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 Student Support Services

Over 1,800 students with disabilities, preschool through age 21, receive services in all district schools, either in separate programs specially tailored to meet their needs, or in regular classrooms with appropriate assistance. All schools provide identification services to determine a student’s eligibility for special education. In addition the Child Find screening service identifies special needs children younger than age five. In compliance with state law, vision and hearing screening services are provided for all students in kindergarten, first, second, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth grade.

Each school site has, at a minimum, a building resource team, consisting of a resource teacher, school psychologist, speech/language pathologist, and occupational therapist. Specific programs include: Child Find, Early Childhood, SCIL (Self-Contained Individualized Learning), PACE (Progression for Adaptive and Cognitive Education), Transition (community based, 18-21 years of age), services for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired, Visually Impaired, and Audiology. 

If you have specific questions regarding your child, we recommend that you start with your child's school site staff.  If additional assistance or information is needed, please contact one of the special education coordinators listed below.
 

Assistant Superintendent of Student Support Services
Lucinda Hundley
 303-347-3472                              
Administrative Assistant
Jill Shoup
 303-347-3471 
Assistant Director, Special Education
Ronald Lee, Psy.D.
 303-347-3518 
Secretary, Assistant Director of Special Education
Kelly Borger
 303-347-3522 
Director, Alternative Education
Karen Goodwin
 303-347-3394 
Secretary, Director of Alternative Education
Vanessa Lloyd
 303-347-3388 
Coordinator, Special Programs
Barb Ritchie
 303-347-3469 
Coordinator, Secondary Special Education
Carla Cde Baca
 303-347-3474 
Secretary, Special Education Coordinator
Lisa Coder
 303-347-3467 
Coordinator, Elementary Special Education
Pam Deulley
 303-347-3466 
Special Education Coordinator
Rick Frampton
 303-347-3430 
Secretary, Special Education Coordinator
Cathy Carr
 303-347-3539 
Coordinator, English Language Acquisition Coordinator
Jesus Escarcega
 303-347-3448 
Secretary, English Language Acquisition Coordinator
Kathy Puliafico
 303-347-3488 
Coordinator, Gifted and Talented Education
Melinda Ness
 303-347-3477 
Secretary, Coordinator of Gifted and Talented Education
Carole Hough
 303-347-3473