CID at
DIAMOND PATH
Welcome to the Diamond Path CID Program page. CID stands for Communication Interaction Disorder. It is an educational program created for students with severe communication disorders, social skill needs and sensory processing needs. The majority of the students in the CID program have autism.
Currently Diamond Path has 4 CID classrooms. These CID classrooms provide center based, small group instruction, with a classroom size of 6 students. The classrooms are designed to provide academic and functional skill instruction as well as providing sensory items for modulating through sensory difficulties when needed.
Each classroom has several program support assistants to help assist with academic instruction, functional skill instruction, mainstreaming activities, etc. The staff to student ratio is 2:1. Throughout each school day, students spend time with a specialist in Music, Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Therapy, and Adapted Physical Education.
As people travel around Diamond Path Elementary it is easy to noticing some of the CID program's equipment. The carts, vests, swings, trampoline, and wagons are all used to provide vestibular and proprioceptive input to our students who need help moderating their sensory processing systems. When students are able to be in control of their bodies, they are more able to learn.