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Continuum of Services

GPISD provides a continuum of specially designed instructional services to meet the needs of students with disabilities from 3-21 years of age. Special education services include mainstream instructional settings to self-contained instructional settings, and related services. Services provided in special programs are designed to allow individual students access to specially designed instruction that has increased intensity, frequency, and duration in the student’s area of need. These services are designed to allow students to develop the academic, functional, social-emotional, or behavioral skills needed to access and make progress on the general or alternate curriculum as appropriate. 

Instructional settings are determined based on the special education supports and services provided to a student and not the location in which those services are provided. If required, special education services may take place in an instructional setting deemed a specialized program. Additionally, educational disability does not determine placement but rather the manifestation of the student’s disability and need. Special education services and support may require a change of placement to include a change from a student’s home campus to another campus located in the school district. Specialized programs are located on age-appropriate campuses throughout the district and offer smaller student-to-teacher ratios, individualized instruction to target IEP goals and objectives, and specially trained instructional staff.