Important Info

Continuum of Educational Services pyramid

Self-Contained Special Education Programs

• Early Childhood Special Education (E/C)
  This half-day program is for students between the ages of 3 and 5 who are disabled and display significant developmental delays. This program is housed at both Lincoln and Forest Glen with both morning and afternoon sessions available.
  
  
• Assisted Instructional Program (AIP)
  This program is for students typically with a severe cognitive impairment who need considerable assistance to achieve skills. The instructional focus is on life skills. The elementary and junior high level programs are housed at CASE cooperative schools.
  
  
• Guided Instructional Program (GIP)
  This program is for students typically with mild to moderate cognitive impairment who need continuous guidance and repetition to learn skills. The intermediate level elementary program is housed at Forest Glen and the junior high level is housed at Hadley. The primary elementary level elementary program is housed at a CASE cooperative school.
  
  
• Modified Instructional Program (MIP)
  This program is for students typically with severe learning disabilities and/ or mild cognitive impairments who need modifications of regular curriculum. There are two sections of this program with the intermediate level elementary program housed at Franklin and the junior high program housed at Hadley. The primary elementary level elementary program is housed at a CASE cooperative school.
  
  
• Emotional Disorder Program
  This program is for students who display significant emotional or behavioral impairments as defined by IDEA. The junior high program is housed at Hadley. The elementary level program is housed at a CASE cooperative school.
  
  
• Vision Program
  This program is for students with severe visual impairments. The program focuses on both academics and daily living skills with the utilization of technology such as Braille writers. The preschool, elementary and junior high levels are housed at SASED cooperative schools. For more information please see the SASED website at: www.sased.org
  
  
• Deaf/Hard of Hearing Program
  This program is for students with identified severe hearing losses. The program focuses on academics utilizing a Total Communication philosophy. The preschool, elementary and junior high levels are housed at SASED cooperative schools. For more information please see the SASED website at: www.sased.org
  

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Extended School Year (ESY)

Provisions for Extended School Year services to students with disabilities is only required when the combination of regression and recoupment time needed to regain lost skills is excessive.

Regression is defined as the amount of loss during a scheduled break in instruction of a learned skill or acquired knowledge, which has been specified in the measurable annual goals and short-term objectives and benchmarks in the child’s IEP.

Recoupment is the amount of time required to recoup those lost skills when school/instruction resumes.

No single factor is determinative of the need for extended school year services. A variety of factors must be examined when considering if a student should receive ESY services. These factors include, but are not limited to:

• The degree of impairment
• Ability of child’s parents to maintain child’s level of skills
• Whether the service is extraordinary to the child’s condition
• The child’s rate of progress
• Retrospective data such as past regression and
• Rates of recoupment of skills

Reliable sources of information for determining the presence of these factors may include:

• Progress on goals in consecutive IEP’s
• Progress reports maintained by teachers and others having direct contact with the student before and after interruptions in the educational program
• Observations and opinions from teachers, parents and others, and
• Results of criterion referenced tests, assessments and other equivalent measures

For further information, please see the Illinois State Board of Education memo:

www.isbe.net