| There
are approximately 240 students currently enrolled in the Ex-Ed
Department at WHS. There are 16 teachers and 7 para-professionals.
The exceptional education department of Washington High School
provides a variety of instruction for students with various
disabilities in the areas of Learning and Cognitive Disabilities,
Emotional Disturbance, Orthopedically Impaired, and Speech and
Language Disabilities. Our exceptional education department
offers a variety of learning options to students with special
needs. Washington
High School emphasizes inclusionary program ming but also
offer self-contained integration with modification when necessary.
A self-contained class would be where a student would receive
instruction only from an exceptional education teacher. A
regular education teacher would teach an inclusion or mainstreamed
class with some support from the exceptional education teacher.
Academic
learning is structured to accommodate the various learning
styles such as auditory, kinestic, visual, and multi-intelligence.
Teachers in this department embrace a variety of teaching
methods such as: concrete or hands on, thematic, community
based education, cooperative learning, and performance based
instruction to accommodate student needs.
A number
of students within the department are enrolled in the following
families: Research and Development, Marketing, Health Occupation,
Manufacturing Technology, and Computer and ROTC.
Our departments
also have students enrolled in Business Careers, Co-Op, Hero,
and CATP. Students enrolled in these programs are dismissed
for a half-day of employment and job training. Students in
the CATP Community Assessment Training Program may receive
valuable job skill training while earning academic class credits.
Some of
the sites available to students are: Froedtert, Veterans,
and St. Mary's Hospitals, Central Services, Division of Student
Services, Garfield Elementary School, Mental Health Complex,
Alverno College, Pfister Hotel, U.S. Attorney Generals Office
and Lakewood Care Center. For a list of the training jobs
at each of these sites: Click here.
Teachers
enlist the services of Employment Specialist Trainers and
counselors of the Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation (DVR) for assistance and support with seniors
and hard to place students to
find gainful employment after graduation.
The range
of disabilities our students are helped with include:
Learning Disabilities
Cognitive Disabilities
Emotional Disturbance
Related Services
Orthopedically Impaired
Speech and Language
To
learn more about the populations we service click here.
RESOURCES
Department
of Public Instruction
Division of Learning Support : Equity and Advocacy
P.O.Box
7841
Madison,
WI
53707-7841
(800)441-4563
Parent
Education Project of Wisconsin
2192
S. 60th St.
West
Allis, WI.
53219-1519
(414)328-5520
(800)231-8382
Wisconsin
Coalition for Advocacy
(WCA)
(414)276-9333 |
