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Kevin McCormick ESE Director

On behalf of the Department of Exceptional Student Education (ESE), I would like
to thank staff, parents and our community for the hard work and determination in
keeping the focus on doing what’s best for our students. The ESE staff is dedicated
to supporting schools, servicing students, and providing guidance and professional
development to parents. We are proud to share that our graduation rates for students
with disabilities are continuing to make marked improvement. The percentage of
students with disabilities continues to increase at a greater rate annually than students
without disabilities. We are all working towards achieving our common goal of raising student achievement
for all students. Our mission is to provide and support specialized instruction and related services leading
to successful life outcomes. We are committed to providing continuous support and quality service to our
students, schools, parents, and community stakeholders.

Multisensory Early Language Development (MELD)
is coming in 2019-20

Multisensory Early Language Development (MELD) is a program designed
to address the needs of pre-K children who are nonverbal or who have
complex communication challenges. The MELD program has three major
components:

1. Implementation of language and literacy lesson plans that supports core language skills and engages
students and staff in literacy and language activities.
2. Development and use of
core vocabulary boards (30-
90 core vocabulary words)
to support acquisition
of expressive language
using various modes of
communication.
3. Ongoing professional
development and support is
provided.

For more information
contact Siobhan McManus
at (561)-434-8181.

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