The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1970 Page: 31 of 40
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EMPHASIS IS PLACED on acquiring vocational proficiencies In
the high school level V special education class. Here the teacher,
Bill Ament, observes Pete Hernandez, Terri Meyer, Dicky Cochran,
Charles MacGregor, Hank Davenport, Jerrel Gulllory, Sherry Coon-
rod and Debbie Gregory as they sample various job tasks. Such
tasks as assembling, collating, matching, sorting, and measuring
and cutting materials aid the teacher and the student In discovering
the aptitudes and Interests which need to be developed. They also
aid the student in recognizing his limitations and in discovering
the types of vocations for which he is unsuited. In a second phase of
vocational exploration, students get an opportunity to explore pos-
sible vocations and gain work experience by being Introduced to
on-campus work stations. Studerts remain in a particular work sta-
tion approximately six weeks before they are rotated to another.
THE JUNIOR HIGH group welcomes 'Sesame
Street’ as an exciting and special place where they
can learn about themselves and about the world.
They use the program as a part of science, lang-
uage, phonics, and spelling. The program gives an
opportunity to recall things they have just seen
and heard.
NANCY PICKERING completes an individualized
spelling lesson with the aid of the Language Mas-
ter. The Language Master uses cards with a strip
of magnetic tape for recording spelling words or
special instructions. By listening to each card,
Nancy can work through a spelling lesson at her
own rate of speed. Gail Thompson, Longfellow
teacher, prepared these cards specifically for
Nancy.
SPEECH THERAPY — Kim Kelso, Michael Wall, Bill
Kreuz, Charlie Kovarcik and Douglas Canfield are using
the phonic mirror in a speech therapy class to aid in the
discrimination of good and poor speech. The speech
therapy program provides training for all types of speech
disorders, including articulation, cleft palate, stuttering,
delayed language, and hard of hearing. The goals of
speech correction are good speech, skills in spelling
and reading, and parental understanding of speech prob-
lems through parent conferences.
A PART OF THE on-job-tralnlng for Monte Villarreal
(middle) and Coley Day (right) at Alvin Food Market is
preparing and arranging produce for customer selection.
At left their employer-teacher, Olen Dean Jr., observes
their work. The on-job-tralning level in Alvin High
School's Special Education Program is planned for the
student who is of employable age. At this level a student
might be employed part time or full time in the commu-
nity. The activities are designed to assist the student in
adjustment to personal and social relationships and work
experience. Also the employed student will have the
opportunity to acquire the skills needed for a specific
job, to become a productive employee and for dally liv-
ing in the home, on the job, and during leisure hours.
Guidance, counseling, supervision, and Instruction in
needed areas are provided each individual student by
the vocational adjustment coordinator, who is a special
education teacher, and by the vocational rehabilitation
counselor.
HOMEBOUND TEACHING — First grader Ole Aulie
is receiving homebound instruction from Miss Nancy Lee
Anderson, Alvin Home and Hospital teacher. Students
who are unable to attend the regular school program for
periods of approximately four weeks or more because of
illness or physical handicap may be eligible to partici-
pate. During the time that an eligible child is confined to
his home or the hospital, the teacher will go to the cliild
for the instruction. Each student enrolled in the program
will receive a minimum of four hours of instruction per
week.
THE EMR CLASS at Alvin Junior High School is en-
gaged in supervised study activities under the direction
of Mrs. nelma McNatt, Art. silent reading, oral reading
using a filmstrip projector, and dominoes are some of the
learning activities in progress. Some part of eacli school
day is devoted to Individualized or small group learning
activities based on interests and needs.
MARK SMITHSON, Johnny England, Larry Thompson,
and Albert Vaughn are shown here in Mrs. Merrie Que-
bedeaux’s special education class at Alvin Elementar"
School. They are illustrating a few of the many devices
employed to teach arithmetic. The pupils are demon-
strating a number line placed on individual desks, an
abacus, and counting blocks which arc used individually
or for group projects. TTie main goal in special education
is to teacli functional-arithmetic or numbers that can la-
applied in life.
GEORGE MARTINEZ, Pearlie Bryant, Pablo Rodri-
quez, and Eli Jimenez are applying the social skills they
have learned in Mrs. Allbright’s EMR classroom at Alvin
Primary. Concrete experiences are important tothe chil-
dren and in the special education classroom they are able
to participate in many first-hand experiences. One of the
main purposes of special education is the development of
social adequacy. Learning good manners is helping to as-
sure each child’s social adjustment.
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Storrs, A. W. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1970, newspaper, February 26, 1970; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215038/m1/31/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.