qualifications-NorthCentralSpecialEducationCooperative.doc

MISSION STATEMENT Special Education Programs South Dakota Department of Education Special Education Programs, located in the South Dakota Department of Education advocates for the availability of the full range of personnel, programming, and placement options, including early intervention and transition services, required to assure that all individuals with disabilities are able to achieve maximum independence upon exiting from school. In accomplishing this mission, Special Education Programs: 1. Provides the leadership and technical support essential for school districts, other public agencies, and families to meet the individualized needs of children and youth with disabilities eligible for early intervention programming, special education, or special education and related services; 2. Facilitates and, where federal and/or state policy mandates, oversees collaboration among all agencies and individuals involved in the provision of early intervention programming and special education or special education and related services; 3. Ensures statewide compliance with all state and federal mandates governing the provision of early intervention programming, special education or special education and related services; and Administers the distribution of state and federal funds appropriated to assure the provision of early intervention programming, special education, or special education and related services for all eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. TASK FORCE MEMBERS Autism Joyce Anderson School Psychologist Watertown School District Watertown, SD Gail Eichstadt Parent Pierre, SD Ruth Fodness School Psychologist Sioux Falls, SD Brittany Schmidt Director Autism Spectrum Disorder Program Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota Sioux Falls, SD Linda Turner Part B Specialist Department of Education Pierre, SD Developmental Delay, Cognitive Disability Mary Borgman School Psychologist Education Specialist Northeast E