Intensive Supports Consultants
- Available to help staff meet the needs of students and who are having difficulties learning. These include:
- Consult regarding student behavioral, social-emotional, and/or academic concerns.
- Facilitate referrals to in-division and out-of-division services.
- Support school staff when working with parents and outside agencies.
- Collaborate with school staff, families and outside agencies in order to determine appropriate educational programs for students.
- Facilitate support for traumatic incidents.
Intensive Supports Coach
- Support classroom teachers in the implementation of intensive supports strategies
- Model strategies in the classroom for the classroom teacher
- Targeted interventions with groups of students requiring more intensive supports
- Member of C-Team to provide consultative supports for students with complex needs.
- Professional development for school teams
Speech-Language Pathologists
- Assist school teams in supporting students who are displaying difficulties in the areas of speech and language. Students may display one or more of the following characteristics:
- Difficulty using and / or understanding language (e.g., following directions, grammar, vocabulary, etc.)
- Difficulty saying speech sounds
- Difficulty communicating verbally
- Hypo or hypernasality (typically seen in students with cleft palate)
- Voice disorders (e.g., hoarseness)
- Difficulty hearing
- Swallowing disorders
- Social interaction disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, selective mutism, etc.)
- Services are provided through screenings, consultations, assessments, classroom-based programs, home programs and referrals to outside agencies.
Registered Psychologists
- Assist school teams in supporting students who are displaying difficulties with learning and/or behavior. This includes:
- Students who struggle significantly with academics, social-emotional and/or behavioural concerns.
- Facilitate support for traumatic incidents.
- Provide counseling as needed.
- Services are provided through consultations, classroom-based observations, and formal and informal assessments.
Occupational Therapists
- Assist school teams in supporting students displaying difficulties with fine motor, gross motor and sensory processing. This includes:
- Students who are overly clumsy
- Students who have not determined dominant hand
- Students who struggle with printing or writing.
- Students who appear to seek out or avoid sensory experiences
- Students with self-regulation challenges
- Services are provided through consultations, classroom-based observations, formal and informal assessments, as well as group workshops and inservices.
School Social Workers
- Support students who are experiencing difficulties in maintaining a healthy social, emotional and/or behavioural state. This includes:
- Students who struggle with family circumstances, social/emotional well-being, mental health, behavioural concerns, peer relations and fulfilling basic needs.
- Support with traumatic incidents.
- Provide counseling as needed.
- Facilitate student support groups.
- Assess student needs and refer to appropriate supports.
- Work with and support the family as a whole.
- Services are obtained through outside or self-referral and are provided one-on-one or as a group.
English as an Additional Language (EAL) Teachers
- Assist English Language Learners (ELLs) in acquiring the necessary language and skills to be successful in school. Students who are considered English Language Learners include:
- newcomers to the country, as well as
- long-term learners who have been in Canada seven or more years, but still require language assistance.
- Services are dependent on the individual needs of the student and may include:
- “pull out” language lessons
- supplemental support a student can work on independently
- EAL credit classes (secondary level)
- drop-in support in the EAL room (secondary level)
- resources
- workshops and
- tips and strategies for those staff members who work with ELLs.
