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Residential Program

Alamogordo Campus

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The residential school is located at our historic campus in Alamogordo, NM. This campus serves students from PreK through graduation. To ensure a robust education, programming includes intensive instruction with focus on both core curriculum, which is tied to the national common core standards, and the expanded core curriculum, which was created specifically for students with visual impairments or blindness to address learning that cannot be done incidentally with vision. Students are provided specialized and individualized instruction that includes multi-sensory experiences, opportunities for repeated instruction as needed, and a variety of hands-on educational activities that support real-life connections. Learning opportunities extend beyond the classroom to daily living and post-secondary skills, while also emphasizing and providing recreational/leisure activity opportunities, such as after-school sports, skiing, camping, sewing, and other activities led by student interest.

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The residential school is located at our historic campus in Alamogordo, NM. This campus serves students from PreK through graduation. To ensure a robust education, programming includes intensive instruction with focus on both core curriculum, which is tied to the national common core standards, and the expanded core curriculum, which was created specifically for students with visual impairments or blindness to address learning that cannot be done incidentally with vision. Students are provided specialized and individualized instruction that includes multi-sensory experiences, opportunities for repeated instruction as needed, and a variety of hands-on educational activities that support real-life connections. Learning opportunities extend beyond the classroom to daily living and post-secondary skills, while also emphasizing and providing recreational/leisure activity opportunities, such as after-school sports, skiing, camping, sewing, and other activities led by student interest.

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The residential school is located at our historic campus in Alamogordo, NM. This campus serves students from PreK through graduation. To ensure a robust education, programming includes intensive instruction with focus on both core curriculum, which is tied to the national common core standards, and the expanded core curriculum, which was created specifically for students with visual impairments or blindness to address learning that cannot be done incidentally with vision. Students are provided specialized and individualized instruction that includes multi-sensory experiences, opportunities for repeated instruction as needed, and a variety of hands-on educational activities that support real-life connections. Learning opportunities extend beyond the classroom to daily living and post-secondary skills, while also emphasizing and providing recreational/leisure activity opportunities, such as after-school sports, skiing, camping, sewing, and other activities led by student interest.


 

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Students we serve 

The residential campus serves students within a 50-mile area who attend during the day and students from around the state who attend and reside on campus Monday-Friday with travel home for weekends, holidays, and summer vacation. Residential programming may begin in 3rd grade, based on IEP team decision; younger students may attend as day students. For students who do not require full-time programming, NMSBVI offers a variety of other programming and support options.

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Referrals

Referral to NMSBVI must be made by the student’s home school district who serves as the Local Education Agency (LEA). Upon referral, NMSBVI will request documents such as the current IEP, an eye report, functional visual evaluation/learning media assessment, and any other pertinent educational documentation.

 

 

NMSBVI staff then complete an observation of the student in their current learning environment and interview the family and LEA team.

 

The NMSBVI admissions committee reviews the collected information and makes a recommendation to the LEA.

 

Admission considerations include the need for specific vision/compensatory-related objectives and goals, visual/compensatory needs related to academic and the ECC, and the ability to provide safe transportation to and from the campus.

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