EC - Exceptional Children’s Department
McCrary Elementary

Ms. Lanier teaches Kindergarten - 2nd grade.
Mrs. Wilkie teaches 3rd grade - 5th grade.
Two assistants: Mrs. Schauble and Mrs. Skyes
Ms. Brandt -Speech/Language Therapist
Mrs. McCain/Mrs. Cranford-Visually Impaired Specialist

*VI Services are provided for children who are considered visually impaired according to Federal and NC guidelines. Services include but are not limited to Braille, O&M support, inclusion support in the classroom, and direct specialized instruction. Equipment and materials needed to access the regular NC curriculum are provided to students to allow them to function in the least restrictive school environment and have access to the NC standard course of study.

Ms. Harris-Hearing Impaired Specialist

Miss Kidd - Hearing Impaired Teacher
"I provide services for children who have a hearing impairment that impedes their learning.  My role is to provide aid with self advocacy, language, assistive technology, and anything else that allows the students to access the curriculum."

Mrs. Scott-Occupational Therapist
*I help kids with fine motor, visual-motor, and visual perceptual skills. These skills are needed for efficient writing, reading, copying from the board, and activities of daily living such as tying shoes, buttoning shirts, etc.

Asheboro Rehabilitation Center provides professional, caring and appropriate physical therapy services to the exceptional children of the Asheboro City Schools.  This involves working one on one and establishing an inpidual program to assist the child in adapting to their daily environment at school.

Mrs. Singh-Physical Therapist

Our EC Department uses four different reading programs:

Language for Learning-Language instruction emphasizes words, concepts and statements important to both oral and written language. This language can be described as the language of learning and instruction.

 Language!-a reading program which helps students become good readers by developing their skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and comprehension.

Reading Mastery-is appropriate for any child who does not know how to read. It is a basic reading program, which means that it teaches all the skills that are needed for the child to learn to read and comprehend what is read.

Corrective Reading-is a complete core program that uses the groundbreaking Direct Instruction method to help students master the essential decoding and comprehension skills they need not only to read well, but to learn well.

There are three ways of serving our EC students:

Regular (Inclusion)-the students stay in the regular classroom and the EC teacher co-teaches with the regular education teacher following the standard of study.

Resource-students are pulled out away from their peers for a short period of time.

Separate-students are pulled out away from their peers for all academic areas.


Lanier


Wilkie


McCain


Cranford