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Special
Education: Mauzy
School Visually Impaired Resource Center
(VIRC)
The regional office is located at Mauzy School in Alamo. At the Mauzy site there are two preschool classes, one Elementary and one combined middle school and high school class for severely handicapped students. In addition, Meadowlark, a typical preschool and the San Ramon Valley Unified School District's early childhood special education programs are located at the site. Support staff,
such as speech therapists, nurses, psychologists, behavior specialists,
occupational therapists, augmentative communication specialists, and
teachers of vision and hearing impaired students are also part of the
program team. In addition, the California Children's Services has a
medical therapy unit at the Mauzy site. Parents are an integral part of our team and provide insight into their child's development and needs. The Mauzy Foundation is an active parent organization that provides funding for classroom equipment and materials that give additional support to all of the special needs students served in the Central County Regional Programs. Visually Impaired Resource Center (VIRC) The CCCOE Visually Impaired Program, located at Mauzy School in Alamo, provides resource services to students with visual impairments and provides materials in Braille and large print to a wide variety of students throughout Contra Costa County who are either blind or partially sighted. These students
have created a Web
site, to receive the password to the site, please contact mfaria@cccoe.k12.ca.us
The
facility, formerly known as the Valley School, was expanded and renamed
for Lucille Mauzy in February 1984. Mrs. Mauzy was a prominent member
of the Contra Costa County Board of Education from 1956 to 1979. She was
a strong advocate for special education and worked tirelessly to bring
more special education programs to the county.
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