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Student Support Services

WELCOME TO STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

Our Mission

 

The Kamiak High School Special Services team is a cohesive unit that focuses on whole students and their experiences in school and community; to build rich educational plans that launch them into their high school experience and connect them to their future

Our Vision

 

All students, at their own level, want to succeed. We are the facilitators and guides of a student’s education—students need to own and participate in their school experience.

 

All students need guidance to connect the high school experience to their future. We graduate students on individually designed plans that challenge their skills to grow and encourage post high school planning.

ASB and Sport Fee Waiver Process

 

Fee waivers will be granted to students who participate in the WSAC College Bound Scholarship program or qualify for free or reduced-price meal benefits and have consented to share their data with other programs within the District. More information, the application to apply, or the Family Income Survey and the Consent Form in ParentSquare or a physical copy of the Consent Form can all be found on our Nutrition Services website.

How can we help

  • Students served in our programs vary in range of needs but must maintain their IEP yearly in order to receive services. Our program works hard to balance academic standards with the needs of our students in academics, socialization, and transition.

  • IEP classes are designed to provide each student with specially designed instruction in the least restrictive academic environment. The IEP teacher, as specified on the Individual Education Plan of each student, assigns the classes. Classes under this category are taken by teacher permission only.

  • We strongly encourage our students who are incoming Freshmen to connect with their Link Leader through the LINK program. It is an orientation program in which students are assigned a LINK leader. The LINK leaders help to answer questions and help Freshmen adjust to life in the large high school.

    This program is so valuable!

  • The focus of high school is to connect the school experience to the student’s future. An ongoing assessment of skills and interests related to the work world is done through informal interviews as well as career-transition planning meetings between the IEP manager and student.

    We also encourage job shadows and work experience when appropriate for a student. Students receive coaching for the workplace and encouragement to balance work with academics and the pressures of being a teenager.

  • An IEP is an Individualized Education Plan for a student.

  • A 504 Plan is for students who require additional accomodations within the classroom.

Academic Course Offering and Programs

  • For individuals qualifying for SDI in the area of Adaptive Skills and/or whose qualifying area is Intellectual Disability or Autism.

    Placement decisions are made by the IEP Team.

    Course offerings may include:

    • Applied Adult Living Skills
    • Social Skills
    • Functional Academics
    • Community Awareness

  • Independent Living

  • Learning Behavior Support

  • Students enrolled in general education English or Mathematics.

    • Learning Strategies
    • Literacy/Writing in the Content Area
    • Math Lab
    • Social Thinking and Pragmatic Language Skills

  • Students will take an IEP course in place of the general educatoin course requirements.

    • English I
    • English II
    • English III
    • English IV
    • Consumer Math
    • Algebra Essentials I
    • Algebra Essentials II
    • Occupational Math

Student Support Services Staff