Programs

Staff
Dr. Kristy LaPorte		Director of Special Services
Melissa Haberern		Special Education Supervisor
Megan Davis		ChildFind Coordinator/Preschool Teacher Coordinator
Kelly Hany		Nursing Supervisor
Lynn Seypura		Nursing Supervisor
Tara Kelly		English Language Learner Coordinator/Teacher
Christin Buxton		Special Services Secretary
Catherine Tamsin		Special Services Secretary

Welcome to Ellington Public Schools Special Services Website!

Ellington Public Schools provide a Free, Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) for each preschool and school-aged child requiring special education and related services. The district provides each child identified with special needs specific special education and related services to ensure individualized instruction. Services are based on the individual child's needs as determined in an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Ellington Public Schools have established procedures for developing, implementing, reviewing, maintaining, and evaluating IEP's for each child requiring special education and related services. The IEP is based on the diagnostic findings and the educational progress of the child. Changes in a child's IEP can only occur through recommendations made at a PPT meeting or through an amendment based upon the current IEP and information relating to the child's current educational performance.

Programs & Services

Ellington Continuing Life Independence Post-Secondary Education (ECLIPSE)

Notification

Ellington notifies parents and eligible students within five school days after the date of a referral to special education.

A full explanation of all procedural safeguards available to the parent or eligible student is sent with the referral notice. The notice must be in writing in a language understandable to the general public and in the dominant language or other mode of communication used by the parents, unless doing so is clearly not feasible. If the dominant language (or other mode of communication) of the parent is not written, the District shall ensure first, that the notice is translated orally or by other means in the dominant language or other mode of communication of the parents, and second, that the information is clearly presented and understood by the parents. There shall be written evidence that these two steps have been taken.

Programs

Programs & Services

Ellington Continuing Life Independence Post-Secondary Education (ECLIPSE)

The Ellington Public Schools Expulsion Program (TEPSEP)

Multiple Abilities Program (MAP)

Program for Alternative Learning (PAL)

Program for Alternative Learning Plus (PAL+)

Applied Behavior Analysis Programs (ABA)

Student Resource Intervention (SRI)

Students Achieving for Excellence (SAFE)

Individualized Programming for School Avoidance Students