Our Progress report is filled with updates, pictures and inspiring reading improvement charts.
Here are a few accomplishments at a glance ..
- EEO underwrites visits by an interdisciplinary team including an audiologist, a paediatric neurologist, a speech therapist, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist and a child psychologist. Audiologist Kim Scrivin ,Speech Therapist visit Paula Bowleg visited in February
- EEO has had special education support established within 11 schools since 2000 and has equipped these resource rooms that EEO teachers work in during the school hours. .
2010-2011 school year, EEO served 110 children the following schools:
Gregory Town Primary School
North Eleuthera Primary School, Bluff
Harbour Island All Age School
James Cistern Primary School
Governors Harbour Primary School
PA Gibson Primary ( in Hatchet Bay)
Weymss Bight Primary School
Centre for Exceptional Learners, Governors Harbour*
- Since its start, EEO has organized 40 professional seminars with over 250 teachers attending. The Ministry of Education Eleuthera District endorses these seminars and has mandated a half-day of school for certain EEO's seminars so that all teachers may learn valuable new skills about increasing literacy and special education strategies.
In 2010-2011, Six Seminars were presented to the Ministry of Education teachers to help them best reach special needs students mainstreamed within their classes. Over 100 teachers attended.
- EEO sponsored EEO and Ministry of Education teachers to visit Nassau to attend Special Education workshops and visit Academia School as part of professional development efforts.
- Approximately 1,200 students from all districts of Eleuthera have been given a hearing screening, and audiologist has preformed follow up testing for over 5o students with hearing loss, three hearing aides have been donated and medical procedures to help hearing problems have been underwritten by EEO. Upon recommendations of teachers and parents, 200 students have been given a vision screening. .
- Five Parent workshops were presented by EEO along with monthly PTA presentations
- This year's EEO After School Programs helped over 50 EEO students
- EEO collaborates with the Ministry of Education in establishing similar programs in other Family Islands. EEO is committed to assisting with the development of the first special education system for the Family Islands and creating sustainable programs for the future.
- Intensive Summer Programs by Special educators from Gaynor School, New York City and Therapist visits during month of July will be held at Hatchet Bay Primary and Governors Harbour Primary.
