Specially Designed Academics – Functional Academics (SDA-FA)

· A highly structured maximum services special education program serving grades K through 5

· Follows the Extensions of the NC Standard Course of Study K through 5

· Predominant instruction: Aligned Grade-level Content Standards with Alternate Academic Achievement Standards

· Instructional focus: functional academics, social skills, daily living, self-help, life skills and recreation/leisure for success in a community environment

· Likely state assessment: NCEXTEND1

· Various assistive technology needed to access the curriculum

· Focus of Alternate Academic Achievement Standards is functional academic skills.

· Formerly Life Skills T and A