DAY CENTRES, INCLUSIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL, CURATIVE EDUCATION DAY CENTRE, EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, VOCATIONAL SCHOOL, SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE

Instruction & Education

Instruction & Education

Luise-Kiesselbach-Förderschule
(Educational School for Children with Special Needs)

Focus on physical development and motor skills

Nursery-school domain, Pre-School Facility (from age 4 until entering school)

Targeted preparation for a successful school entrance through initiation of school-relevant skills, such as
  • Independence and social learning
  • Concentration and endurance
  • Speech and augmentative and alternative communication

Primary School (Grades 1-4)

  • Diagnosis for special-needs class possible (classes/grades 1, 1A, and 2)
  • German, mathematics, social studies
  • Music, art, workshop, ethics, religion, and physical education

Middle School (Grades 5-9)

  • Fundamental courses
  • Nutrition and social studies
  • Work placements for orientation
  • Targeted preparation for the transition “School and Career”
  • History, politics, geography
  • Nature and technology
  • English
  • Computer sciences

Vocational School (Grades 10-12)

3 years of full-time schooling to meet the vocational-school requirements, with the learning sections of:

  • Work and profession
  • Leisure
  • Living in society
  • Mobility
  • Personal and social relationships
  • Residential living
  • Sports and movement
  • Religion/ethics

Our school concept

  • Structured daily and weekly schedule: instruction, therapies, and time in the curative education day centre are integrated into a daily and weekly schedule aligned with the needs of the child
  • Space “Islands” consisting of classroom, curative-education room, resting room, and therapy room
  • Interdisciplinary team, consisting of the professional groups in special-needs school, (curative) education, therapy, and other specialists, collaborate within the Island team
  • Integrative teaching in multi-grade and multi-curriculum classes
  • Various reference curricula: master curriculum for the focus of development learning
  • Curriculum for the focus of mental development
  • Differentiated instruction in small groups with similar performance
  • Developmental-diagnostic instruction based on individual development plans
  • Development of senses, motor skills, and education for children and youths with complex impairments
  • Therapy offerings: occupational, speech, and physiotherapy
  • Sports and swimming in collaboration with physiotherapy
  • Stay in our school boarding house upon request
  • Comprehensive holiday care provided by the curative education day centre (closed for only 3 weeks per year)
  • Potential transition to the inclusive Luise Kiesselbach Grundschule (primary school)
  • Option for a diploma in the developmental focus area of learning
  • Partnership with the Luise Kiesselbach Förderberufsschule (vocational school for youths with special needs); extended education path up to secondary-school diploma (Mittelschule)
  • Pupil transport by taxi service
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FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE LUISE KIESSELBACH SCHOOLS

Your contacts

Support center for physical and motor development and vocational school for special educational support

Wolfgang Meierhofer

Headmaster of the Luise Kiesselbach Schools

Reinhilde Hermann

Deputy/Enrolment

Margit Höglinger

Administrative office of the of the Luise Kiesselbach Schools

Every child receives the instruction they need.

“Our classes at the Luise Kiesselbach School are taught in a community, are based on the pupils’ life environment and oriented towards the acquisition of capabilities. We strive to design our instruction in a way that satisfies the needs of each and every one of our pupils.”

Kai Habenreich
Teacher at the Luise-Kiesselbach-Förderschule

Every child receives the instruction they need.

“Our classes at the Luise Kiesselbach School are taught in a community, are based on the pupils’ life environment and oriented towards the acquisition of capabilities. We strive to design our instruction in a way that satisfies the needs of each and every one of our pupils.”

Kai Habenreich
Teacher at the Luise-Kiesselbach-Förderschule