Programs For The Handicapped
Lafayette Parish Public Schools provides programs and resources to support hearing impaired, visually impaired, and mentally challenged students. Lafayette High School is the location of the high school consortium within Lafayette Parish. These programs allow handicapped students to participate and learn in a school environment. The goal of the program is to empower students to lead vocationally, personally, and socially satisfying productive lives leading to their highest level of independence.
Services for visually impaired students include providing instruction in Braille; the use of Low Vision aids; and the use of large print materials. These methods are utilized in conjunction with the Louisiana Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Impaired. The program also provides direct and consultative support to all classroom teachers and staff involved with one of our students.
The hearing impaired consortium has special education staff that includes teachers for the hearing impaired, audiologists, speech and language pathologists, and interpreters/transliterators. Services include special education instruction which addresses the needs of the hearing impaired, auditory training/monitoring, speech/language therapy, interpreting/transliterating and/or C-Print captioning. These services may be addressed in a variety of different settings from the regular classroom to a special education classroom. In addition, sign language classes are offered at night for family and friends of the deaf/hard of hearing students.
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