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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 4, 2004. PAGE 23.
AMDSB program moves ahead
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Despite some uncertainty
regarding future funding for special
education programs. the Avon
Maitland District School Board has
moved ahead with an innovative
project aimed at developing the
skills and resources needed to teach
autistic children.
On Friday, Oct. 22, the board
hosted its first professional
development sessions at what's
being called an Autism
Demonstration Site at Anne
Hathaway elementary school in
Stratford.
According to education
superintendent Marie Parsons,
groups of teachers from the board
are now booked to take part in
similar sessions at the site, one day
per month from now until the end of
the current school year. After that,
Parsons says, the board may begin
looking outside its' borders to
provide autism-related professional
development on a revenue-
generating basis.
Students of all abilities are present
in the school while the sessions are
taking place. with small groups of
teachers actually ob'serving inside
the classrooms at certain times.
There is no interaction between the
participants and students, however,
and Parsons reported that Anne
Hathaway students adjusted very
well to the presence of participants
during the Oct. 22 launch of the
project.
"The focus is on how classrooms
have been constructed, physically, to
make the environment more suitable
for children with autism. That
includes some of the symbols that
have been placed around the room,"
Parsons explained, adding the aim of
the pro",..ct is to provide information
abou' how to minimize the
difficulties when placing autistic
students in regular, integrated
classrooms.
The Stratford_ school was chosen
as a host site because, in 2003-04, it
was the Avon Maitland board's
autism pilot site. That program.
initiated and funded by the
provincial government, provided 10
school boards with the resources to
- as Parsons puts it - "examine
the (education) ministry's autism
standards, to determine if we
complied with them already, and if
Huron East
council
briefs
A third reading took place and a
motion was carried at Oct. 19
council meeting, to approve an
agreement between Huron East and
Wightman Communications for
installation of new
telecommunications equipment.
***
Road work in Grey and
Tuckersmith was reported as now
being complete (including the
removal for five large trees that
were a problem in Brussels).
***
Chief building official Paul
Josling reported that building
permit values are currently less
than they were last year at this time.
***
The Moncreiff property issue and
its legalities were reviewed in
camera . The result was a motion
passed by council to have the
Moyers remove their property from
municipal land (the four-foot
walkway at the rear of their
property).
we didn't - what it would require to
-comply."
She stressed - the Autism
Demonstration Site is not linked
directly to the autism pilot program,
though Anne Hathaway's
participation in the earlier initiative
did give the school "a head start"
when it came to providing learning
resources of value specifically to
autistic students.
Other than that, costs for the new
. Autism Demonstration Site -
including mainly staff training but
also further resources and alterations
to the building -- are being covered
entirely through the board's special
education budget.
That means the project, like
others, is caught up in the board's
ongoing struggle to convince the
provincial government that trustees
were justified in creating a special
education reserve fund when the
2004-05 budget was approved last
June. • Education ministry officials
have since announced that if boards
have such reserves, they must not be
spending enough on special
education and should have the
amount of ,those reserves removed
from their 2004-05 provincial grant.
Parsons argues the board has
consistently spent more on special
education than the provincial grants
provide for, taking money from
other areas of expenditure to cover
the shortfalls: the reserve fund was
meant, in part, to prevent this from
happening in the future, if possible.
"We're endeavouring, at this point
... to reinforce with the ministry that
we, in fact, have been spending
significant dollars for things like the
demonstration site," the education
superintendent said.