Special Education
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Related Services and Support Services
The Southeast Delco School District provides, without cost to parents, screenings, evaluations,appropriate programs and services to all students thought to be exceptional and in need of specially designed instruction. Please contact the building psychologists via email if you should have any questions or concerns about this process.
District Psychologists:
Email Mrs. Meghan Lizotte- Darby Township/ Kindergarten Center
Email Ms. Barbara Young- Sharon Hill School/Kindergarten Center
Inclusion
Southeast Delco School District employs an inclusion model for students who require special education services. Education is both a human right in itself and an indispensable mean of a better future. Inclusion provides children with special educational needs and disabilities the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Inclusion of students who require special education services is accomplished through team planning and the effective use of supplementary aids and services. Implementing the use of supplementary aids and services in the general education classroom is a primary component of the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) as stated in the Inpiduals with Disabilities Act (IDEA).
LRE means that, to the maximum extent appropriate, school districts must educate students with disabilities in the regular classroom with appropriate aids and supports, referred to as "supplementary aids and services, " along with their non-disabled peers in the school they would attend if not disabled, unless a student's IEP requires some other arrangement. This requires and inpidualized inquiry into the unique educational needs of each disabled student in determining the possible range of aids and supports that are needed to facilitate the student's placement in the regular educational environment before a more restrictive placement is considered.
In implementing IDEA's LRE provisions, the regular classroom in the school the student would attend if not disabled is the first placement option considered for each disabled student before a more restrictive placement is considered.
If the IEP of a student with a disability can be implemented satisfactorily with the provision of supplementary aids and services in the regular classroom in the school the student would attend if not disabled, that placement is the LRE placement for that student. However, if the student's IEP cannot be implemented satisfactorily in that environment, even with the provision of supplementary aids and services, the regular classroom in the school the student would attend if not disabled is not the LRE placement for that student.
According to IDEA, Supplementary Aids and Services means, aids, services and other supports that are provided in regular education classes or other education-related settings to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.
Supplementary Aids and Services can include changes in:
Environment
Instructional Strategies
Social or Behavioral Support
Staff Support
Assessment
Extended School Year (ESY)
Southeast Delco School District provides extended school year services for students who require special education services. The IEP team determines the need for ESY in early spring.
IEP teams should consider the following when making ESY decisions:
Re-coupment in the fall
Child's rate of progress
Child's behavioral or physical problems
Availability of alternative resources
Areas of the child's curriculum that need continuous attention
Child's vocational needs
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