The overview
The $250,000 contract will provide services for CCISD’s “most behaviorally involved students,” according to district agenda documents. The PTC is strictly meant to help CCISD students with disabilities, officials said.
Although this will be for CCISD students with disabilities and those in special education, the PTC offers services to individuals with the following diagnoses:
- Autism
- Intellectual disability
- Multiply handicapped
- Auditory impairment
- Visual impairment
- Bipolar disorder
- Major depression
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
District documents note CCISD offers “a continuum of services for students with disabilities.” However, an out-of-district placement is required when the district’s most restrictive setting available to the students can’t meet their significant behavioral needs.
Currently, CCISD offers some of the following services for special education students:
- Positive Approach to Student Success: provides social skills and self-regulation training for students who have difficulty managing their behaviors while in a general education setting
- Structured Learning Lab Social Communication: for students with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disorders that require explicit social skills training and practice while in the general education setting
- Structured Learning Lab Adaptive Behavior: for students with autism spectrum disorders and other development disorders that require instruction in a self-contained setting
- Early childhood special education
- Social development: for students who have difficulty managing their behaviors that require instruction in a self-contained setting
- Alternative academics: modified instruction in functional and prerequisite skills
The Behavior Support Center helps students learn self-regulation skills and places them back in their normal classrooms sooner, officials said.
The center has two classrooms with eight students allowed in each one. Each classroom has one teacher and two paraprofessionals, according to district documents.
