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Special Education Newsletters
February 2009
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This section of the web site contains information about our Special Education programs and our Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC). All children are special and they are all capable of learning. Yet they do not develop and learn at the same rate. Each child has their own individual learning needs. Most students with special needs are able to succeed in the regular classroom; some, however, need specialized support to achieve this goal. Occasionally, some pupils need the support of specialized programs and services which are offered at neighbourhood schools, in another school or in another location.
To help ensure that these needs are met, Thames Valley offers various Special Education programs ranging from additional support offered to students in home school (often through "itinerant" programs where travelling specialists provide additional support to students at their home school) to special self-contained or "congregated" classes that provide a higher level of intensive support to the student.
In all, we provide programs and services for about 19,000 special needs students. About 50% of these students have been identified as exceptional through the provincially-governed Identification, Placement and Review Committee (IRPC) process. We recognize that the need for Special Education services in our District is greater than in some other parts of the province, in part, because the high quality of local children’s health and education services attracts parents with special needs children to our area.
March 07, 2009
