Elizabeth Lee Black School -

An Approved Private School

The Elizabeth Lee Black School offers a range of educational program choices designed to help all children achieve their greatest potential.

We offer educational programs that include:

• Autism Support Program
• Life Skills/Multiple Disabilities Program
• Children's Mental Health Partial Program
• Therapy and Support Services
• Extended School Year

Our school is specially designed to provide a highly structured classroom environment which allows children with significant disabilities to develop to their fullest. Each day the children participate in educational activities presented within a very predictable routine, providing them the
needed to confidently practice new skills.

Each student's IEP directs their learning experiences, which integrate a variety of activities throughout the school day, to address their academic, behavioral, and therapeutic needs.

Services Provided:

• Adapted playground
• Assistive Technology
• Audiological services
• Behavioral services
• Community-based instruction
• Inclusion programming
• Gym, pool, fitness, and art
• Job skills/vocational training in laundry, deliveries, etc
• Library/media services
• Orientation and mobility training
• PECS, TEACCH, SI, and Team Teaching
• Physical, occupational, speech and vision evaluation and therapy
• Psychological and nursing services
• Psychiatric support

Additional Innovative Services:

• Advanced fitness program: uses strength training to enhance motor fitness skills and sports performance levels, set up life patterns of healthy choices, prevent injuries, improve psychosocial well-being, and enhance overall health.

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• Courageous Pacers: a program that incorporates wellness into our school day using ongoing in-service programs and monthly activities that correspond to our status as a Keystone Healthy Zone School.

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• Evening sign language course: a program taught by the teacher of our deaf and hard of hearing classroom for any parent needing instruction.

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• Fast ForWord: a neuroscience approach to reading intervention, computer based listening/processing program.

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• Handwriting Without Tears: an advanced program that uses multi-sensory, hands-on manipulatives and CDs to prepare children for handwriting with a print tool assessment for evaluation and remediation.

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• Inclusive children's chorus: an excellent opportunity for increased community awareness as we promote social contact through music.

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• Monthly wheelchair clinic: this unique program allows ordering, fitting, and maintenance of wheelchairs or braces to occur one location during the school day.