All concerns should be directed to my email or phone me at 905-697-9857 x229. if you need to make an appointment concerning your son/daughters progress don't hesitate to call.
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Jon Gale Special Education Dept. Head Clarington Central Secondary School 200 Clarington Blvd. Bowmanville, ON L1C 5N8 905-697-9857 Ext. 229 Fax# 905-697-0452 |
Resource
The Resource Centre is available for students with an IEP on a drop in basis. The IEP will be adhered to and students needing accommodations for tests and exams should set up procedures with classroom teachers beforehand. |
The Learning Disabilities of Peterborough has a satelite office in Clarington at 93 King St. West in Bowmanville. Phone 905-623-1852.
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All students with IEP's receive updated IEP's at report card dates. Any inquiries into getting support or in finding out about the support offered will be responded to. Please make an appointment by calling me or emailing to find out more information. |
School Reach
The School Reach team is starting up in October. Both senior and junior teams compete against schools from the Northumberland/ Clarington area in a league inolving five tournaments. The games are in a "Jeopardy" like format where four players from each school compete head-to-head with four players from an opposing school. |
Students in Grade 9 and 10 with an IEP can take GLE101 or GLE201, our learning strategies classes, at the start of the year September 2011. As well geography and civics/careers courses are offered in modified courses to support students. |
Advanced Placement
Courses involved in the advanced placement program include english, history and science. Each year we hope to add to the list of courses offwered at the AP level. At present the math is offered at the enriched level.
More details concerning the AP Program are found on the school web site front page and at [Link]"ap.ca"
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Student Support
The Premier Assistive Technologies, assistive technology suite of software, licensed for use in KPR schools, is now licensed for use at home by KPR registered students. There are a wide variety of tools available to support students with a variety of learning needs. The three tools that have received the most use in KPR schools are:
Talking Word Processor - easy to use word processor with voice feedback and built-in word prediction support
Universal Reader Plus - allows text to be read aloud from any document - includes talking pointer for automatic reading of web page documents
Scan and Read Pro - allows text documents to be scanned and converted to electronic text or audio files for read back.
These are just a few of the many titles available. The attached file contains information for accessing and downloading of the software from the Premier AT Home website (www.premierathome.com). The complete list of software available as well as product overviews, system requirements and training tutorials are available on the Premier AT Home website. Most of the Premier software titles include training videos which are accessed through the Help menu, once the program is installed. |
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