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2023 Special Needs Brazil, Belo Horizonte

March 31, 2023

Infographic for special needs education at Belo Horizonte for the assisted school Escola Americana Belo Horizonte. In general, the school can support students whose learning support needs are MILD. The school is able and willing to accommodate students within the following categories: physically and orthopedically impaired, autistic, specifically learning disabled, intellectually disabled, behaviorally/emotionally disturbed, multiple disabilities, speech or language impaired. Special needs support services include: teacher accommodations, teacher accommodations learning support teacher, learning support teacher, co-teaching/team teaching in the classroom, academic support class secondary school, use of IEP and ILP. The school has a self-contained classroom for all grades. Maximum hours per week per student for push in 6 for pull out 5. Special needs support staff in the school include: 2 nurses, 2 psychologists, 2 special needs coordinators, 3 learning support teachers, 2 guidance counselors. Services are available in English at post for the following: psychoeducational assessment, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, behavior and/or autism specialist, social skills group/social skills training, US credentialed reading specialist, reading remediation, reading programs for Dyslexia, math specialist. The school can provide the following: 1:1 classroom aide.

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