 Located in Los Angeles County, and serving students enrolled in San Gabriel Valley school districts including Glendale and Pasadena, Hillsides Education Center is a specialized day program that provides highly structured, educational and therapeutic programs that include a behavior management component. The school primarily services students with mild to moderate emotional disturbances and learning disabilities, including high functioning Autism and Asperser’s Syndrome.
Our goals are to:
• Improve reading, writing, phonics, and math skills for children who are severely emotionally disturbed, developmentally delayed and/or have a learning disability;
• Enable students to catch up to their appropriate grade levels;
• Expand our students’ abilities to think logically, to deduct and to reason; and
• Expand our students’ abilities to identify and solve problems.
HEC also provides vocational education and group activities such as music therapy and physical education. At each Individualized Education Plan (IEP) meeting, the team reviews the appropriateness of the student’s placement in accordance with the Free and Appropriate Public Education. This includes academic, social/emotional and behavioral issues. The IEP team considers and documents such issues as peer and adult relationships, academic abilities with respect to performance, and students’ behavioral issues.
The special education needs of the students at HEC are met through the high special education teacher to student ratio (1:3), the individual education plan and personalized academic curriculum, the special academic enrichment electives, and extracurricular activities. Seven classrooms accommodate 10 to 12 students per class.
In addition to regular coursework preparing our students for a high school diploma, HEC provides:
• A vocational training program that assesses our students’ strengths and preferences and prepares them for post-secondary vocational certification programs
• Sports programs open to all the children, and
• Extracurricular activities and clubs |
