Page 8-B PROGRAM RESUMED Hearing testing is an important part of the screening process for identifying possible speech problems. Mary Lawrence, speech therapist, uses an audiometer to quickly test hearing of students. Testing Program Resumes After a year’s absence, the services of a speech therapist are once again available to students in the Edenton - Chowan Schools. Effoi last year to provide a H\r • *>ist to work with studenu are unsuccessful. In explaining the school system’s program, Mary Lawrence, therapist, stated that speech therapy is a support service, which is not considered a primary handicap, under the Ex ceptional Children’s program. Her main area or responsibility will be working with students displaying speech difficulty from kindergarten through the sixth grade or eighth grade, depending upon number of severity of cases. However some high school students with severe speech problems may be served. At present there are between 50 and 80 students who have been identified as experiencing difficulty with speech. Some of these students were identified in previous years and some have been identified since screening of exceptional children began early in the fall. The screening process continues and it is an ticipated that more students will be found when the DIAL screening, which includes speech and hearing, is conducted on all first graders within the next couple of weeks. Referrals for students generally come from the classroom teacher, who recognize quickly when children have problems. Local Group Wins Grant The Appalachian State University Center for Community Education, with aid of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, recently an nounced five $2,000 grants. The Chowan County Chapter of the N. C. Symphony listed among the recipients of the incentive grants awarded in North Carolina. According to Mary Rhea Gardner, local chapter official and Edenton - Chowan Schools Community Education Coordinator wrote a project proposal for the competitive grant. The five awards received across the state were selected from a field of 27 proposals submitted. “Needless to say,” Mrs. Gardner remarked, “with a local quota of $6,000 needed to bring a free education performance to Chowan County’s students and an evening concert for the community, we were delighted that our project was a winner.” The writing of project SCORE Symphony Concerts, an Objective for Rural Education - was an outgrowth of the school system’s Community Education program. One <rf the objectives of the program for 1981-82 was to organize a local Symphony Chapter which, on an annual basis will work to expose and toenstill in students and citizens an appreciation for symphonic music, a form of culture not readily available in the community. The Chowan County Chaper’s annual mem bership drive is now un derway for performances to be held January 2, 1982, at which time the John A. Frequently, as they are encouraged to do, parents will inform the school of existing speech deficiency and request that students receive services. Before any child is placed in the speech program, a thorough screening process is completed and parental permission received. During her two years experience, Lawrence, who received her B.S. degree in speech and hearing from the University of Tennessee, has found the most common form of speech disorder to be in the area of ar ticulation. “Eighty per cent of the students receiving help”, she said, ‘‘have trouble making their sounds correctly. Other areas of speech disorders with which the therapist will work generally fall in the categories of fluencing, i.e. stuttering; language, i.e. speech patterns and the way sentences are put together ; and voice i.e. harshness, etc. “if, in the voice area, physical causes are found to exist, recommendations for for medical referrals will be made to parents. Once all screening is done and students with speech disorders are identified, Lawrence will be working with the students two or three times each week either in small group sessions or individually where severe problems exist. Students with the most severe speech disorders will receive services four times each week. Holmes Concert Choir and the Edenton Choral Society will perform. All con tributions received before Sept. 30 in support of the effort, will be matched by $1 for every $2 from a challenge grant. All con tributions are tax deduc tible. Everyone needing more information concerning contributions or mem berships should contact Mrs. Bruce Wackelin, membership drive chair man, at 482-2792 or Mary Rhea Gardner at 482-4436 or Mrs. Jim Blount, president, at 482-4954. Bus Driver Training Set A bus driver training program is scheduled by Edenton • Chowan Schools on September 29 and Oc tobers. Anyone interested in becoming certified as a school bus driver should report to the office at John A. Holmes High School at 9 A. M. on each of these days. The two day classroom sessions will end at 3 P. M. on each of these days. Charles Phelps, Division of School Bus Safety, will conduct the classroom work. Road driving work sessions are not included during these two days. Time for this phase of the training program will be set by Phelps on an individual hasis. 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