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Special Schools

Carl Sandburg provides instruction for students with learning disabilities and focuses on helping each student compensate for and/or remediate learning problems in a variety of ways. Depending on the severity of the disability, elementary students (Grades K-5) are enrolled in school-based elementary learning centers of the Carl Sandburg Center.

Stephen Knolls is a special center for students three to twenty one years of age with severe to profound disabilities and/or intellectual disability. Staff help students maximize their potential by building on strengths. Students receive instruction to develop skills in areas of academics, communication, mobility, self- help, socialization and job preparation.

John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents- RICA is a joint program of MCPS and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The program serves children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances. The goal of the RICA program is to identify, treat, and return students to an appropriate family, community, and academic or vocational setting as soon as possible.

Rock Terrace serves children with multiple disabilities from Grade 6 age through age 21. The primary disabling condition is either mild intellectual disability or a severe specific learning disability. Additional conditions contributing to the need for a structured separate facility include speech and language disorders, emotional problems, seizure and other medical conditions and physical disabilities. Instruction focuses on maximizing independence through a planned progression of academic and work activities. Specialized services help college bound students with disabilities make a successful transition from high school to college.

Longview is a special center that services students K through ages twenty one with severe to profound disabilities and/or intellectual disability. Staff help students maximize their potential by building on strengths. Students receive instruction to develop skills in areas of academics, communication, mobility, self- help, socialization and job preparation.

 

Updated February 23, 2010| Maintained by Speri Silverman

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