Program Descriptors
Early Intervention Special Day Classes Toddler Program (California Early Start) Provides family focused services in natural environments for children, from birth to three years old, having some combination of identified disabling conditions, including all students identified as solely low incidence. Center-based program provided as appropriate through the Early Head Start Program.
Pre-School Program Provides early intervention for three to five year-old students with some combination of identified disabling conditions. As appropriate, students participate in activities with same age, non-handicapped peers.
Preschool Inclusion Program in Head Start Provides special interventions for pre-school disabled students who benefit from placement in the Head Start classes at McFall School.
K-12 Special Day Classes
Autism Preschool Classes Utilizing a discrete trial format for delivery of instruction and early behavior intervention at home and in school and/or home based. San Joaquin Central Valley Matrix of Programs for Autism
Autism K-12 Classes The continuem continues with classes that offer individual programming using methodologies such as discrete trial, TEACCH and picture exchange systems in a functionally based curriculum. Classes use community based instruction, as well as integration into general education.
Behavior Transition /Emotionally Disturbed Classes provide varying levels of counseling services from high level out-patient services to school-based counseling weekly. Classes are designed as an educational environment, in which each student acquires the necessary emotional understanding and academic skills. The academic curriculum is individually designed within the general education standards-based curriculum.
Adolescent Day Treatment Provides services to middle school and high school students who have serious emotional needs and who benefit from placement on a general education campus. The program is a collaborative effort between San Joaquin County Office of Education and S.J.C. Children's Mental Health. It serves 3 SELPAS: San Joaquin County, Lodi, and Stockton.
Bi-Lingual Communicatively/Learning Handicapped Provides services to primarily Spanish speaking students who are identified with severe language or learning disabilities, and who benefit from placement in a special setting for all or part of their day.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Provides special programs for students with hearing impairments that are serious enough that they primarily benefit from full-time placement in the special day class setting. Sign language interpreters enable students to mainstream in general education classes and participate in extra curricular activities as appropriate.
Orthopedically Handicapped Provides support and special programs for students who have severe orthopedic impairments, and who may have some combination of placement between the special day class and the mainstream setting.
Severely Handicapped Provides special programs for students with severe cognitive and developmental disabilities, including autism.
Severely Handicapped Young Adults Transition Classes Provides vocational training and assessment and ongoing functional academic training for severely disabled students who are in transition from high school age to the world of work, supported employment or other adult settings.
Designated Instructional Services/Support Services
Adapted Physical Education Itinerant Services Provides supporting programs for students who have a special education Individual Education Program for services due to a federally defined disability and who need specialized, adapted physical education for balance, coordination and other motor and spatial needs.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Itinerant Services Provides support and special interventions for students who have various degrees of hearing loss but are able to benefit educationally from full time placement in the mainstream setting.
Language, Speech and Hearing Specialists Itinerant Services Provides speech and language services and interventions to students placed in a variety of special and regular education programs throughout the San Joaquin SELPA.
Visually Handicapped and Orientation and Mobility Itinerant Services Provides support and special interventions for students who have various degrees of visual loss but are able to benefit educationally from full time placement in the mainstream setting.
Occupational Therapy Services Provides specialized services in fine/perceptual motor training, daily living skills & sensory motor integration for students requiring service to benefit from their educational placement.
Behavior Intervention Specialist/Autism Specialist Services Provides consultation to staff, parents and services to students requiring specialized behavioral support in order to benefit from their educational placement.
School Nursing Services Provides specialized support, assessment, medical, specialized feeding and other interventions to students placed in San Joaquin County Office of Education special education programs and consultation to districts in San Joaquin SELPA.
