Students with Multiple Disabilities

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The Bangor Regional Program for Students with Multiple Disabilities provides special education programming for students who have severely to profoundly delayed cognitive disabilities.  

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Daily instruction emphasizes the development of functional living skills, communication skills and social and emotional skill.

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Enhancing the quality of student lives while maximizing their ability to communicate and interact with others while engaged in activities of daily living, is major component of the instructional program.

• The Bangor Regional Program provides a comprehensive educational program designed to maximize language and communication skills, continue growth and development of sensory motor skills, fine and gross motor skills and increase activities of daily living.
• Special education teachers collaborate with related services providers to integrate physical therapy, occupational therapy and communication therapy activities into lessons which are implemented throughout the day.
• Special education teachers collaborate with regular education teachers and integrate students into mainstream activities as determined appropriate and beneficial for each students including opportunities for peer socialization.
• Special education teachers provide parent training to facilitate carry over of the learned skills into the home setting.

The Program is implemented in Bangor Public Schools and special  education services are  provided at the following  schools:

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• Grades 5-8: William S. Cohen School, 304 Garland Street, Bangor, Maine
• Grades 9-12:  Bangor High School, 885 Broadway Avenue, Bangor, Maine

• Self-Contained Classroom
• State of the art physical therapy equipment
• State of the art assistive technology
• Classroom computers
• Promethean boards
• Hoya lifts
• Close captioning decoders
• Access to therapeutic swimming pools at the Bangor YMCA and the Elizabeth Levinson Center

• Certified special education teachers
• Speech and language therapist
• Educational Technicians
• Adaptive physical education teachers
• Occupational Therapist
• Physical Therapist
• Assistive technology consultant
• Special Education Administrator
• Part-time Secretary
• Psychologist
• Nursing services