Student Services
Special Education Unit 
The Gap State School is proud of its reputation as an inclusive school, which provides programs that cater for all students. Staffed with specialist teachers and teacher aides, the Special Education Unit assists students with disabilities to engage in school life by:
- working collaboratively with classroom teachers to optimise learning opportunities for all
- providing individualised learning and behaviour programs
- promoting positive relationships between students
- developing productive partnerships between
the students, their families and the school community.
Within our school, the Special Education Unit is referred to by the more child-friendly term of SNAP
(Special Needs Assistance Program).
Guidance and Counselling
A Guidance Officer visits our school each week. The Guidance Officer is a member of the Special Needs Committee, and provides a range of services to the school including assessments, behavioural support, liaison with other medical or health professionals, counselling to students and their families and adult education e.g. parenting skills and Support a Reader.
The Guidance Officer also works in other schools in this cluster as well as supporting schools elsewhere. Our Guidance Officer also works in the Management of Young Children Program (MYCP) at the Enoggera Parenting Centre.
Learning Support
The Learning Support program is designed to assist students who require additional support in literacy and numeracy development. These students are identified through close monitoring of student progress each year by class teachers and the Special Needs Committee.
Students identified with significant delays in their academic attainments are supported through a range of intervention programs. The Support Teacher: Learning Difficulties works on specific programs with classroom teachers in and outside the classroom. Other programs may also be offered to students, including Phonemic Awareness Training; Supporting Kids in Literacy Learning (SKILL); MultiLit (phonics and sight word recognition); Spelling Mastery; and individualised numeracy programs.
Speech and Language Therapy
The Gap State School has limited access to speech therapy services. Student assessments, reviews, home programs and term blocks of therapy may be offered to students. This service is provided according to the level of need as identified through a referral process. Two Speech Language Therapists are based at the school and provide support throughout the cluster of schools.
Specialist Support Teachers
Specialist teachers are available to the school where there is a student need. These specialists include:
- English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers support students who come to our school with a different first language.
- Behaviour Management teachers support students with significant behaviours that influence their opportunity to learn.
Advisory visiting teachers (AVTs) are teachers who have specialist knowledge and skills. AVTs play a key role in the delivery of quality education to children with disabilities whose specialist educational support needs have been ascertained levels 1-6.
They support students who have educational needs as a result of their disability in the areas of:
- autistic spectrum disorder
- hearing impairment
- intellectual impairment
- physical impairment
- vision impairment
- speech-language impairment
Contact
To make contact with any of the above specialist teachers please phone the school office on 3511 3333.
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