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Student Services are designed to promote the students' continuous progress at school:
 By helping them overcome any difficulties which they may experience.
By ensuring their emotional, spiritual and physical well-being.
By contributing to the development of the students' autonomy, sense of responsibility and initiative.
Such services include:
Complementary Services
Special Education Services
Other Services
Acses
Complementary Services
1. Guidance Services
Personnel: Guidance Counsellors
Level: Secondary
Services: Counselling, evaluation, consultation, information, liaison, referral, follow-up;
maintenance of student dossiers, case conference presentations.
2. Psychological Services
Personnel: Psychologists/Guidance Consultants
Level: Elementary
Services: Identification, prevention, evaluation, consultation, counselling, liaison, referral
and follow-up; case conference presentations, maintenance of student dossiers.
3. Work Experience Program
Personnel: Administrative Technician
Level: Secondary
Services/Programs:
Career Exploration Program
Hospital Opportunity Program for Students (HOPS)
Board of Trade Outstanding Student Awards Program
4. Health Services
Personnel: Nurses, Dental Hygienists
Level: Elementary and Secondary
Services: consultation, screening, prevention, vaccinations, referral, health/vaccination
records, etc.
Herzl Teenage Health Unit Program
5. Social Services
Personnel: Social Workers *
Level: Elementary and Secondary
Services: Consultation, individual/group counselling, referral, crisis intervention
Youth Protection Services
English services -Batshaw Youth and Family Centres
French services
Les Centres jeunesse de Montréal
Inter-sectoral Sexual Abuse Protocol
* Identifies persons who are not Board personnel.
6. Drug Education Resource Services
Personnel: Drug Education Resource Worker
Level: Elementary and Secondary
Services: Consultation, workshops, information dissemination, selective individual and group
counselling, special projects (e.g. "Drinking and Driving", PRIDE Anti-Drug Program)
7. Speech and Language Services
Personnel: Speech and Language Consultants
Level: Elementary (selective interventions at secondary level)
Services: Screening, evaluation, consultation, home/school programs, therapeutic intervention, referral
Special Language Class Services (Parkdale school)
8. Oral Interpretation Services
Personnel: Oral interpreters
Level: Elementary and Secondary
Services: Provide one-on-one support to hearing- impaired students.
9. Spiritual Care and Guidance andCommunity Involement Service
Personnel: Spiritual, Religious and Moral Education Consultant
Level: Elementary and Secondary Students of All Faith and Cultural Traditions
Services: This support function is exercised within the school board and in schools as follows:
Organization of service development through needs analysis and growth action planning with animators on a regular basis at all
levels of structure (school, cluster, region, school board)
Organization of professional development for animators
Providing resource material and program kits to animators
Consultation and information on animation activities for animators
Organization and implementation of structure for service
Regular meetings with Regional Animation Teams
Consultation and information to parents, religious groups, and community organizations
Consultation on spiritual, moral issues and events of a spiritual or religious nature
Personnel: Spiritual Community Animators
Level: Elementary and Secondary Students of All Faith and Cultural Traditions
Services: Each spiritual community animator is responsible for the spiritual and communal
development of students in a cluster of schools within a region.
Develops and implements programs of activities of a community, humanitarian, spiritual and religious nature.
Organizes and implements spiritual services for special occasions in the schools.
Facilitates students' involvement in community.
Builds links between the students' spiritual life and community involvement.
Works on a regional and school board team with animators and consultant to plan, organize and implement a growth plan with
values, visions, themes, activities and projects for schools in a region.
Provides information and guidance to staff, parents, and students with respect to student's needs in terms of spiritual life
and community involvement.
* Identifies persons who are not Board personnel.
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Other Services
1. Derogations
Processing of parent requests for students who are considered candidates for early Kindergarten or Grade 1 entry
2. Form K (Bill 101 exemptions)
Trauma Team: Psychologists, guidance counsellors, social workers, ethnocultural community school workers, pastoral animators, etc.
3. Traumatic Events Support Team (T.E.S.T.) Services
Trauma Team: Psychologists, guidance counsellors, social workers, ethnocultural community school workers, pastoral animators, etc.
Services: Provides support to a school in crisis, develops a resource network, does follow-up, develops resource material.
4. Project Harbour
A school-based intervention team was created to assist and train teachers, administrators and support personnel in coping with
students exhibiting disruptive behaviours.
6. Second Start Program
This program, housed in the St-Raphael's Centre, is offered to students (10-12 year old) exhibiting severe disruptive behaviour
and social maladjustment.
7. Identification of at-risk students / recommendations for services.
This service comprises the identification of secondary students with behavioural problems and recommendations for appropriate services.
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Special Education Services
The Student Services Department is responsible for the coordination of the Board's special education programs. This involves the
following components:
1. Case conferences
Discussion and identification of appropriate services for students,
Development of the student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
2. Données complémentaires
Annual updating of students' difficulty codes
Submission to the MEQ for validation
3. Coordination between regular schools and Social Affairs schools
Hospitals e.g. Victoria High
Reception centers e.g. Cité des Prairies
Rehabilitation centers e.g. Mackay Center
4. Staffing of special education classes and allocation of human resources in collaboration with the Human Resources Department.
5. Organization of appropriate service delivery models in all schools - see Annex 1 - ''The Cascade System of Educational Services''
This cascade system of educational services is the preferred model for the schools of the English Montreal School Board. The model
of educational services is an adaptation of the one presented by B.R.Gearheart in Organization and Administration of Educational
Programs for Exceptional Children. (Springfield,I11. Thomas 1974, p. 242). The modification was the addition of level 5, i.e.,
student attends a self-contained class and is partially integrated in a regular class in a regular school.
6. Academic planning, adaptation of curriculum and development of a variety of teaching strategies for special needs students in
collaboration with Pedagogical Services.
7. Organization of staff training workshops (administrators, teachers, child care workers, etc.)
8. Implementation of the Education Act.
Ministry of Education Special Education Policy
English Montreal School Board Special Education Policy
Special Education Advisory Committee (ACSES)
9. Allocation and coordination of support personnel:
Child care workers or ISPJ workers
Oral interpreters
EMSB itinerant teachers
10. Special Education Committee. (EMSB)
11. Ententes
Hors réseau schools ( e.g. Summit, Peter Hall )
Inter-board agreements
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ACSES
Advisory Committee on Special Education Services
What is ACSES?
ACSES is an advisory committee on special education services. It has a legal mandate (Education Act, Section 185) to advise the
School Board on issues which affect children who are learning disabled, intellectually handicapped, hearing impaired, visually
impaired, physically handicapped or socially maladjusted.
Who are the members of ACSES?
ACSES is comprised of nine parents (Education Act, Section 186) representing children in each of the categories outlined above.
They are appointed by the Central Parents' Committee and constitute the majority of the membership, which also includes teachers, a
non-teaching professional, a specialized support person, a principal, a representative from an organization that provides services
to special needs students and officers of the School Board.
What does ACSES do?
ACSES has a continuous role to advise the School Board on issues arising from the delivery of educational services to special
needs students and the allocation of financial resources for those services (Education Act, Section 187).
ACSES networks with similar structures within other school boards across Quebec to share experiences and ideas.
ACSES welcomes correspondence from parents of special needs children regarding their experiences in furthering the education of
their children. Such correspondence provides ACSES with valuable information on issues that need to be addressed.
Correspondence can be sent to ACSES, c/o Communications Services, EMSB, 6000 Fielding Avenue, Montreal, QC H3X 1T4
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