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Overview of Special Education Service
The Shiawassee Regional Education Service District (SRESD) supports the instruction of students in eight local school districts of Shiawassee County, Michigan, which is located geographically between the cities of Lansing and Flint. The school districts served by the SRESD are Byron, Corunna, Durand, Laingsburg, Morrice, New Lothrop, Owosso, and Perry. In addition, we serve five non-public schools, adult service agencies, and as needed, school districts in neighboring counties. Through cooperative service, 1,544 students were provided with special education services in the 1996-1997 school year. Hundreds more were served through consultative, casework, and diagnostic services.
Unified Systems - Cooperation and collaboration are the hallmark of the Shiawassee (RESD) delivery system. Through a common vision and pooled resources, the RESD, local education agencies (LEAs), Michigan Department of Education (MDE), and non-public schools provide a united system of student and family support. We are pursuing a seamless transition between: general education and special education programs; school districts; public and non-public constituents through interagency partnerships.
Focused Efforts - To maximize effectiveness and cost containment, the RESD and constituents have focused their efforts. The LEAs focus on providing basic classroom and instructional support for their students. The RESD provides administrative, diagnostic, consultative, and therapeutic services in the LEAs. It also supplements local programs with inter-district placements, county-wide programs for more challenging students, and professional development services.
Cooperative Planning - Effective and efficient service delivery requires participative planning at all levels. The Special Education Service Delivery System is cooperatively developed by the MDE, RESD, LEAs, and Parent Advisory Committee and delineated in the RESD Special Education Plan.
Individualized planning to meet the unique special education needs of students is provided through the Individualized Educational Planning Committee (IEPC) process. Servicing the educational needs of infants and toddlers cannot be separated from those of the family. The Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) creates a common service plan for the family and integrates all services the family requires.
Community Integration - To prepare students for adult roles, the RESD integrates students into the community through community-based instruction, work training, and work study placements. The RESD provides leadership integrating school efforts with those of the community through such interagency efforts as: Health and Human Service Council, Early On Coordinating Council, Safe Children-Strong Families, Michigan Family Preservation Initiative, and Transition Initiatives.
Accountability - Customer confidence and continuous renewal requires feedback and accountability. The RESD promotes this through the following: annual monitoring of legal compliance; affording parent access to procedural due process; IEP and IFSP reviews; program evaluation; and customer surveys. We are seeking to integrate these separate efforts into a continuous feedback loop.
Programs and Services
It is the philosophy of the RESD and its constituent districts to serve each student in the least restrictive environment. This implies that the first level of intervention and support will be in a normalized setting and without a disability label. Thus, the cascade of student support services the RESD provides begins with student and teacher consultation and intervention prior to referral. If referral is necessary and disability determined, it is believed that all children should have the opportunity to be educated together, regardless of a handicapping condition, in the school he or she would attend if not handicapped unless otherwise determined by the IEPC process.
The IEPC is provided a full continuum of placement options through cooperative planning between the RESD and constituents.
Programs and services operated by the RESD include:
- General Education/Special Education Collaboration (Intervention Program & Staffing Meetings)
- Special Education Support Services
- Special Education Instructional Programs
- Vocational Preparation and Transition Services
- Administration Services
- Contracted Services
- Transportation Services
- Intervention Program - A school social worker and academic consultant team to provide consultation and intervention to students at-risk of school failure and referral to special education. Services are provided up to 120 days with a focus on classroom intervention and home school liaison.
- Staffing - Regular staffing meetings are held in each building with regular and special education specialists available to teachers for consultation and problem-solving.
Due to the continuing revision of educational procedure and law, some of the information presented within these pages may have become out of date. It is best to check with your local school district or ESD for current information on educational rights and procedures. Because of the school calendar, this page is monitored on an irregular basis for currency. Therefore, some of the web links to resources may be out of date.
Information contained on these pages is intended to increase the understanding of special education services, programs, and resources. It does not necessarily recommend or endorse specific products, programs, or courses of action. Therefore, the Shiawassee Regional Education Service District assumes no liability for the misappropriate use of its contents.
Shiawassee Regional Education Service District
1025 N. Shiawassee Street • Corunna, MI 48817
Phone: (989) 743-3471 • FAX (989) 743-6477
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