Pre-School Services

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. You can then contact Cormier School at 920.448.2870 and request an Ages and Stages-3 screening questionaire.  In this screener, parents try various activities with their child, checking the box that best describes what the child can do.  School staff then records the scores and consults with families regarding the results.

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.  This Developmental Play Time screening will take place on Thursday, January 17, 2013, at 4:30 and 6:00 p.m.  Developmental Play Time screening is held at Cormier School.

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.

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 Jodie Madison, Speech/Lanugage Pathologist, jmadison@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.

Last Updated: 10/23/12