Special Needs Program
Cleary School for the Deaf provides services for children with additional challenges and hearing loss. In a small student-to-staff ratio classroom, each child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) is explicitly embedded into the curriculum in both small and individual learning opportunities.
Cleary’s program focuses on every child’s individual language development using multiple modalities such as Listening and spoken language, ASL, signed English, augmentative and alternative communication devices. The program is designed to prepare our students for future independence.
We Offer:
- Teachers Certified in Deaf or Special Educators trained in hearing loss
- Modified New York State Curriculum
- Goal Oriented Tasks based on IEP Guidelines
- Daily opportunities for individualized instruction if needed.
- Language Development facilitated through the communication modalities and needs of each individual child
- Adaptive equipment and furniture to meet physical needs.
- Summer School Program
- Occupational and Physical Therapy.
- Individual Speech and Language Instruction
- Life skills instruction
- Pre-vocational Training in the secondary programming
- Inter-disciplinary evaluations and team meetings
- Family centered approach
- Coordination of visits and services for consulting specialists