School Counseling
The School Counseling staff at the Strafford School is an essential component to successful communication at Lurgio. School counselors are available to all students and parents to discuss academic, social, and emotional situations or concerns that may impact a student's school life. Students or parents may request individual consultations or group meetings as needs arise.
Health - School Nurse
"School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self management, self advocacy, and learning."
Special Education
Disposal of Special Education Records:
Strafford School will be disposing of Special Education records at the beginning of each new calendar year in compliance with ED 1119.01. Special Education records of past students 25-60 years of age will be disposed of with the exception of their last Individual Educational Plan (IEP) which remains on file until age 60.
Speech/Language Pathologist
Helping children to:
Speak clearly and fluently
Listen effectively and understand classroom instructions, lessons, and text
Formulate sentences as they are speaking, using age appropriate grammar
Develop a strong vocabulary and learn curriculum words and language based concepts across all subject areas
Use language socially to converse and interact well with others
Develop phonemic (sound) awareness needed for reading and spelling
Be able to share what they know, describe events and retell stories, organizing and sequencing their ideas.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about your child’s speech/language development at rwiggin@strafford.k12.nh.us.
Links:
American Speech/language Hearing website: http://asha.org/public/
Common questions and links to articles: http://www.speechville.com/
Speech/language and hearing articles: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/c522/
Information on fluency disorders: http://www.stutteringhelp.org/
Phonological awareness activities for home: http://www.medfield.net/mem/attachments/article/50/phonological_awareness.pdf
Occupational Therapy
What is occupational therapy?
Occupational therapy is a health profession in which therapists and therapy assistants help individuals to do and engage in the specific activities that make up daily life. For children and youth in schools, occupational therapy works to ensure that a student can participate in the full breadth of school activities—from paying attention in class; concentrating on the task at hand; holding a pencil, musical instrument, or book in the easiest way; or just behaving appropriately in class.