The Ashwaubenon School District offers special education services to qualifying 3 to 5 year olds. Pre-school children with identified disabilities could receive services through the following programs:

• Speech/language impairment
• Significant developmental delay
• Autism
• Other health impaired
• Cognitive disabilities
• Emotional/behavioral disability
• Hearing impairment
• Specific learning disability
• Orthopedically impaired
• Traumatic brain injure
• Visual impairment

If you have a concern about your child's development, start by talking to your child's caregiver, doctor, or teacher. The school district will screen any resident child to determine whether a special education referral is appropriate. This screening is conducted in several ways:

• Child participates in Developmental Play Time
• Child is screened at the local preschool or daycare
• Child is seen individually following a contact and setting an appointment with the necessary school personnel

DEVELOPMENTAL PLAY TIME
Every year the Ashwaubenon School District offers Developmental Play Time. This is a FREE screening opportunity for children ages 3 to 5 who reside within the Ashwaubenon School District. We encourage ALL residents to attend, unless they have already been screened at an Ashwaubenon daycare or preschool. Dates will be announced for the 2009-10 school year after the schedule is set.

The purpose for Developmental Play Time is as follows:

• Assess children's developmental progress.
• Provide parents with awareness of available childcare, community services and medical/health resources.
• Provide parents with awareness of child growth and development issues.

WHAT HAPPENS DURING DEVELOPMENTAL PLAY TIME?
Your child will be screened in a child centered preschool setting. While the screening is being conducted, parents will be provided information on child development and medical/health issues, as well as an awareness of community opportunities and services available for preschool children and parents. When the screening process is completed, an educational professional will share the results with parents and provide developmental recommendations. The entire screening process is completed within approximately one hour.

SCREENING AT LOCAL DAYCARES AND PRESCHOOLS
A team of school professionals visits the daycares and preschools within the Ashwaubenon School District each Spring. If your child attends one of these centers, you will receive a letter from the school district informing you of screening dates and procedures.

INDIVIDUAL SCREENING
If your child is unable to attend the Developmental Play Time or is not enrolled in a local daycare or preschool, you may call Cormier School to request a screening.

SPECIAL EDUCATION EVALUATION
If concerns arise regarding your child's development, you will be contacted to discuss these concerns and decide whether or not a special education referral is necessary. Children who complete special education evaluations, qualify for services, and are determined to need special education are eligible for preschool age services in the school district.

PRESCHOOL AGE SERVICES
Preschool special education services are provided in a variety of ways, depending on the child's age and individual needs as determined by the Individualized Education Plan team. These services could be provided through programming in the following locations:

• Head Start
• 4 year old kindergarten
• Ashwaubenon Preschool and Parent Learning (APPL)
• Community based preschools
• Local daycare
• Speech/language therapy groups
• Self-contained classroom
• Child's home
• Syble Hopp
• Community site

For more information please contact Mary Jo Rod, Speech/Lanugage Pathologist, mrod@ashwaubenon.k12.wi.us 920.448.2875 ext. 7201, or Bob Rupp-Kilgore, School Psychologist, bruppkilgore@ashwaubenon.k12.wi.us 920.492.2905 ext. 1016.