Mission Statement:
To create a positive, supportive educational environment that provides opportunities for sensory impaired students to reach individual potential in the areas of academics, independence, responsibility, and social competence. This will be accomplished through the implementation of appropriate curricula, utilizing specialized communication and equipment, directed by a cooperative, specially trained faculty and staff supported by parents and the community.
Motto:
Striving together at the Regional School
Teaching Learning Growing Succeeding
History:
Members of the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County approved the establishment of the Southwest Alabama Regional School for the Deaf and Blind on June 29, 1979. Based on evaluations made by local administrators, the State Superintendent of Education and members of the Mobile County Legislative Delegation, the board voted to establish and operate the school on the Baker School campus as part of the Mobile County Public School System. To fulfill the regional aspects of the programs, the school was given the responsibility of providing direct and support services in Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, and Washington counties.
Curriculum:
The Regional School provides a variety of educational programs to meet the needs of all sensory impaired students enrolled in the Mobile County Public School System. These programs include:
A. Regular class placement at the child's local school or on the Baker campus with direct or indirect services from an itinerant resource teacher of the vision and hearing impaired (with an interpreter, if needed, for deaf students).
B. Partial regular class placement and partial placement in a class for the vision or hearing impaired.
C. Self-contained classes designed around the basic goals of the general curriculum for vision or hearing impaired students.
Personnel:
Seventy percent of the staff at the Regional School hold advanced degrees. Academic instruction is provided by teachers who hold certification in the areas of vision, hearing, or special education. Certified personnel provide services in audiology, orientation and mobility, occupational therapy, adapted physical education, speech and language therapy, sign language interpreting, vocational education and counseling.
Partners in Education:
The following businesses/comunity organizations serves as our partners:
Bel Air Kiwanis
Forest Hill Lions Club
Adaptive Solutions
Information
about referral for services from the Regional School