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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 retardation. 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.
Mark
Twain provides
services to students who have not been successful
in a general education program
because
of emotional problems. The goals of the program
are to help students develop academic skills and
modify
inappropriate school behaviors so they can return
to, and be successful in, their home school.
John
L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children - 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 mental retardation
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.
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