Over 1,400 students with disabilities, preschool through age 21, receive services in all district schools, either in separate programs specially tailored to meet their needs, or in regular classrooms with appropriate assistance. All schools provide identification services to determine a student's eligibility for special education. In addition the Child Find screening service identifies special needs children younger than age five. In compliance with state law, vision and hearing screening services are provided for all students in kindergarten, first ,second, third, fifth, seventh and ninth grade.
Each school site has, at a minimum, a building resource team, consisting of a resource teacher, school psyhcologist, speech/language pathologist, and occupational therapist. Specific programs include: Child find, Early Childhood, SCIL (Self-Contained Individualized Learning), PACE (Profression for Adaptive and Cognitive Education), Transition (community based, 18-21 years of age), services for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, Visually Impaired, and Audiology.
If you have specific questions regarding your child, we recommend that you start with your child's school site staff. Other staff who are available to assist you include the special education coordinators
Melissa Cooper
Director of Special Education
303-347-3472
Janie Youderian
Elementary Special Education Coordinator
Elementary Resource, TAB, SCIL
303-347-3466
Rick Frampton
Secondary Special Education Coordinator
303-347-3430
Nate Thompson
Coordinator, Student Support Services
303-347-3570
Barbara Ritchie
Special Programs Coordinator
Early Childhood, Child Find, Elementary PACE, Transition
303-347-3469