Unlocking Kids' Potential Regional model crucial for inclusive education
TIM KALINOWSKI
Collaborative Service Delivery (SERCSD) model, but uncertainties about provincial funding have led to anxiety about the future of service delivery in the region.
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Jen Pierce-Ager is a teacher of the visually impaired. Her student works on a high contrast keyboard used for low vision.
SERCSD regional manager Donna Balas lists some of the benefits.
“At our table we have representation from (five) school divisions, Alberta Health Services and Alberta Human Services. We want to work together to meet the needs of particular population of students from the ages of zero to 20, if they have what we call low incidence disabilities, which is vision impairment, deaf or hard-of- hearing, and complex communications
oung people with disabilities and special needs across southeast Alberta have received huge benefits from the Southeast Alberta Regional
disabilities amongst others. And then we have students with more complex needs than any one ministry can manage. Our job is to streamline, look for efficiencies and get better service than you would through the old model, which was everything came in silos and people didn’t necessarily communicate across divisions. A lot of the value of the model is the relationships we have built around the table.”
Prairie Rose School Division director of inclusion Camille Quintin agrees, and says she knows students with complex needs in PRSD have definitely benefited from this broader collaboration.
“I would say the biggest benefit has been is we are providing equitable service, and equitable access to service, to students regardless of where they live,” says Quintin. “So a student that lives in Medicine Hat doesn’t get better service than a student
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