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Children's Sunday SchoolWhat should I do if my child has special needs?
Our desire in asking you to inform us of your child's special needs is to avoid the kind of informal and inaccurate labeling that comes from both teachers and peers when expressions of a special need are viewed as misbehavior. We want your child to fit in as much as possible and our experience has been that this will be best accomplished when we understand what is happening and can partner with you. Occasionally, in the younger children's classes, the teacher may notice something in the context of a group of children that you may be unaware of as a parent. Teachers are, of course, asked to talk to parents about behavior problems, but we also encourage our teachers to let their supervisor know if they see behaviors that seem out of the ordinary. If the supervisor or responsible staff person also thinks the behaviors seem out of the ordinary, one of us will contact you as the parent, and share our concerns. We do not do diagnosis, but there have been several occasions when we have spotted behaviors that turned out to be indicators of special needs when professionals did further evaluation. While this type of information may be hard for a parent to hear, and while we can certainly we can be wrong in being concerned about its significance, we take the risk of bringing it up because of the great benefit of early intervention for many conditions. |
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us about it! Our Sunday school program has served children with a wide
range of special needs, and we have a team of people who will
work together with you to design a plan for your child's Sunday
School experience. Whenever possible, it would be our desire
to mainstream a child, and to make necessary accommodations that are
reasonable for
volunteers to handle, and as long as the needs of other children in
the class can also be met. When extra assistance is needed, we try
to recruit an additional assistant for the class. We are willing to
observe the child in school and to meet with the child's teachers
to help us understand better how the child functions in a group learning
situation, and where possible, to provide consistency with interventions
in the school setting. We do not currently have a self-contained classroom
for children with special needs. We have served children with Asperger's Syndrome, developmental disabilities, sensory integration dysfunction, ADHD, high functioning autism, and specific learning disabilities within our regular classrooms.