Pupil Services

Director of Pupil Services – Rebecca Gaschel-Clark
Executive Secretary to the Director – Jody Pegorari
 
Supervisor of Special Ed – Ashley Holmes
Administrative Assistant to the Supervisor – Nadine Andrews

Under federal and state statutes, children requiring special education are those children who have one or more of the following disabilities which adversely affect their educational performance and who require specially designed instruction: autistic, deaf-blind, hearing impaired, learning disabled, intellectually disabled, multi-handicapped, orthopedically impaired, other health impaired, emotionally disturbed, speech/language impaired, visually impaired/blind, traumatic brain injury, developmentally delayed (infants and preschool age). Special education is available to preschool children who have attained the age of three years and whose degree and type of disability, based on the evaluation by the Planning and Placement Team, is such that the absence of special education will impair the child’s educational development to the extent that it is unlikely that the child will be able to make satisfactory educational progress when the child attains school age.

The term special education means specially designed instruction, special classes, programs and services, at no cost to parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability.  For more information, please explore the document: CTSDE: A Parent’s Guide to Special Education in Connecticut.  This guide also includes a glossary of important and relevant terms.

We invite you to learn more about our schools by visiting their websites and then, if you are interested, contacting them directly to schedule an appointment:

Cornwall Consolidated School
Kent Center School
Lee H. Kellogg School
North Canaan Elementary School
Salisbury Central School
Sharon Center School
Housatonic Valley Regional High School