Our school
houses one (1) section of each Kindergarten through 6th grade. We
have our own high school and work with 6 different colleges for PSEO courses
along with neighboring Fairmont school district for additional elective course offerings
for students in grades 9-12. Diplomas are granted from the Truman Public
School. We offer Title I services to
students in grades K-12. We also offer
specialized programming as described below.
Truman
Public School has an independent Special Education program that is staffed within
the district. There are currently 4
licensed K-12 special education teachers.
We also have an ECSE teacher who is licensed B-12. We work with students that have a variety of
needs and are able to offer extra services in the form of DAPE, developmental
and adaptive PE long with all of the state required programs. These programs include: Developmental Delay (0-6), Autism Spectrum
Disorder, Specific Learning Disability, Emotional, Behavior Disability, and
Developmental Cognitive Delay Disability.
We have a teacher specifically designated for level three (3) behavior
services if needed for upper level elementary and high school. We offer services in Speech and Language
Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy. We have contracts with the Mayo Health
System, Mankato, Minnesota and Minnesota State University, Mankato for
services. The district if needed can access services for Deaf and Hard of
Hearing from the Riverbend Educational District, New Ulm, Mn. and also work
with specialists from the South Central Cooperative and the Minnesota
Department of Education for students with Traumatic Brain Injury. We have a licensed school psychologist that
does all of the intellectual testing for our evaluations. She is also able to offer parents assessment
indicators for possible ADHD, depression, anxiety and autism disorder. Our staff has a vast array of experience in
all of these areas.
Our Early
Learning Wing boasts a daycare program for children age 6 weeks to 12 years and
holds both a center based school age license and a family based license for those
children under school age. The district
offers a 3-year-old pre-school program that offers many scholarships so all can
attend regardless of income. The district also coordinates and offers a 4-year-old
pre-school program that was chosen by the state to be funded through Voluntary
Pre-school state funds and is a 4 STAR parent aware program as recognized by
the Minnesota Department of Education. This is offered at no charge to families.
Truman Public School has a fully staffed Early
Childhood Special Education team consisting of the teacher who is also licensed
in LD and ASD, a speech pathologist, as well as OT/PT specialists that work
together to provide assessments and instructional programming for children
birth to 6 years old. Children are
referred to the program through parental requests, human services organizations
and/or medical facilities. Lastly the
Early Learning Wing offers Early Childhood Family Education services. Families that participate have weekly evening
sessions with a parent/child educator and the children get additional time and are
brought for 3 hours per week during the day for socialization.
Our district also has a designated Federal 504
administrator and Licensed School Nurse, (RN) available to provide medical and
academic accommodations that do not require an official IEP. Our district is also one of a few in the
state granted funding for an Alternative Delivery Student Intervention System
(ADSIS) program. This program allows for
students that are not officially in a special education program but need extra
help to work with special education staff and have paraprofessional support if
applicable in order to make gains without an official IEP. We are very prepared
to work with a variety of specialized student needs along with having a regular
education program for students in grades K-12.
