NJEDDA’s Elementary and Middle School Program serves students ages 5 through 14 who have complex developmental disabilities. Using a team approach, we provide special education, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.
Our curriculum is aligned with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, allowing our teachers and specialists to develop appropriate goals and objectives for each student in academic subject areas such as language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
The elementary school uses the Unique Curriculum, a web-based comprehensive special education curriculum based on the standards.
Like their peers in public schools, students grade 3 through 8 take part in standardized assessments such as New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (SLA) and New Jersey Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) – with individualized modifications and accommodations as needed.
Students benefit from Augmentative Communication and the latest in technology-enhanced instruction. Each child is evaluated to determine his or her unique learning styles, and to identify the types of technology that will make a difference. Our multidisciplinary staff team of therapists (occupational, physical and speech), nurses, and social workers, consult and collaborate with teachers to ensure the student’s instructional, therapeutic, social and medical needs are met.
Our staff also works cooperatively with the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI) to help ensure that students with visual impairments have access to the classroom and home resources they needs, and to effective instruction techniques.
What Are NJEDDA Parents Saying?
I am so happy to see how my son has progressed. I can see all the hard working that the therapists do with him at home. He is more cooperative at home.
My daughter has blossomed and matured so much since she has been attending NJEDDA. The teachers, staff and the therapist have been nothing but loving and patient with her. The pre-equestrian program has been a wonderful addition to her already existing therapies.
I am so grateful for all the help that the social worker has provided me. She always helps me when I need her; from helping me fill out paperwork to making phone calls when I do not know what to do.
