IU1 Act 89 Auxiliary Service Program

Guidance and Counseling Services

  1. Objectives

    Individual and/or group guidance and counseling services are available to assist students in relating to familial, school, societal, and self expectations so that maximum student potential can be realized.

    Counselors provide crisis, developmental, educational, career awareness, and vocational counseling, and are utilized as consultants and resource persons by parents, teachers, administrators, and community agencies. Identification, diagnosis, remediation, and evaluation techniques are paramount in this program.

    The following objectives, though not inclusive, are integral parts of the total guidance and counseling service:

    • Development/improvement of self-confidence, self-acceptance, and self-esteem
    • Development/improvement of individual potential and achievement
    • Development/improvement of work and study habits
    • Development/improvement of accurate expression of feelings
    • Development/improvement of anxiety management techniques
    • Development/improvement of acceptance of responsibility for one's behavior
    • Development/improvement of independence
    • Development/improvement of goal setting
    • Development/improvement of coping with rejection and/or change
    • Development/improvement of values clarification
    • Development/improvement of peer relationship

    Crisis counseling centers upon immediate individual, family, or social concerns regarding:

    • Adjustment problems
    • Child abuse
    • School phobias
    • Discipline problems
    • Separation and divorce
    • Decision making skills
    • Death
    • Substance abuse

    Developmental counseling promotes adjustment to life by:

    • Encouraging positive attitude toward counseling and placing trust in it as a source of direction and encouragement
    • Improving interpersonal relationship, behavior, and physical and emotional health
    • Furthering insight and individual assessment of social adjustment, self-esteem, self-respect, self-image, and self-concept

    Educational counseling assists students with academic adjustment regarding:

    • Time management
    • Individual student records
    • Strengths and weakness
    • Preparation for a changing world
    • Maximizing individual potential to become a productive citizen
    • Study, organizational, memory, attention, and decision making skills

    Career awareness and vocational counseling prepare students for their future by concentrating upon:

    • Leadership and group member skill
    • Interests and aptitudes
    • Goal establishment

    Some significant objectives of this program:

    1. To encourage students to organize their thinking about educational and vocational plans.
    2. To present students with a wider selection of alternatives than would normally be available.
    3. To provide student access to complete and current information.
  2. Activities/Strategies
    1. Learn new behavior by receiving verbal instructions from significant others by:
      1. Progressive relaxation training
      2. Direct instruction
      3. Bibliotherapy
      4. Thought interference (rational emotive therapy)
      5. Assertiveness training
    2. Learn new behavior by imitating the behavior, beliefs, values, and attitudes of significant others through:
      1. Role playing
      2. Modeling
      3. Developmental groups
    3. Maximize learning by making students more aware of certain personal and environmental characteristics via:
      1. Client centered therapy
      2. Directive counseling
      3. Play therapy
    4. Expose students to specific decision making methods through:
      1. Brainstorming
      2. Litany of decision making process
      3. Goal identification
      4. Individual comparisons
  3. Affected Student Population:

    K-12 (Approximately 900 students served)

  4. Number and Source of Professionals:

    Four (4) full-time IU1 NPSS Guidance Counselors

  5. Means Used To Deliver Service:

    On-site

Remedial Math

  1. Objectives:
    1. To develop an instructional program based on the student's needs in the area of mathematics.
    2. To maximize student potential in the basic mathematical skills.
    3. Create a positive attitude toward mathematics, and prepare the students to use mathematics in normal everyday activities.
    4. Provide students with problem solving skills using the four basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division involving whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and percentages.
    5. Assure that students can use their computational and problem solving skills in our technological and computer oriented society.
    6. Utilization of symbols, elements, operations of whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, geometric definitions, and measurement to assure accurate computational skills.
    7. Select and use support technology.
  2. Activities:
    1. Examination: The examination is in the form of screening tests, basic skill evaluation tests and teacher referrals.
      1. Stanford Diagnostic
      2. California Achievement Tests (Schools)
      3. Wide Range Achievement Test (Pre and Post)
    2. Diagnosis: From the results of the tests evaluation programs, a diagnosis of the child's needs is recorded. These needs are assessed for each individual.
    3. Prescription: The prescription or plan of action is the teaching phase of the program. From the information compiled on each child, the teacher chooses the proper materials to develop the skills in which there is a deficiency. Included in this phase are mediated and non-mediated instruction with individuals and small groups.
    4. Follow-up Examinations: In order to assess a pupil's grasp of each skill a re-evaluation takes place after the teaching procedure is completed. This examination may be in the form of a test, either written or oral, or in the form of a special game or worksheet. The activity is usually designed to check the individual's application of the skill to a practical situation.
    5. Prevention Maintenance: The maintenance of the skill comes from frequent practice and use of the skill in every-day situations. This includes teacher conferences and retesting. In each skill area, the process is similar; test, prescribe, teach, practice, and reinforce, and then reevaluate.
  3. Affected Student Population:

