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i Cape Cod Regional range from monitoring of progress to more substantially Vocational Enrollments separate programs for the more substantially disabled 9-12 child. October 1, 1984 48 Special needs programs within the Middle School are as October 1, 1985 40 follows: one grade K-4 Resource Room, one grade 5-8 October 1, 1986 43 Resource Room, one Intensive Language Program, one October 1, 1987 45 Early Childhood Language Program and one Intensive Be- havioral Needs Program. The latter three programs accept Clearly, one short term goal of our school system is to tuitioned students from other school districts. All five pro- Ire, maintain quality educational programs within a facility that grams function with the support of a Speech Pathologist, i4 is extremely overcrowded. In order to accommodate addi- School Adjustment Counselor,a part-time School Psychol- tional classroom space,the library will be partitioned next °gist, and apart-time Adaptive Physical Education Profes- year. At the same time, it is important that we look into sional.Additional ancillary services through the Cape Cod the future. Construction of our new elementary school will Collaborative include Occupational and Physical Therapy. soon begin. The anticipated opening date is September, The Psychologist position is combined with the Coor- 1989. If student enrollments continue to increase at the dinator's position equalling a full time position. same rate, it is highly probable that the new elementary The Cape Cod Collaborative for Special Needs continues school will open at full capacity. to serve the Mashpee Public Schools with a continued cur- Recent state curriculum assessment testing as well as rent caseload of three Mashpee students. In addition, testing of students mastery of basic skills along with Stan- Mashpee continues to collaborate with surrounding public dardized achievement testing, indicate that our students, school districts and with Early Intervention in providing at all levels K-8, are continuing to score at or above state appropriate educational programming for Mashpee norms. The success of our students, I believe, is a direct students.The coordinator of Special Education also works result of the commitment of the faculty and parents of our in cooperation with Falmouth High School and Cape Cod school system. Tech personnel in providing programming for high school aged youngsters with Special Educational Needs. In all, the many changes this year we have taken in stride, thanks mainly to the cooperation and understand- the first five months of the 87-88 school year. Of these ing of students and faculty who worked together for the referrals, five pre-schoolers were referred for evaluation. good of our school. The adjustments have been well made One hundred and four Kindergarten children were screened by all of the us,thanks again to the cooperation of all par- resulting in seven referrals for further evaluation. Twenty ties. The progress has been in all aspects of school life as three new students enrolled in Mashpee with special ser- we uniformly continue to grow, to expand and to work vice needs. Eight students were referred by the classroom toward our ultimate goal of the finest possible education reachers through the Educational Service Team ES for every student in our school system in relation to the g ( pre- for referral process. The EST, through its screening, review individual childs'needs and abilities. I sincerely feel that and advisor our school system is as fine an institution of learning as Y Process continues to offer invaluable support to the classroom teacher as it meets its mandate to refer You will find anywhere. to special needs evaluation only those students who have exhausted all regular education options. In addition, one Respectfully submitted, hundred-two student's educational plans were reviewed and Lincoln A. DeMoura, Ed.D. updated in the first five months of the 87-88 school year, Superintendent of Schools including ten full re-evaluations. Inservice needs have been met for faculty and staff on i Report of the a regular basis. A review of legal issues and procedures regarding the Chapter 766 Law was provided staff. This `c Coordinator of included new regulation changes and regular classroom SQ �r staff responsibilities. The revised Special Education pecial Education Manual for staff was also reviewed in detail. Inservice pro- grams included behavioral management and mainstream- To the Superintendent of Schools, the School Committee mainstream- ing issues and computers and special needs students. A and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: Special Education Parent Advisory Council(SEPAL)ses- sion was also devoted to the changes in regulations.A revis- As Coordinator of Special Education for the Mashpee ed Parent Special Education Manual is available to parents Public School, I am pleased to submit my annual report. this year through the efforts of the Council. Bylaws have A total of 132 students from ages three through twenty- also been developed. The Council is presently assessing one are currently being serviced within our system. This needs and working toward developing a series of training represents 19% of the school population. Their programs workshops for parents. - 103 - . „s'