Northeast Support Team

Personalized Learning Services

Special Education Services

Our Special Education team provides individualized support for students with unique learning needs. Through specialized instruction, accommodations, and collaboration with families, we help students access the curriculum and build essential skills. The Significant Support Needs (SSN) program offers highly individualized teaching and care for students who benefit from intensive supports.

Mental Health

The mental health team, which consist of the School Counselor and School Psychologist, supports students’ social-emotional well-being. Our school counselor helps students build skills like problem-solving, emotional regulation, and positive peer relationships, while our school psychologist provides assessments, interventions, and guidance for more complex needs. The mental health team provides classroom lessons to each class once per month. Themes for third grade include emotional regulation and coping skills; themes for fourth grade include self-awareness, self-esteem and diversity.; themes for fifth grade include interpersonal relationships, collaborative skills, and an introduction to careers. Together, they ensure students feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.

Speech-Language Services

The primary goal of speech-language therapy in an elementary school is to support students in developing effective communication skills that are essential for academic success, social interaction, and overall personal development. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work with students who have difficulties in areas such as speech sound production, language comprehension and expression, fluency (e.g., stuttering), voice, and social communication.

Specific goals areas may include:

• Improving speech clarity so students can be easily understood by peers and adults.

• Enhancing understanding and use of language for following directions, answering questions, and participating in classroom discussions.

• Building vocabulary and grammar skills to support reading, writing, and academic achievement.

• Strengthening social communication abilities, including turn-taking, staying on topic, and interpreting nonverbal cues.

• Developing fluency and voice skills to promote confident and effective verbal communication.

• Supporting literacy development by targeting skills that connect language and reading, such as phonological awareness and narrative abilities.
  
  

Speech-language therapy in schools is individualized, evidence-based, and aligned with each student’s educational needs, helping them participate fully in the classroom and reach their learning potential.

English Language Development 

Our ML program supports students whose first language is not English. We focus on building listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills so students can succeed both academically and socially. We also celebrate and honor the rich cultural and language diversity that students bring to our school community.

Academic Intervention

Intervention services provide extra support for students who may need a boost in reading, writing, or math. Our interventionist works with small groups to give targeted instruction that helps students catch up, fill in gaps, and grow in confidence as learners.

Gifted & Talented 

Our Gifted and Talented (GT) program challenges and inspires students who demonstrate advanced learning abilities. Through enrichment opportunities, critical thinking challenges, and creative problem-solving, we help gifted students stretch their learning and explore their passions in meaningful ways.

Occupational Therapy

School-based occupational therapy (OT) is a related service to special education when the unique skills of an OT are needed to support a child’s access to specialized instruction. An OT is not a primary service provider and cannot stand alone on an IEP. School-based Occupational Therapy services are delivered by highly trained, licensed Occupational Therapists who utilize purposeful, goal-directed activities and task analysis to enable a child with a disability to benefit from their Individualized Education Program (IEP). OT services are not intended to satisfy the medical needs of a student since they must be educationally relevant and therefore may not meet the total therapy needs of a student. School-based services cannot replace any necessary medically based services that address non-school-based motor skills and/or tasks. In a school setting, the OT may be involved in supporting any or all of the following areas that interfere with a child’s educational performance:

• School related self help skills identified as a part of their specialized instruction on their IEP

• Fine, gross and visual motor skills

• Education in sensory processing accommodations.

• School relevant visual processing/visual perceptual skills (copying from the board etc.)

• Positioning, functional mobility and transfers

• Motor components of functional communication (hand/arm function to hit a switch etc.)

• Adaptive devices and equipment and modifications of tasks

Home Base Instruction

Known as Talon's Eyrie, we provide a safe space for students to learn strategies to regulate their body through movement or connecting with an adult.  There are 3 areas in the room to support self regulation.  These areas include: Heavy Work, Sensory Zone, and Calm Mind and Body. There are many tools available in Talon’s Eyrie to help students self regulate.  Students are taught skills in order to generalize and implement them in their classroom and environment.  Students utilize the Zones of Regulation in order to identify their level of awareness of their bodies and emotions.  The ultimate goal is for students to become self aware of their needs in order to maintain focus and attention during instructional times.