Special Services

Overview:

The Special Services Department educates students who are identified through a special education review process as eligible for special education (specialized instruction) and who have Individualized Education Plans. An Evaluation and Planning Team determines a student’s eligibility for an IEP according to Vermont State Department of Education Special Education rules. Special services are provided for students who qualify under one or more of the following categories of disabilities:

Learning impairment                                   
Emotional disturbance
Orthopedic impairment                                   
Specific learning disability
Visual impairment                                   
Autism
Deafness/hard of hearing                                   
Other health impairments
Speech or Language Impairment                 
Multiple disabilities
Traumatic brain injury                                   
Deaf-blindness

The Special Services staff includes Vermont-certified learning specialists, a reading teacher, a speech and language pathologist, paraeducators, and related services providers.  The staff helps students identify learning problems; they provide remediation in the areas of deficiency; they tutor in the content areas; they teach specific basic skills, exam-taking skills, and organizational skills, and they help students develop strategies to manage behavior.

Indirect services may take the form of consulting with classroom teachers, conferencing with parents, developing IEPs, managing a student’s educational program, revising curricula, and coordinating with other professionals involved in the process of special education.  

Special education personnel work with other agency personnel to facilitate the transfer of students to college or other post high-school opportunities. This may include placing a student on a 504 plan which is designed to assist the student throughout life.

The Study Skills course is offered for students who need additional academic support to function successfully in regular education classes.

The ACCESS Program (Accessing Community, Careers, and Education through Successful Self-Determination) is a life-skills, functional academic, community-based, job-training course of study for students who need a highly specialized and individualized high-school program.

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