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[mirsgreenberg]

I am interested to find out how other yeshiva days schools have set up a special education program within their school.
Specifically:
Do you run a withdrawal model? Do you run an integrated model where staff goes into classrooms to support student work?
Specifically around Limudei Kodesh, do you focus on all areas of the curriculum or only specific core subjects?
How many staff members are part of your team?
Looking forward to hearing from you!

[yaichenbaum]

In the Scranton Hebrew Day School, I run the limudei kodesh resource room.  Students are withdrawn from class for 30 minute sessions four times per week.  I focus on actual skill building and not on classroom work (i.e. kriah, vocabulary, etc.).  We are very successful in building skills so that students can eventually function in the mainstream classroom.  We focus on the long-term goal as opposed to the short-term goal of passing the next test. 

The success of our program is based on overlearning to the point of automaticity.  A description of part of the program can be found in my article "My Image of the Ideal Resource Room" on chinuch.org.

I am the only staff member.  Please contact if you have further questions.

Rabbi Yaakov Aichenbaum
Scranton Hebrew Day School
yaakov@ybm.edu