Special Needs
Services
The Perkins Act helps provide supplementary services which are essential for members of special populations to successfully participate in career education programs. Funds may be used for:
- Supportive personnel
- Instructional aides and devices
- Curriculum modification
- Equipment modification
- Classroom modification
Guidance, Assessment, Career Development and Placement Services can help ensure students are placed in appropriate career education programs, help them complete the programs and move successfully from school to employment or further training. Specific services in these areas may include: counseling; career assessment; occupational orientation; acquisition of career awareness and exploration materials; dropout prevention; outreach; placement and follow-up.
The Career Education Resource Educator is a non-teaching, professJuly 30, 2008ocess of mainstreaming students with disabilities. The RE assists with career education placement, goal setting, curriculum modification and acquisition of resource materials. The RE also acts as a liaison with other school personnel to help students make the transition from school to employment or further training.
Basic Skills Instructors provide individual or small-group instruction in mathematics, reading and writing skills essential for successful completion of a career training program. The instruction is provided in cooperation with the career education teacher and concurrently with enrollment in a career education program.
Supplemental Professional Instructors help career education teachers provide the additional instruction that special population students require to succeed in their career education programs.
Career Education Teacher Aides assist career education teachers by reinforcing instruction, monitoring students at work stations in a laboratory, and helping with competency testing.