Carman Road School

The PTA plays an important role in your child’s academic life. We support academics as well as venues for socialization and entertainment. The PTA is the major backer for almost all of the events that take place at school. Through various fundraisers, during the year we are able to provide students with parties, dances, class trips, cultural arts assemblies, ice cream socials, ices, and pumpkins to name just a few. We cannot stress enough the importance of having a strong, committed PTA unit that has a diverse membership of PARENTS and STAFF alike. We encourage you and invite you to be a part of this fun.

We cannot stress enough the importance of having a strong, committed PTA unit that has a diverse membership of PARENTS and STAFF alike. We encourage you and invite you to be a part of this fun and hard-working team.

The Flu Shot: Guide for Parents to Keep Your Child Healthy and Safe

GET THE FLU SHOT EVERY YEAR
(recommended for all 6 months and older every year)

FLU CARE:

• Rest and Lots of Fluids
• Fever-reducing medicine as ordered by your doctor
• Tissues to be used with coughing and sneezing
• IF NO tissues, cough or sneeze into the sleeve of your arm

RETURN TO SCHOOL IF:

• Your child has no fever for 24 hours without fever-reducing prescribed by your doctor.
• Your child feels well for 24 hours

YOUR CHILD MAY NOT COME TO SCHOOL IF HE OR SHE HAS THE FLU

FLU FACTS:

• The flu is a virus that causes an infection of the nose, throat and lungs.
• The flu is spread from person to person by coughing, sneezing or runny nose.
• The flu can be spread from one day before getting sick and up to 5 days after getting sick.
• The flu comes on suddenly.
• The flu signs and symptoms are: fever, fatigue, headache, stomach problems and diarrhea.

Carman Road Occupational Therapy

School-based occupational therapists use meaningful activities (“occupations”) to help our students become more independent in the school environment. We work on improving students’ physical, cognitive, psychosocial, fine motor and sensory processing skills to achieve their goals. 

OT Summer Resources

Sensory Room

Occupational Therapists utilize the Sensory Room for students' individual needs. This room incorporates Music (either soft or fast), sequenced lights, vibroacoustic mats and chairs, as well as projections provide a sensory experience for the student.

Assistive Technology Department

The Assistive Technology Department works cooperatively with the student’s treating OT and PT, parents, and vendors experienced with providing adapted equipment to children with special needs. Weekly clinics operate on site with outside vendors to service children with adaptive equipment needs. The professional staff assist parents in providing written justification to support the insurance approval process. The Orthotic Clinic evaluates students for lower extremity and foot correction through use of orthotics. 

These students are experiencing the freedom of independent movement in their own brand new equipment. What a feeling of independence! Self-initiated navigation of their environment is an empowering experience!!

Assessment, training, evaluation and insurance justification support is provided by the Assistive Technology staff at Carman Road School. Two of our providers have the Assistive Technology Professional Credential, a competitive certification issued by the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America, rendering them uniquely qualified to assist your child with his/her equipment needs. Contact your child's therapist, or the Assistive Technology department at (516) 608-6256, for further information.

Carman Road School Speech & Language Therapy

Speech and Language therapists utilize a whole language approach in all areas of the student’s environment. Our program is equipped with Core Vocabulary, PECS, and specializes in Augmentative Alternative Communication Devices. Speech therapists work together with the student's team to provide consultation for carry over of communication skills in the classroom. 

Mealtime Management

The Mealtime Management Team works in collaboration with speech and occupational therapists to help provide proper positioning of the student as well as adaptive equipment when appropriate to maintain a safe pleasurable mealtime environment. 

Diet Prescription

Adaptive Physical Education

We are looking forward to providing your child with an exciting and rewarding Adapted Physical Education Program.

Students are provided with a variety of ways to enjoy being physically active by incorporating adaptive equipment and movement activities based on monthly themes and units. All physical activities are differentiated to meet all students' abilities. Students actively participate in spirit weeks, relay races and field day.

Environmental Education

Environmental lessons are aligned to the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. Units cover science, social studies and art themes. Props, vocabulary word boards, picture cards, text books, e-books, interactive games, smartboard, ipad and photos supplement all lessons. Individual student disabilities are addressed and adapted devices and equipment, hand-over-hand assistance and auditory switches are used to ensure optimal participation.

Students plant seeds and learn about cultivating a garden in the greenhouse and on our school campus. We grow vegetables including pumpkins, flowers and herbs. Lessons are taught about pet care and students help feed and clean the tanks and ponds for our fish, frogs, tortoises and turtles. We raise butterflies in the Spring and study a variety of animals throughout the year. They learn about the importance and impact of recycling on the environment and promote it in the building. Holidays and seasons cover social study units and students participate in special school-wide events to highlight the calendar and history.

Music

The Carman Road School Music Program provides wonderful opportunities for our students to appreciate a variety of musical pieces as well as interact with music through instruments. Students experience music in a variety of ways, such as singing/dancing, exploring instruments and even body percussion. Music helps support social skills, fine and gross motor skills while reinforcing students' goals. Students participate in yearly concerts.

Vocational and Life Skills Program

The Vocational and Life Skills program is designed to provide students with opportunities to practice a variety of hands-on, real life experiences.

Middle school and high school students participate in our Vocational Lab where they practice skills such as sorting, collating, money skills, and restocking items in the school store. Some students participate in shopping at local stores in our community, such as Stop and Shop and BJ’s, while others work at voluntary community jobs such as Coldwell Banker, John’s Crazy Socks, and The Backyard Players Front Porch Market. Students that do not work at jobs in the community work in simulated work environments within the school, such as the school store, making deliveries, and collecting recycling.

Students that work in the Vocational Lab receive a "paycheck" each week and can use that paycheck to purchase something at the school store.

Life skills lessons are offered to students of all ages in our Life Skills room, where they practice doing laundry, folding clothes, setting the table, shopping in a simulated grocery store, and making a simple meal in the kitchen.

The ultimate goal of the Vocational and Life Skills Program is to have our students become as independent as possible for their eventual transition to life after high school.