Mrs. Jill Sillery
Speech/Language Pathologist

Who receives speech/language services?

• Children with a current IEP (Individualized Education Plan) who have been tested and determined eligible for speech/language
• New students who had speech at their previous school (including Head Start) will automatically be enrolled here
• Make sure the office knows your child had speech so the appropriate paperwork can be done.

What types of services are provided?

• Speech/language services are a combination of pullout and classroom-based, small group or individual
• The services depend on the needs of the student
• RTI (Response to Intervention)
• This trend involves applying interventions to students in real-time before waiting for them to fail
• More students may receive speech interventions who do not have IEPs. These will likely be short-term (3-6 weeks) and classroom-based

Speech/language screenings

• Conducted annually for children in kindergarten
• Conducted annually for students new to the corporation
• Conducted as needed at teacher or parent request

Process for new enrollment in speech/language

• Screening
• Permission obtained to test
• Testing done (usually a battery of 2-3 assessments)
• Meeting with parent, administrator, teacher, and therapist
• Enrollment (if criteria met)

Hearing Screening - By law, the following students are screened:

• Kindergarten
• 1st grade
• 4th grade
• 7th grade
• 10th grade
• New students
• Students enrolled in speech/language services
• Students being referred for special education testing

Students who fail the 1st screening

• Rescreening occurs within 2-4 weeks
• If the student fails again, a referral is made to an ENT (ears, nose, throat doctor) and an audiologist
• An ENT can determine if the problem is medical in nature, prescribe medicine
• An audiologist can test the hearing more thoroughly, diagnose amount of loss

Parents have the right to:

• Refuse a hearing screening
• Request a hearing screening

 

Mrs. Karen Webster
Speech/Language Aide