Department Contact:
TBD
Director
(682) 867-0800
ELEMENTARY
Elementary Alternate Curriculum is a service and support option on a continuum designed to meet the diverse needs of students with significant cognitive disabilities. Students access and participate in the grade-level Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) through activities that focus on prerequisite skills. The students demonstrate performance objectives that may include real life applications of the TEKS as appropriate to the students’ abilities and needs. The focus is on instruction and training in functional academic skills, communication skills, self help skills, motor skills, behavior skills and socialization skills. The components of this service place emphasis on preparation of students for independence in life skills for the transition to life outside the public school system.
Campuses
- Amos Elementary
- Beckham Elementary (ISPD only)
- Blanton Elementary
- Bryant Elementary
- Duff Elementary
- Hill Elementary (SS)
- Moore Elementary
- Remynse Elementary
- Sherrod Elementary
- Thornton Elementary
- Webb Elementary (ISPD only)
- Williams Elementary
ISPD = Individuals who have Severe and Profound Disabilities
SS = Social Skills Emphasis
SECONDARY
Secondary Alternate Curriculum is a service and support option on a continuum designed to meet the diverse needs of students with significant cognitive and adaptive disabilities. Students access and participate in the grade-level Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) through activities that focus on prerequisite skills. The students demonstrate performance objectives that may include real-life applications of the TEKS as appropriate to the students’ abilities and needs. The focus is instruction and training in functional academic skills, communication skills, personal management skills, independent living, community living, job sampling, work training and social skills. The components of this service place emphasis on preparation of students for independence in life skills for the transition to life outside the public school system.
Campuses
- Bowie High School
- Lamar High School
- Sam Houston High School
- Barnett Junior High
- Nichols Junior High
Services & Supports
- Child Find
- Records Request
- Resources
- Response to Intervention
- Section 504 and Dyslexia Services
- Services & Supports
- 18 PLUSS Services
- Academic & Behavior Learning Environment (ABLE)
- Adapted Physical Education
- Alternate Curriculum
- Assistive Technology
- Audiology Services
- Collaborative Teaching
- Deaf Education & Regional Day School Program for the Deaf
- Educational Diagnosticians
- Homebound Services
- In-Home and Parent Training Services
- Music Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities
- Psychological and Counseling Services
- Resource (Reading, Language Arts, & Math)
- Social, Emotional, and Academic Success (SEAS)
- Special Education Services
- Special Transportation
- Speech and Language Therapy Services
- Transition Services
- Vision Services
- Vocational Services
- Special Olympics