The Greece Central School District is facing a growing need for support services for students with disabilities.
Some of the youngest students who qualified for early intervention as infants or toddlers did not end up receiving those services and are entering prekindergarten at a deficit, said Stacey Brindisi, executive director of the district’s pupil personnel service department, which oversees special education.
“We’ve had to really kind of back it up and say, ‘Our systems can’t fail our kids when the outside systems did,’” Brindisi said at a school board meeting Tuesday. “So typically, kids would come in, and we would have a series of interventions and supports. And now we say, ‘If you’re a preschool student in Greece and you didn’t get services, then you’re coming into Greece, and we’re figuring out how to get those services to you.’”…