Helps students who are deaf or hard of hearing improve their communication skills. Students who are deaf or hard of hearing, and attend either general or special education classes, receive HES related services on a weekly basis.

Hearing Education Services are provided by licensed teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and student goals may focus on auditory training, language development, self-advocacy skills, or speech-reading. Additionally, HES teachers provide academic support using a variety of techniques based on the individual needs of students.

Work during HES sessions is driven by the results of the Ling Six-Sound Test, Compass Test of Auditory Discrimination, Listening Inventory for Education (LIFE-R), Screening Instrument for Targeting Educational Risk in Secondary Students (Secondary SIFTER), as well as feedback from classroom teachers or the self-reported needs of students.

HES teachers and Educational Audiologists also provide instruction in the use and care of hearing aids, as well as other Hearing Assistive Technology/HAT (formerly FM unit). Close contact with general education teachers, special education teachers, and parents is maintained to support the instructional needs of students with hearing loss.

Provides educational vision instruction in Braille, assistive technology, and compensatory techniques. Assist students to gain full and equal access to the student’s curricula that is IEP driven. The TVI works closely with the student’s school, teachers and related services providers to ensure the student gains the highest level of independence

Occupational therapy is designed to maintain, improve, or restore function of students in all education-related activities, including neuro-musculoskeletal function; motor function including fine motor, oral motor, and visual motor integration; sensory and perceptual function; cognitive, and psychosocial function. Activities emphasize independence in daily living skills and school participation in various settings.

Speech and language therapy is a mandated related service provided to students who have difficulties with comprehension, verbal expression, reading, writing, and critical thinking skills which interfere with their academic achievement. A student must be evaluated and approved through the Department of Education, after which a mandate (location/group size/duration) as well as individualized therapy goals are added to the student’s IEP. Intervention is provided in the classroom and/or a separate location to best meet the student’s needs and goals. Therapists work collaboratively with teachers to model and instruct how to implement recommended accommodations and modifications in order to improve communication within the classroom.

Physical therapy emphasizes physical function of gross motor skills and independence in different settings. Physical therapists increase a student’s ability to participate in various school functions by remediating or compensating for musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, or cardiopulmonary impairments. Physical therapists employ various techniques including addressing deficits in body structure and function, suggesting adaptations to physical tasks, recommending assistive devices, and adapting the environment.

Orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction enables blind and low vision students to learn safe and purposeful travel.
O&M training is designed to improve the student's grasp of spatial and environmental concepts and use of information received by the senses for negotiating travel. We teach the use of low vision aids and/or the long cane to supplement visual travel skills for navigating the environment.