the learning center help students to: identify and understand their learning challenges; provide remediation in the areas of need; tutor in the content areas; teach specific basic skills; support organizational skill development and self-advocacy; collaborate with the students’ classroom teachers, and help students develop strategies to manage behavior and social expectations.