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Elim’s Essentials Program Revamped to Serve More

Feb 12, 2010

Elim’s Essentials program was revamped last year to better serve Elim’s students. Because of the increasing severity of disabilites of most students enrolling at Elim, the Essentials program was redesigned in order to meet the needs of a wider variety of students.

The Essentials program is part of a three step high school vocational program at Elim. The STEP program provides on the job training for students with disabilities while students additionally receive academic and classroom training each day.

Essentials provides training for students who, because of their disability are unable to go out and work in the community. Through the program, these students are taught skills needed to someday work in a workshop environment or developmental training program. Because many students have some level of sensory skills, the program gives them a chance to learn how to function in an environment with other people, noise, and distractions. They also learn to work as team.

Assistant principal Tim Griffin has been impressed to see the progress of students in the program saying, “It’s good to see students who were previously unable to do any sort of work-oriented skills learning now. Our goal is to increase these high school students life and vocational skills in order to make them as independent as possible!”