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School-Based Services
Descriptions of Programs Offered with Charlottesville City Schools:
| Program | Description | Location |
| TEACCH | A self-contained* model that focuses on providing core academic instruction to students with autism and needs that require intensive and repetitive instruction. | Burnley-Moran Clark |
| Functional Skills | A self-contained* model that focuses on providing core academic instruction to students with cognitive impairments that require intensive and repetitive instruction as well as challenges with generalizing their skills to other environments. | Jackson-Via Walker Charlottesville High |
| Parkside | A self-contained* model that focuses on providing core academic instruction to post high school students with cognitive impairments that require intensive and repetitive instruction as well as challenges with generalizing their skills to other environments. | Charlottesville High |
| General Special Education | A model that is traditionally described as a pull-out* resource, co-teaching*, or consultation* provides specially designed instruction for the remaining population of students with disabilities. | All Schools |
| Targeted Intervention Practices | Direct assistance is available for a variety of student needs, including test-taking, homework and make-up work, project/research paper development, organization, study skills, progress toward IEP goals. Resource also supports students who are taking mainstream courses through consultation with regular education teacher and monitoring of the student’s performance. | Walker Upper Elementary School |
| Strategies Lab | Direct assistance is available for a variety of student needs, including test-taking, homework and make-up work, project/research paper development, organization, study skills, progress toward IEP goals. Resource also supports students who are taking mainstream courses through consultation with regular education teacher and monitoring of the student’s performance. | Charlottesville High |
| Services for Students with Hearing or Visual Impairments | The Department of Education annually prepares and distributes VDOE Resources for Students with Hearing and Visual Impairments through the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired to students who are identified as hearing impaired or visually impaired. | All schools |
A broader list of student services may be found on the “Programs and Services” tab on the Student Services main page.
Regional Services
Under certain circumstances, students qualify for or are better served by regional or state programs. Our partners include:
- The Elk Hill Charlottesville School serves young people grades K-12 from all across the greater Charlottesville region. Their services are offered to students with learning and emotional disabilities or an Other Health Impairment (OHI).
- Piedmont Regional Education Program (PREP) is a regional special education program that complements the services of local school divisions. Direct educational services are provided to students identified as autistic, seriously emotionally disturbed, multiple disabled, severely disabled, visually impaired, and hearing impaired.
- The Virginia Institute of Autism is dedicated to helping people overcome the challenges of autism through innovative, evidence-based programs in education, outreach and adult services.
- The Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind is one option for students identified as hearing or visually impaired. The Department of Education provides information describing the educational and other services available through the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired. See also the VDOE’s web pages about sensory disabilities. If assistance or other formats are needed to access this information, please contact your school.
Definitions
* Pull Out Resource: Special Education teachers provide specially designed instruction in areas such as language, reading, math, behavior, and social-emotional skills in a special education setting.
*Self-Contained: This setting focuses on the idea of smaller groups, and one-on-one attention to deliver a functional skills services.
*Co-Teaching: Students with disabilities receive appropriate support services in the general education setting. Students may receive instruction from both a general education teacher, and a special education teacher.
*Consultation: Services by general education teachers, special education teachers, and related service providers that focus on supporting the needs of individual students through work with their school teams, and families.