SPECIAL EDUCATION
As the name suggests, this from of education specializes its delivery and provides individualized access. Special education tailors learning and provides individualized access for students with a range of disabilities. Through… various forms of adaptive teaching and modified equipment offerings, students receive the tools necessary so they can achieve classroom success.
The Beaverton Education Foundation supports customized instruction through grantmaking, facilitating corporate match opportunities, and crowd sourced fundraising. Contributions from BEF’s generous donor, The Hoover Family Foundation, made the following projects possible during the 2022-2023 school year.
Equipping Augmentative and Alternative Communication Modeling
In BEF’s second year supporting Specialized Program Classrooms we were able to expand the availability of iPads to provide modeling devices and the most-widely used Augmentative and Alternative Communication apps to classrooms throughout Beaverton.
The district provides electronic communication tools to over 100 students, but does not have the means to provide their teachers and Speech Language Pathologists with equivalent tools and materials in order to model language and device use for these students.
Modeling, or the use of Aided Language Stimulation, has shown over and over to be an important element in the acquisition of augmented language and device competence. Last year, Phase 1 provided traveling Speech Language Pathologists with iPads and apps that are used by many of the students, which has fundamentally changed the way they are able to support learning.
This year, Phase 2 brought location specific modeling iPads to classrooms throughout Beaverton, allowing both traveling and school specific educators access to necessary language stimulation equipment.
Students from Hiteon Elementary’s Emotional Growth Class (EGC) grew closer while learning life skills with support to refurbish and expand their garden. The refreshed space helped students learn about plant cycles, weather, insects and working together.
Literacy instruction helps all students!
Special education students with significant disabilities in middle and elementary schools throughout the district will develop stronger reading and writing skills and be able to contribute to the larger school community, thanks to new tools for comprehensive instruction.
Each academic year, BEF mobilizes community resources and strives to fund classroom projects at all 54 Beaverton public schools and to impact every student’s education through our after school and summer cornerstone programs. Funds donated pay for programs and projects not mandated or funded by the state, but ones parents and dedicated educators consider necessary for a quality education.
See how donors like you have made a difference throughout the district.