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Infographic on Special Needs for the assisted school in Cartagena, Colombia, Colegio Jorge Washington. In general the school can support students whos needs are MILD to MODERATE. The school is able and willing to accommodate students within the follow categories: Physically or Orthopedically impaired, Autistic, Specifically Learning Disabled, Intellectually Disabled, Behaviorally/Emotionally Disabled, Multiple disabilities, other health impairment, speech language disabled. Special Needs support services include: Teacher Accommodations, Teacher Accommodations, Learning Support Teacher, Learning Support Teacher, Co-teaching, team teaching the in classroom, academic support/ secondary school, support for special needs preschoolers, use of IEP or ILP. Maximum hours of push in support 4 and pull out support 4. Special Needs Support Staff includes: 4 nurses, 5 psychologists, 5 learning support teachers, and 1 guidance counselor. The following services are available at post in English: psychoeducational assessment, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, Behavior/Autism Specialist (ABA, etc.) Social Skills Group, US credentialed reading specialist, reading remediation, reading programs for dyslexia (ortho gilligham, etc), math specialist.

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