    K-12 (Approximately 468 students served)

  4. Number and Source of Professionals:

    Four (4) part-time Intermediate Unit 1 Nonpublic School Service teachers

  5. Means Used To Deliver Service:

    On-site

Speech/Language Therapy

  1. Objectives:
    1. To identify speech and language impaired students.
    2. To provide a thorough assessment, diagnosis, and evaluation of each student's disorder.
    3. To provide a therapeutic program through the development of an individual education program which includes short and long term intervention goals and objectives to meet individual needs.
    4. To provide medical and educational follow-up.
    5. To utilize allied professional personnel for referral and consultant purposes such as orthodontists, otolaryngologists, audiologists, etc.
    6. To plan and conduct parent and teacher conferences.
    7. To implement appropriate follow-up procedures for pupils dismissed from the program.
  2. Activities:
    1. Thorough diagnostic and evaluation programs utilizing reliable assessment procedures, techniques, and standardized tests.
    2. A sequential program of activities designed to remediate specific speech and language problems.
    3. Language development, speech improvement, and speech therapy through individual and/or group therapy.
    4. Instill through parent counseling an awareness of, and a proper attitude toward a speech and/or language impaired child.
    5. Vary motivational and therapeutic techniques to stimulate and sustain the interest of the child to foster improvement.
    6. Incorporation of procedures for continuation of the clinician's work, in the classroom and at home in order to establish carry-over of newly acquired skills.
    7. Maintain individual education programs and student records.
    8. Dissemination of pertinent information to superintendents, principals, teachers, and parents through periodic progress and summary report.
  3. Affected Student Population:

    K-12 (Approximately 373 students served)

  4. Number and Source of Professionals:

    Intermediate Unit 1 Employees: Four (4) full-time Nonpublic School Service clinicians

  5. Means Used To Deliver Service:

    On-site

Consultant for Nonpublic School Services

  1. Objectives:

    To improve instruction for children who might require special support and/or treatment so as to facilitate social, emotional, and academic growth and assure the development of an appropriate educational program.

  2. Activities:
    1. Provides on-going consultation, collaboration and/or referral to teachers, parents, administrators and allied professional personnel as required or applicable.
    2. Assists teachers in the improvement of instruction through:
      • Providing information and direction for adapting curriculum
      • Providing current resources available on specific disabilities
      • Providing recommendation for children's success
    3. Provides supportive teaching by demonstration and/or facilitating access to information on alternative teaching strategies, materials, programs and assessments.
    4. Assists in the development or modification of curriculum and programmatic processes.
    5. Facilitates the mainstreaming and inclusion concepts.
    6. Assists in developing new programs and modifying existing programs.
    7. Functions as a representative of the IU in committees, conferences and meeting related to the services for educationally disadvantaged nonpublic student.
    8. Promotes "Best Practices" in the education of all children.
    9. Accepts other tasks as assigned by supervisor.
  3. Affected Student Population:

    Students in grades K-12 as referred by nonpublic schools. (Approximately 96 students served)

  4. Number and Source of Professionals:

    One Intermediate Unit 1 Special Education Division teacher.

  5. Means Used To Deliver Service:

    On-site

Standardized Testing/Scoring

  1. Objectives:

    To provide a standardized measurement of student progress, strengths, and deficiencies; to provide parental feedback; to provide supportive data as applicable to auxiliary service referred.

  2. Activities:

    Testing materials and scoring services are furnished for nonpublic school students as required.

