Early Childhood Special Education

Licensed Early Childhood Special Educators help preschool age children develop important skills through support to families and access to local preschool settings.

Preschool children’s age-appropriate development is supported through:

• Free developmental screenings in a comfortable play-based setting using Ages and Stages questionnaires
• Identifying typical development
• Identifying developmental challenges
• Providing child-centered early childhood special education services that allow a child to ~
  • participate in typical early childhood activities to the best of their abilities
  • reach their full learning potential
  • prepare them for the next learning environment

If your child is under the age of 5 and you are concerned about his/her development, please contact the Orange East Supervisory Union at 802-222-5216 ext. 6114 to set up a screening for your child.

If you have concerns about your child’s development between screenings, please contact our program.

To qualify for Special Education services:

1. A child must show a delay in one of the following developmental areas: speech, language, personal social, adaptive, fine or gross motor skills and/or cognitive skills. Children who demonstrate a delay are eligible for services and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) is developed to meet their needs; and/or
2. Children who have a medical condition diagnosed by a physician that poses a high probability of a developmental delay before entering kindergarten are eligible for services.
3. Children who are identified by Children’s Integrated Services and have at least a 25% delay in one area may potentially be eligible by the time they reach their third birthday are also eligible for services.