Friends Like Me

GOAL:
To provide each student with an opportunity to develop skills and understanding through a variety of lessons, exercises, sports, and leisure activities that will serve them throughout their life.

PURPOSE:
A structured program for children ages 1 month through18 years who have been identified as disabled and determined to be at-risk of not achieving academic and life skills without intervention.

ELIGIBLE:
Children are eligible if they meet state criteria as a child with a disability. The disabilities are: orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, auditory impairment, visual impairment, deaf-blind, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, learning disability, speech impairment, autism, multiple disabilities, noncategorical early childhood, and minor brain injury.

SERVICES:
Services for children include daily structured activities to develop language (expressive and receptive), cognitive, social/emotional, motor (fine and gross motor), and self-help skills. Additional services include transportation, assistive technology.