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Show RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP. Gail Miles, left accepts scholarship schol-arship check from representatives of the Cedar City Central Cen-tral Unit of the PTA, Mrs. Bruce Osborne, center, and Mrs. Richard Leigh, right. Gail Miles Given PTA Scholarship This week the Cedar City Parent-Teachers Association Council pdesented a scholarship check to Gail Miles, East Elementary School Instructor, for the purpose I of taking special training in the area of Special Education. This will allow him to teach Special Education classes at Cedar High School in the fall of 19G5 under state certification. Funds for this scholarship came from contributions made by local PTA units. The community and especially the PTA of Cedar City have long been interested in improving this specific service to the community. The Special Education program first got underway in the Iron County School District about eight years ago. The class was held at East Elementary but drew children from the entire city. ci-ty. Because of the lack of trained teachers, the program was not able to expand as rapidly as it was hoped. However, through the efforts of dedicated teachers, the PTA and other concerned people, the program has gradually expanded ex-panded so that today there are three units being taught by state certified teachers, with a fourth scheduled to begin in the fall at Cedar High. The three units are: Primary unit at North Elementary, Elemen-tary, taught by Mrs. Cleo Edwards. Ed-wards. Intermediate unit at East Elementary, Ele-mentary, taught by Mrs. Alice Truman. Advanced unit at Cedar Junior Jun-ior High, taught by Ken Benson. The State of Utah allows the district one distribution unit for each class of 8-15 students. The whole school program of the Iron County School District is designed to provide for individual needs, and these Special Education Educa-tion classes are a further attempt in that direction by helping children who have greater problems pro-blems to more nearly reach their potential. Because they are in a small group situation, the teacher teach-er can give them more individual individ-ual attention. Superintendent Ianthus Wright indicated that this was a much-needed much-needed service in the district and that without the encouragement of teachers and the help of the PTA it could not be possible. Assistant As-sistant Superinendent Joe A. Keidhead stated, "How wonderful wonder-ful it is to see this need fulfilled and how thankful we are to the PTA for helping make it possible." poss-ible." It is hoped that all parents with handicapped children will give that information to the school census -takers as soon after af-ter birth as possible. There Is a special place on the census card to record this. These children can then be located easily and assistance as-sistance given them early in the pre-school years through the Health Clinics, then later in Special Spe-cial Education classes. In this way they will be given every op- nortunitv tn itavplnn thmsilyAa anil more nearly realize their potentials. |
