Program Description
The SASED STARS Classroom is intended as an innovative best practice model classroom for teaching students who have a diagnosis within the ASD spectrum. STARS will provide discrete programming and education for primary-age children who require INTENSIVE instruction and INDIVIDUALIZED intervention. Research-based methodologies from the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) will serve as the foundation for designing each student’s cognitive, social, emotional and behavioral learning.
STARS will offer a highly structured learning environment using an evidence based curriculum that will incorporate comprehensive best practice strategies with goals to:
- Individualize instructional planning across academic, behavioral, communication and emotional goals
- Provide consistent positive experiences related to learning and socialization
- Provide enrichment opportunities for supported generalization within inclusive settings
- Collect ongoing systematic data for determining individualized programming and for monitoring academic and behavioral progress
- Include families as partners in education by collaborating on home strategies
- Consider independence as an important goal toward optimal development
INTEGRITY OF PROGRAMMING
- Specific approaches and strategies will be based upon the individual student profile
- Direct Instruction methodologies may include, but are not limited to, concepts related to: TEAACH, Errorless Learning, Structured Teaching, Direct Instruction, Verbal Behavior, Social Stories, Pivotal Response Training, Precision Teaching, Incidental Teaching, Relationship Development Intervention and Floor Time.
- To ensure integrity, consultation, evaluation and collaboration to STARS will be conducted by public school district Special Education Directors within the SASED cooperative as well as by outside agencies.
