Program Goals

• To declassify students with moderate to severe language delays by third grade
• Reduce the amount of pull-out speech-language services
• Pull-out services are ONLY for students with articulation, fluency or voice disorders, in addition to their language disorder
  • Articulation disorders may ONLY be mild to moderately delayed

LEAD is offered Kindergarten through 2nd grade

• General education teacher is supported by a speech-language therapist who is full-time in the classroom

Classrooms follow the General Education Curriculum

• Intensive language remediation embedded in all content areas
• IEP goals are language-based academic goals
• Pragmatic language targeted through social skills curriculum

The following criteria need to be met:

• Student meets the criteria for the speech-language impaired classification as defined by PART 200 of New York State Commissioner’s Regulation and district criteria
• Dominant language is English
• Language delay is the PRIMARY concern adversely affecting academics
• Expressive language standard score is 80 or below
• Receptive language standard score is equivalent to or higher than the expressive language standard score
• Nonverbal standard score on cognitive assessment is 80 or above
• If adaptive behavior scale has been completed – standard score is 80 or above
• Social-emotional functioning, as demonstrated by classroom behavior, is age-appropriate
• Pragmatic language/social skills functioning is age-appropriate OR is viewed as secondary to the language disorder