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The Burke County Student Services Department provides Psychological Services and Special Education Services for students with disabilities.

The Burke County School System provides over 75 highly trained teachers and paraprofessionals to serve the needs of our students with disabilities. Services range from consultation, where the student is only monitored by their case manager and spends the entire day in a general education classroom, to self-contained/alternate site services for those needing intensive assistance.

Most of our students are served in "inclusion" classrooms. These are general education classrooms with a second teacher or paraprofessional who provides additional instruction or co-teaching for the whole class, in small groups, or on an individual basis for the disabled student. We also have outside agency personnel to serve students with physical, motor, or sensory needs. For eligible, identified students, services can begin as early as age 3 and can continue until graduation if needed.

The primary goal of this department is to provide assistance to students in becoming independent learners and ultimately fully functioning adults.