What is lunch program? 

Langan School provides a quality dining experience for our students. Our lunch time is an instructional lunch period where students work on goals to improve skills. Our cafeteria offers hot meal and sandwich choices daily. Students who use our cafeteria services to order their lunch using their words, yes/no response or communication systems. We encourage lunch to be social and a time to learn appropriate dining skills. A big emphasis of our dining program includes working to increase our students’ independence. Over 95% of our dependent students participate in some form of self dining skills. Other students are able to dine independently enough to be supervised in small groups with their classmates. Many students obtain their own lunches from the cafeteria line, carry their trays to the table and put their dishes in the dishwasher. Some students also use adapted equipment to help support self dining. We promote using our cafeteria daily. Students work on transitioning, some walking, propelling their wheelchairs, or utilizing MOVE equipment to get to the cafeteria. Others may work on using their communication devices to say hello to friends or staff they see in the hallways. Allowing our students to have opportunities outside of the classroom setting is important to our program. It can help students’ adjustments when they are dining at places in the community. Overall, we provide a quality educational and social environment for Langan students at lunchtime.