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DIRECT SERVICES & RESOURCES TO STUDENTS

Special Education Classes (Every Child Counts Learning Centre)
- Assessment and Prescription programs
- After-School Remedial Intervention program
- Community Literacy projects
- ECC Tips (Abaconian articles)
- Community Literacy
- Mommy Packs

• Direct Service. Two special education teachers, volunteers, teachers, parents, para-professionals, and student aides work directly with students needing assistance. (Here, Margaret Phillips works with learning-disabled primary children.)

• Training. Volunteer consultants provide information and techniques that build local capacity of those who work with the special-needs children, e.g., special education, reading, writing, speech and language, mathematics, early learning, discipline/peer mediation, cooperative learning, and technology via: On-site seminars, workshops, certification training, clinics, apprenticeship, classroom demonstrations

• Clinical Educators. Educators across Abaco are pursuing certification to give diagnostic-prescriptive test batteries and learn remedial/intervention techniques. As they are verified, they will provide direct assessment service to Abaco's children.  This clinical aspect includes hearing and vision screenings.
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These clinical educators come from schools and settlements in all parts of Abaco. They assess all aspects of reading: Physical Interference, Potential, Reading (Comprehension and Word Recognition), Emergent Literacy, and Study Skills.   Testing and Reports are free, and Tutoring is provided at low cost.