  3. Affected Student Population:

    K-12 (Approximately 3500 students served)

  4. Number and Source of Professionals:

    Not applicable

  5. Means Used To Deliver Service:

    On-site

Act No. 89

Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P L 30 No 14), entitled "An act relating to the public school system including certain provisions applicable as well to private and parochial schools, amending, revising, consolidating and changing the laws relating thereto," providing for auxiliary services for the benefit of children attending nonpublic schools in the Commonwealth.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 922-A act of March 10, 1949 (P.L. 30. No. 14) known as the "Public School Code of 1949," is repealed.
Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 922.I-A. Auxiliary Services. -

  1. Legislative Finding: Declaration of Policy. The welfare of the Commonwealth requires that the present and future generation of school age children be assured ample opportunity to develop to the fullest, their intellectual capacities. It is the intent for the General Assembly by this enactment to ensure that the intermediate units in the Commonwealth in both public and nonprofit nonpublic schools.
  2. Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this section, shall have the following meanings, except in those circumstances where the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Auxiliary services" means guidance, counseling and testing services: psychological services: services for exceptional children: remedial services: speech and hearing services: services for the improvement of the educationally disadvantaged (such as, but not limited to, the teaching of English as a second language), and such other secular, neutral, nonideological services as are of benefit to all school children and are presently or hereafter provided for public school children of the commonwealth ."Nonpublic school" means nonprofit school, other than a public school within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, wherein a resident of the Commonwealth may legally fulfill the compulsory school attendance requirements of this act and which meet the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352: 42 U.S.C. Section 2000 et seq).
  3. Program of Auxiliary Services. Students attending nonpublic schools shall be furnished a program of auxiliary services which are provided to public school students in the school district in which their nonpublic school is located. The program of auxiliary services shall be provided by the intermediate unit in which the nonpublic school is located, in accordance with standards of the Secretary of Education. Such services shall be provided directly to the nonpublic school students by the intermediate unit except that such services shall not be provided in a church or in any facility under the control of a sectarian school. Such auxiliary services shall be provided directly by the intermediate units and no auxiliary services presently provided to public school students by the intermediate units and/or school districts by means of State or local revenues, during the school year 1974-1975, shall be eliminated. No school districts shall be required, pursuant to any section of this act, to offer auxiliary services provided by any other school districts within such intermediate unit.
  4. Allocations. In July of 1975 and annually thereafter in July, the Secretary of Education shall allocate to each intermediate unit an amount equal to the number of nonpublic school students as of October 1 of the preceding school year who are enrolled in nonpublic schools within the intermediate unit times forty-five dollars ($45). The Secretary of Education shall increase this figure on a proportionate basis whenever the maximum reimbursable limit for the basic instructional subsidy under section 2502 of this act (presently seven hundred fifty dollars ($750) is increased. The Commonwealth shall pay to each intermediate unit fifteen per centum (15%) of its allocation on August 1, seventy-five per centum (75%) on October 1, and the remaining ten per centum (10%) on the first day of February.
  5. Limitations. The intermediate unit shall not use more than six per centum (6%) of the funds it receives for administration or eighteen per centum (18%) for rental of facilities. The Department of Education shall not use more than one per centum (1%) of the funds it allocates under this section for administrative expenses. If all funds allocated by the intermediate units to administration, or rental facilities are not expended for those purposes, such funds may be used for the program costs.
  6. Interest. There shall be no adjustment in the allocation as provided in subsection (d) because of interest earned on the allocations by the intermediate units. Interest so earned shall be used for the purpose of this section but shall not be subject to the limitations of subsection (e).
  7. Preliminary Budget. Annually, each intermediate unit shall submit to the secretary a preliminary budget on or before January 31 and a final budget on or before June 15, for the succeeding year: and shall file a final financial report on or before October 31 for the preceding year.

Section 3. Severability. If a part of this act is invalid, all valid parts that are severable from the invalid part remain in effect. If a part of this act is invalid, in one or more of its applications, the part remains in effect in all valid applications that are severable from the invalid applications.

Section 4. This act shall take effect immediately

APPROVED - The 1st day of August. A.D 1975.

MILTON I SHAPP

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