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The Rappahannock School Board last week approved a special education support services plan which calls for two new positions: one instructional aide for multihandicapped students atjthe high school and a second aide for developmentally delayed preschoolers at the elementary school. /
The $14,700 for their salary — plus $15,626 for instructional materials, two Apple computers and physical and occupational therapy for handicapped students also included in Hie 1987-88 plan - will come from the state, according to Superintendent of Schools Robert Estabrook.
“This money is supplemental,” he said, noting that approval of the plim obligates neither the School Board nor the Board of Supervisors to following through with establishment of the positions next year. However, if the plan isn’t implemented, the money won’t be forthcoming, he pointed out. “And without this plan, we would still have to provide the services it calls for but without help from the state in paying for them,” Mr. Estabrook said.
Currently, 12 pre-schoolers receive services through the combination home-based/school-based program provided by early childhood development specialist Patty Hoettinger. Pam Rowe, Rappahannock’s special education supervisor, noted that at least seven of those children will continue in the program next year.
For the school-based portion of the program, state regulations call for an aide, Ms. Rowe noted. ’These children are really not labeled as special education children. They’re developmental^ delayed, and hopefully, with this early intervention, they’ll be able to go into a regular kindergarten,” she said.
Mrs. Hoettinger spends five half days a week with the 12 youngsters, the limit which can be handled by a single teacher in a home-based program, Ms. Rowe said. “She does most of the developmental thingB at home . . . working one-on-one with the parents” and then brings the children together at school for socialization. “Most of these children receive speech and language services as well,” noted the special education supervisor.
Currently, the school system is required to identify, evaluate and place in an appropriate educational program all children, ages 2-21, who a*3-?i^<*Ped ^ ‘‘IW1 education 'attti' related 'services.. That mandate will be broadened in 1990 to include children from birth through
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