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Meadow Park provides many programs, which assist students in special need areas. These programs offer assessment and service for students by our specialists who deal with learning strengths and weaknesses, speech and language skills, health related concerns, and psychological needs.
The Meadow Park staff has a strong commitment to assist children with special needs and encourages parents who have a concern about their child to request assistance and support from the Individualized Education Program Team (I.E.P. Team) consisting of the principal, psychologist, resource specialist, and the speech and language pathologist. The specialists also function in a consultative role to staff and parents regarding any student’s need. One of their most important functions is to work in a preventative way with children.
Resource Specialist Program
This program is designed to assist children who demonstrate significant deficits in academic skills. A student can qualify for this program by demonstrating a specific learning disability or a significant discrepancy between ability and academic achievement. After a student is identified as qualifying for this program, an Individualized Educational Plan is designed to assist the student to make reasonable academic gains utilizing his/her strengths and remediating weaknesses. This program is designed and implemented by the resource specialist in classrooms and in a one-on-one or small group-learning situation. The specialist also provides assistance and support to children with behavioral concerns.
Speech and Language Pathologist
The speech and language specialist provides diagnosis and therapy/service for students who demonstrate difficulty in speech, language development, and language-based skills. Students receive services to assist significant speech and language impairments to develop those skills to increase academic success. Students who qualify for this program have an Individualized Educational Plan designed for them and receive individual or small group assistance from the speech and language pathologist.
Psychological Services
The school psychologist provides assistance for behavioral, social/emotional, and cognitive problems of students. Diagnosis of students’ needs, counseling/guidance for students and parents, and consultation to staff is offered.
Health Services
District nursing staff provides students with vision screening (grades K, 3, 6) and hearing screening (grades K, 2, 5) and assists students who have physical impairments and health related problems. Information and guidance is provided to staff, parents, and students when medical conditions affect academic and social growth. A complete health and developmental history of a student is obtained when considering placement in the Resource Specialist Program. For further information, call Irvine Unified School District Health Services Office at (949) 936-7920.
Special Day Classes
IUSD provides students with a minimal or total support system (academic, behavioral, personal, vocational, transition) through which he/she can acquire knowledge and those skills necessary to function in the regular classroom and ultimately in society.
Title I Program
Title I funds support multiple programs including: Before-school math classes, Read 180, a reading intervention program using technology, reading selections matched to reading levels, and small group reading instruction for grades 4-6 with a trained specialist; Read Naturally, a reading program targeting reading fluency in grades 1-3; and the Early Intervention Reading Model program for small group reading intervention in the classrooms in grades K-2.
English Learners
Students, who have been identified as English Learners, will receive additional support to assist them in reading, writing, listening, and speaking standards. With guidance from the classroom teacher, students will work towards meeting their English Language Development Standards.