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Show Page Thursday , Mowed Students Aided by Tests Students sent to Moweda Youth Home by area law enforcement agencies and courts sometimes have not attended regular school classes for years, though they are often much younger than the age when they can legally leave public school. Vik Arnold, an educator at Moweda, said the center has developed a diagnostic system of tests to help determine each individual students problems and capabilities in an effort to help him and the school system formulate a program that works for him. Arnold and Cheryl Nash are generalists, teachers with training in the field of special education, hired by the Weber School District to conduct educational programs at Moweda. In the past, the center did not become involved in extensive testing of students, but in recent months it has become almost a clearing house in the area of education for those juveniles who have gotten themselves in trouble with law enforcement agencies. In the past, there has been a lot of testing done on these kids, by schools, ROY courts, boys the youth ranches, development center and other agencies, Arnold said. But there was little coordination and often the same tests were done over and over with results never passed on to the appropriate agency." The testing is part of an overall at- tempt to formulate an individual education program for students who need special attention. All school districts are required by 2 to offer special Public Law education to all those who can be classified in one or more special education categories. Those categories include youth with learning disabilities, those who are behaviorally handicapped, the educable mentally retarded and some with physical handicaps. We analyze every student in each area and try to formulate a plan of attack according to his needs, Arnold said. Initial tests include hearing and sight analysis and several types of tests designed to determine present level of academic achievement, mental ability or IQ, and personality traits. Further screening may be done if a student shows marked deficiency in any one area, but most do not, Arnold said. Education Program Helps Area Children Pre-Kindergart- en ROY Entering school is a big but its even plunge for any child more difficult for the youngster with special problems that may hamper their educational progress. But in the Weber School District there is a new program that is making the transition a little less who need a formidable for little extra help. The Kindergarten Success Program is being offered at H., Guy Child The School. preElementary kindergarten students will be taught by Linda Ward and the program is administered by the districts student services department. Geared to help children who may have emotional, motor skill or language gives problems, the youngsters a year of development and preparation before plunging into the competitive environment of public education. The goal of the program is to help H. pJ?v. vs.' preschoolers pick up the necessary skills to make school life and interaction with their peer group a successful experience. Children accepted into the program are carefully screened to detect a specific learning difficulty. Each child is then given an individualized program to fit his or her learning need. The program is funded through state allocation of federal education monies. District officials report that due to the funding limitations the program is only able to serve a limited number of students. Mrs. Ward states that a preschoolers development follows a predictable pattern in which a child can successfully be prepared for the experience of school and how to cope creatively with that environment. Parents interested in looking into the program for their children are invited to contact the Weber School District at 394-666- Detention centers in Salt Lake City and Provo have adopted Mowedas system of testing. Some problems are compounded by physical impairments such as a hearing deficit, but most are brought about by the student missing regular school classes for a period of time, often for more than a year. For some reason, often including an unstructured home life and some learning disabilities, the kid has fallen behind those of his own age, develops a and just simply drops poor out, Arnold said. School has become a source of pain and frustration. They sometimes go into the school office and say they are moving and wont be attending that school any more, and they just quit going, Arnold self-imag- e, said. School personnel make no further contacts, and the kid sometimes gets a job or just starts hanging around the streets. Parents sometimes dont know or some of them condone it. This type of situation can develop in children of junior high school age, as well as those older. The scenario often involves kids who should have been getting some type of special education, remedial work or something, but have been getting nothing, Arnold said. He said he is not critical of public schools, however. Its much easier for me to see problems, he said. I have only about not 30 10 or 12 kids in here at one time or 35 like a public school teacher has. He said learning disabilities often dont show up in children in earlier grades, because they have to do with reading and math skills which are not used extensively until nearly junior high level. The involvement of detention centers Moweda and those centers in Salt has helped Lake City and Provo spark a feeling of better cooperation between other juvenile agencies as well. Arnold and Ms. Nash have started a program of regular attendance at court when probation officers staffings and representatives of other groups and agencies meet to discuss possible programs to help individual juvenile offenders. Its a brainstorming session, Arnold said. Cheryl and I sit in on the sessions and try to give some insights 1 1 A Lakeside Review September 4, 1980 StfeaiM into the educational needs and problems a student has, and we can learn a lot about his background and ALLIGATOR UNTIL ' home life. We all work together to help decide the right placement for the kid. This type of cooperation is vital, because these kids are experts at Arnold deception and manipulation, said. Arnold said sometimes a student is infound to have above-averag- e telligence but performs academically up to six years below his proper grade level. Learning disabilities are not related to intelligence, Arnold said. They are specific problems that can be minimized or cured. Since the average length of stay at Moweda is only one week, the testing process is often just completed when the student leaves. So the results of the tests, along with a recommended individualized education program go with the student when he is placed in a rehabilitative program or returned to regular school. That recommendation may be for a gifted student program, rather than for a remedial class. Some kids who get into trouble are Arnold said. exceptionally bright, ' They become bored with school and start sluffing. Often these kids get into IL..? drugs. Arnold and Ms. Nash stay in contact with teachers and administrators at the v students school. Most are very willing 4 to make compensations to help the kid, Arnold said. We can kind of serve as a liaison MOWEDA COUNSELOR, Marcus Morrell gives individual attention to a between the student, the school and the student during regular classroom sessions at the youth home. court, Arnold said. The two educators also operate a regular classroom at the detention center, with individual programs for each student, which allow him to work Oil, at the speed and level best for him. Water-base- d creams The kids are often hostile toward the school situation at first, but we have a and lotions may actually WET CONCRETE if they dont come dry the skin of the elderly captive audience water the to school they have to sit in their room, when Lubricants evaporates. so they come, Arnold said. oil base are the with an a of when We have a system payoffs CONCPBTE best for sensitive older student achieves a certain level or oils And mineral skin. Fairfield Layton N. 2961 achievement, and we can give him a lot may be better than soap he said. of attention, Tel. 773-982- 2 because they rinse off A (EXPIRES SEPT. 30, 1980) Ive had a lot of kids tell me before more thoroughly. they leave that they wish they could come here to school all the time, Arnold said. 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