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Oral Academy Classes
Toddlers
While remaining
under the auspices of the Early Intervention Team, toddlers come to
school for periodic play groups with their parents. Combining situations
of play and learning activities in the school setting, our staff
encourages each toddler to integrate language into new aspects of their
development; interaction with other children as well as with their
parents.
Toddler group time also provides the parents with an opportunity to meet
other parents, to share stories, to broaden their knowledge of hearing
loss and to further develop their abilities to reinforce language in
everyday life.
Pre-School Language
Development
 Children
in this group meet three to five days a week for a full school day
depending upon the child’s abilities. The schedule includes games,
activities and learning experiences that are developed around several
pieces of literature, introduced one at a time throughout the school
year. These skills encompass the skills in a hearing pre-school yet
every lesson is taught in the setting of language development. A regular
education curriculum is adapted to meet the child’s language level. The
local school district is the usual provider of transportation.
Elementary Curriculum
 We
believe that the curriculum of our school provides teacherswith
a good plan from which they will pattern their individual lessons. This
plan is extremely important to the success of each child!
Our school follows
the regular education curriculum (pre-school through grade eight) of the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia with some modifications. Our students learn
the same grade level content in each of the major subjects as their
hearing peers in the regular program. Using the curriculum guides
written by the Archdiocesan Curriculum Committees, the teachers do their
best to introduce and reinforce the core concepts for each grade level.
Students work to master these concepts and appropriate documentation is
kept in the student’s individual file.
Language
Development is given specific emphasis. From earliest days, the child’s
listening skills are developed following the hierarchy of auditory skill
development. Documentation is made of each mastered skill and milestone
of development. Our Speech Language Therapist guides the classroom
teachers in their work to assist with speech development. Yearly tests
are administered to track each child’s growth.
As each child
continues language growth, in addition to ongoing Speech and Listening
Therapy, the classroom teacher follows the Language Curriculum of the
Archdiocese. Activities, lessons, conversations and presentations are
all opportunities to teach these concepts again and again. Speaking,
reading and written language assignments are given a top priority in
daily scheduling.
An. Educational Plan
outlines the unique considerations needed for each child’s success in
the school environment. These Educational plans are developed annually
by the teacher with input from the parents and appropriate support
personnel. Throughout the year, parents are encouraged to be involved in
their child’s education. Report Card conferences, parent information
meetings and parent-teacher relationships are the basis for home and
school partnerships
Speech Therapy
Each student in
Archbishop Ryan School’s Oral Academy sees our Speech Language
Pathologist (SLP) a few times a week for individual and small group
therapy sessions. Upon entry into the school program, a language level
for each child is determined through observation, interaction and
appropriate testing. Once the language level is determined, the child’s
program is developed and is composed of incremental steps in language
development. The SLP is in constant communication with the classroom
teacher and occasionally visits the classroom and team-teaches a lesson
with the classroom teacher. |
