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Contact Information
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Contact Information
Lucio Padilla, Jr.
Assistant Superintendent
701 W. McCabe Road
El Centro, CA 92243
Phone: (760) 335-5200
Melissa Hodgkin
Educational Specialist/Special Education Teacher
701 W. McCabe Road
El Centro, CA 92243
Miguel Flores
Educational Specialist/Special Education Teacher
701 W. McCabe Road
El Centro, CA 92243
Killian Mancera
Educational Specialist/Special Education Teacher
701 W. McCabe Road
El Centro, CA 92243
Tamari McNeece
Educational Specialist/Special Education Teacher
701 W. McCabe Road
El Centro, CA 92243
Special Education
Educational Specialists
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Special Education
Educational Specialists
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The California Education Code (section 56031) defines special education as:
- Specially designed instruction to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs, whose educational needs cannot be met with modification of the general instruction program; and
- Related services that help individuals with special needs to benefit from specially designed instruction. Special education is an integral part of the total public education system. Other features of special education are:
- Provided in a way that promotes maximum interaction between students with and without disabilities in a manner, which is appropriate to the needs of both;
- Services are no cost to parents;
- It provides a full range of program options to meet the educational and service requirements of individuals with exceptional needs in the least restrictive environment (LRE). The LRE is generally the setting that is most similar to those attended by general education students.
Each student who receives special education services has an Individualized Education Program (IEP) based on their unique needs. The IEP team develops goals based on a student’s educational functioning and determines the appropriate services and placement. These services may include specialized academic instruction, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.
A student, between ages three and twenty-two, having one or more of the 13 federally defined disabling conditions that adversely affect his or her educational performance, may be eligible to receive special education services. Conditions include autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, hearing impairment (hard of hearing), intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, health impairment, serious emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, speech and language impairment, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment.