Utilizing a preventative wellness model of care and service delivery, the Clinical Department embraces each student fully at their current ability.

Our program model takes a developmental approach designed to support, encourage, educate, and empower students toward wholeness and to equip students to be connected, contributing members of society.

Many students receive clinical services at the classroom or milieu level.
These students receive proactive clinical support through:

Regular classroom consults
Social, Interpersonal skill groups, and Experiential groups
PRN emotional support

A smaller percentage of students require assistance to be successful in their learning environment due to emotional and/or psychological barriers. Services may include:

Case management
Group therapy
Individual therapy
Teacher consultation
Parent consultation and/or therapy
Consult with home-based clinical and/or behavior team
Social and Interpersonal skill groups
PRN emotional crisis support

Many Pathway students receive direct speech services, including individual, group and/or consult services.

These services can include:

• Individual student support for social communication, language skills, and auditory processing in treatment, inclusionary and generalized settings.

• Themed social skills groups in order to utilize and/or promote hobbies and common interests as the basis for peers connecting through communication and socialization. Previous group themes include: scrapbooking, sign language, event organizing, detective activities, world cultures, and girls only topics.

• Weekly classroom language groups to teach, practice and generalize social communication and perspective taking skills.

• Special Education Teacher/Speech Therapist classroom collaboration to support vocational education/communication skills, and writing support for struggling students.

• Careers collaboration to teach and reinforce pragmatic skills and employability skills in the employment setting.
  

Students qualify for occupational therapy services if they demonstrate challenges with meaningful daily activities that the team identifies as interfering with their educational performance.

Services can include:

• Gross motor activities involving general strength, endurance, coordination, balance and positioning.

• Fine motor activities involving object manipulation, written communication and assistive technology

• Cognitive skills including concentration, attention, memory and general problem solving skills.

• Relaxation strategy exploration and training to provide students with tools for managing stressful situations

• Organization of materials for ease in access to supplies

• Work related activities involving body mechanics, perceptual skills, task organization, independent work skills and time management.

An essential part of the school's education approach is the implementation of a School-Wide Positive Behavior Support model. For more information, please click here.

Students who require more behavior support than what they can access at the milieu level will receive support through one or more of the following:

• Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
  

• Strategy Sheet
  

• Positive Behavior Support Plan (PBSP)

• Classroom consultation

• Individualized reinforcement systems
  

Reading therapy follows the diagnostic/prescriptive model. Testing, observation and teacher input is utilized to determine an appropriate approach to reading instruction.