Kidstuff

• Main Authors: Ambagan, Cecilia R., Galindez, Gina G., Gargantiel, Mia P., Palileo, Cherry Carla P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1991
• Subjects: Computer software; Computer-assisted instructionn; Programmed instruction; Programming (Electronic computers)
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7001
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Cupertino Center for Special Children is a center for children and individuals with special needs. The school provides educational and therapeutic management and remediation which are not available in a regular school or clinic. The school provides services to children with learning disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbances and behavioral problems. Other services being offered by the school to children are diagnostic evaluations, educational management and therapeutic management. The thrust of all educational and therapeutic efforts at Cupertino centers around the whole person. The child is viewed as an individual with specific needs that must be satisfied and potentials that need to be stimulated for maximum functioning. Every student at Cupertino, therefore, has an individualized education and therapeutic program that is geared towards the facilitation of such potentials, and the satisfaction of such needs. The school personnel who primarily assist to the needs of the students are the Pediatrician, the Occupational Therapist, the Psychometrician, the Speech Correctionist and the Special Education Specialist. Aside from these personnel, the teachers and facilitators assisted by teacher aides support the operations of the school. The school has implemented a number of programs to adapt to the needs of its students as well as to the facilitators of the school. These programs are the educational and therapeutic, support, public awareness, and the swimming program. The objective of the educational and therapeutic program is to initiate individualized education program to its students. The students receive therapy/remediation/education according to its individual needs. The support programs aims to accomplish the following objectives: To foster continuing professional enrichment among facilitators and other staff members. It also provides the much needed personnel help in the programs as well as to provide a learning/practice medium for medical, special education and psychology students. The public awareness programs are geared to generate public awareness of the school's goals, products and students. It also provides a medium of sharing of the student's success. Lastly, the school believes that water is a good therapy. Students use the therapeutic pool for adaptive and or competitive swimming. Even though objectives have been provided by the school, problems are still unavoidable.