Program Codes 59467 and 59468 – Intensive
Innovations Academy provides a comprehensive learning experience for students in grades 3-8, who live within our surrounding communities and have been diagnosed with:
- Emotional Disabilities
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Specific Learning Disabilities
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Other Health Impairment
- Multiple Disabilities
Our 3rd-8th grade program has three classrooms with a ratios varying from 5:1 to 8:2 based on classroom size, student need and acuity. The program has the capacity to serve 18 students. We provide the following services:
- Individual and Group Counseling
- Physical Education
- Visual Arts Education
- Art Therapy
- Music Education
- Music Therapy
- Special Recreational Sports League
- Psycho-educational and Recreational Groups
- Speech-Language Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
Intensive Programming / 1:1 services
Innovations Academy can provide additional support such as one-on-one paraprofessional support, documented within the student’s Individual Educational Plan (IEP). The IEP will reflect the need for this type of service delivery model. Services can be identified by a home school district during the intake process for a newly placed student or presented to the home school district by the Innovations Academy team for a currently enrolled student. Final approval of the intensive programming will be agreed upon and maintained by the following:
- The agreement of the defined need for additional support must be an IEP Team decision. The defined need will be provided with supportive data provided by either the home school district through the comprehensive case evaluation or by Innovations Academy through collected scanner data, crisis documentation and/or documented observational data from Innovation staff.
- Support clearly defined within the IEP in regards to amount of time for the identified support, reason for the identified support, and goals towards the reduction of the identified support.
- Support provided will be monitored through the continuous data collection through scanner data, crisis documentation and/or documented observational data from Innovation staff including any identified 1:1 provided as part of the support.
- The provided support will be reviewed monthly by the Innovations Academy principal and the home school district outplacement contact for effectiveness and assessment of continuing need. In the event that the Innovations Academy team has identified the need for a reduction or full removal of the provided support, a full IEP Team meeting including district and parent or guardian representation will be requested. Supporting data will be provided at this time to show the movement towards the identified goals related to the provided supports, identify the timeline for any support changes or reductions, and complete an addendum to the student’s IEP.
- If full reduction of the supports is agreed upon, Innovations Academy will request a new placement contract identifying the basic Innovations Academy programming for further school services.