Under Construction
Please check back for an all new website soon!!

Related Services

Related services are provided to eligible students throughout the cooperative in the areas of speech-language pathology, occupational and physical therapy, social work, vision, and hearing. Services are provided to district programs in the areas of vision, hearing, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. A continuum of services from monitoring and consultation, to direct intervention are provided, based on students’ needs as determined by the certified service provider in conjunction with the IEP team.

Speech-Language
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Social Work
Vision
Hearing

Speech-Language Pathology Services

Staff:
Melissa R. Jackson, MA. CCC-SLP, Department Chair
Mary G. Skaar, MA, CCC-SLP
Andrea Ellis-Bonk, MS. CCC-SLP


Eight students from neighboring school districts placed in a low incidence program for students with hearing impairments also received speech and language services, for a total of 96 students to conclude the 2002-2003 school year.

Back to Top

 

Occupational Therapy Services

Staff:
Lynn Chassee, Supervisor OTR/L

Jeff Baker, OTR/L
Maria Bettler, OTR/L
Linda Bily, COTA/L
Beth Bosak, OTR/L
Nancy Daly, OTR/L
Jody Harrington, OTR/L
Rona Henne, OTR/L
Cecelia Hoffman OTR/L
Marc Hoffman, OTR/L
Lisa Jenz-Siblik. OTR/L
Carrie Kranz, OTR/L
Sally Kannaka, OTR/L
Heather Mueller, OTR/L
Susan Royce, OTR/L

Back to Top

Physical Therapy Services

Staff:
Pat Edwards, Supervisor PT

Pat Del Giudice, PTA
Shona Fowler, PT
Susan Hendricksen, PTA
Pinky Jain, PT
Phyllis Markovic. PT, MHS


Back to Top

Social Work Services

Staff:
Mary Knishka, Supervisor
Margie Cleveland
Mary Ann Domaracki
Reesa Kizor
Linda Palmisano
Nichole Sharkey

Mid-Valley Special Education Cooperative provided social work services to twenty programs throughout the Mid Valley Special Education Cooperative. Service was delivered using direct, consultation, group and individual modalities. Our social workers provided support to teachers and worked collaboratively in developing new strategies for social skill development.

A new intervention utilized this year was having students write and do role-playing involving social problems and solutions. They also videotaped the role play sessions. Several classes developed units on life skills that assisted the students with fund raising for positive reinforcement projects. Social Workers also focused on developing and implementing functional analysis and behavior intervention plans with systematic procedures being implemented across programs.
Back to Top

Vision Services

Staff:
Donna O’Hagan
Judith Ullrich

The itinerant teachers for the visually impaired serve eligible students from Mid Valley’s instructional programs and district programs.
Back to Top

 

Hearing Impaired Services

Staff:
Angie Gregory
Sharon Jenkins
Carolyn Viereckl

**Note: Click here to view information about the Mid-Valley Hearing Impaired pre-school program.
Back to Top