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Early Childhood Program of Plainville

The Preschool team provides the following interdisciplinary services:

• Transition services for students leaving B-3 and entering preschool
• Monthly Developmental Screenings for children turning three years old
• Evaluations and services in the areas of speech and language, social/behavioral, gross/fine motor, adaptive and cognitive skills
• Team consultation to families regarding early childhood development and parenting issues
• Consultation with area preschool/daycare service providers
• Transition services to students leaving special education preschool and entering Kindergarten
• Individualized services in the preschool classroom, therapy room, home, or community preschool
• Parent services that include home visits, school meetings, parent education seminars, and family activity nights

Developmental Resource

The Developmental Resource program is offered to elementary and middle school students needing intensive special education services.  Students receive a range of services that might include:

• Individualized or small group special education instruction
• Related services such as speech and language and occupational/physical therapy
• Individualized behavioral programming as needed
• Special education instructional services within the mainstream classroom
• Paraprofessional support to maximize student learning and socialization in the mainstream setting
• Consultation with parents, staff and community resources
• Services of consulting psychologist as needed

Resource Teachers

Resource Teachers are integral members of the educational team who provide a wide range of early intervention and special education services.  These services may be provided directly in the resource room or in the classroom depending upon the needs of the student.  Responsibilities include:

• Performing as member of the Planning and Placement Team and Pre-referral Teams

• Conducting informal screenings

• Conducting formal and informal diagnostic assessments

• Planning, implementing, and monitoring specially designed instruction to achieve selected goals and objectives for individual students

• Developing alternative educational materials and tests including technology enhanced instruction and testing

• Maintaining documentation and files

• Acting as Case Manager and point of contact for special education students

• Consulting with parents, staff, and community resources

• Team teaching with regular education staff in the classroom, providing whole class, small group, and individualized instruction

• Supervising instructional programs provided by tutors and aides

• Participating as a member of various school and district committees

School Social Work Services

As a member of the school’s interdisciplinary team, the school social worker works collaboratively to strengthen the child’s adjustment to the educational process.  Social worker district-wide functions include:

• Helping students to achieve maximum benefit from their educational opportunities through individual and group counseling interventions
• Assisting parents to participate effectively in their children’s education by enhancing parents’ understanding of how to support their
  children’s learning experiences
• Empowering children and their families to gain access to and effectively use community resources
• Providing school-based teams with consultation services to promote understanding of factors that affect the student’s abilities to grow positively
• Advocating for children and their families within the community to minimize environmental factors which inhibit learning by referring to appropriate service agencies

School Nurse Services

School health services are provided by school nurses and, in an emergency, by our district medical advisor.

School nurse functions include:

• Overseeing all students with special health needs
• Providing minor medical treatment for all students
• Conduction yearly weight, vision, hearing screenings and scoliosis screenings (grades 5-9)
• Referring parents to appropriate community based health resources
• Participating in the student study team and PPT process
• Monitoring all state and federally mandated health services for public school students

Occupational and Physical Therapy Services

The occupational and physical therapists provide services to children whose physical disabilities preclude optimal functioning within the school setting.

Direct services include:

• Screening, evaluation and treatment planning and implementation
• Providing adaptive equipment and home programs as needed

Indirect services include:

• Collaborating and consulting with physical education programs, classroom teachers, school administration and outside agencies
• Participating in Planning and Placement Teams
• Providing formal and informal in service presentations to school personnel and parents

Speech and Language Services

Speech-language pathologists provide assessment, analysis, and remediation that lead to improvement or correction of speech and/or language difficulties which interfere with a child’s ability to succeed in an educational setting.  Services also include:

• Collaborating and coordinating with parents, teachers, and other school personnel
• Participating in the building Planning and Placement Team meeting

Speech-language pathologists provide early intervention strategies such as:

• Observing and screening student’s speech, receptive and expressive language skills
• Suggesting modification strategies for the regular education classroom

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School Psychologist Services

School Psychologists focus on social, emotional and cognitive factors that impact students’ educational achievement.  The role of the school psychologist includes:

• Assisting educators to understand and develop programs and curricula that respond to individual differences and the varied ways in which children learn

• Teaching students and staff about peaceful ways to resolve conflicts, strategies for managing and coping with crisis, effective communication skills, and positive discipline methods

• Identifying needs and developing programs that prevent problems before they occur

• Working with policy makers, teachers, administrators, social workers, counselors, parents and nurses to ensure that the educational needs of the students are met

• Developing and encouraging home-school relationships which make families a part of the educational process to help ensure students’ success

• Developing and implementing assessments and interventions that are appropriate and nondiscriminatory.  Assessments include standardized measurements, classroom observations and intake interviews

• Providing individual and group counseling services as recommended by the Planning and Placement team

• Providing parent education workshops

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DISTRICT PROGRAMS

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