Welcome to Student Services at Chautauqua Lake Central School

The Student Services Department, established at CLCS in Fall 2004, includes special education and all the services that support regular student programming. The department integrates all the related services to create greater collaboration and more support to all students.

The prime responsibility of the Director of Student Services is to provide program direction, leadership and guidance for the student services team at CLCS. There is a strong emphasis on collaboration between the instructional staff and the families being served.

Services — such as special education services, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech/language instruction — may be provided to students from birth through age twenty-one.

The Director of Student Services works collaboratively with all faculty and individual service providers to monitor student services as outlined in the student’s individual educational plan (IEP) and to ensure that those services are integrated into the student’s daily instructional program.

A major focus and responsibility of the Student Services Office is to provide assessments and evaluations to determine what students may or may not need, in order to benefit most from the CLCS regular education programs. Students with disabilities (classified) or students with learning issues that somehow impede their learning processes (“504”) are provided services through the Student Services Office initiatives. For these students and families it all begins here. It is the Director’s job to make sure that every feasible service is available that enables students with unusual needs to learn to their fullest capacity.

Student services enhance and supplement the regular instructional program by assisting students in their personal, physical, social, and communicative skills as well as their academic development. There is strong emphasis placed on transition needs as the students move from preschool to the completion of high school and into higher education or the work force. Intervention is primarily preventative and developmental in nature. Remediation and crisis intervention needs are also addressed.