Student Services

Speech and Language Therapy is available to Kingsburg Elementary students who qualify and are over 3 years of age. Qualification can be made in the areas of articulation, receptive and expressive language, voice, and pragmatics.

Students may be served in small group pull-out, or in their preschool or classroom setting. Students may be referred by parents, doctors, teachers, or other members of the community.

Please contact Speech Therapist Karissa Albiani at 559-897-2955 if you would like to request a speech and language screening.

Early Intervention is a program designed to serve preschool students, ages 3-5, who have been identified as requiring special education and who reside in the Kingsburg Elementary School District. All students in the program have an Individualized Education Plan and qualify under an established qualifying condition (Speech and Language, Autism, Visual Impairment, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability, or other established medical disability etc.)

It meets three times weekly for ninety minutes per session on the Washington Preschool campus. The program emphasizes early language development. It is taught by preschool instructors and is monitored and supported by a Speech-Language Pathologist and a Resource Specialist, a School Psychologist as well as other staff.

The program is offered Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Session 1 is from 8:30-10
Session 2 is from 10:30-12:00

The preschool instructors are: Grace Pena, Stasia Pollack, and Kirsten Gould.

Please contact Erin Pasillas at the Special Education Office (897-6864) for more information.

Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) District-Wide Implementation

What is PBIS?Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is a proactive, team based framework designed to keep schools safe and effective. PBIS makes the prevention of problem behaviors, development of pro-social skills, and the use of databased problem solving a priority. School-wide PBIS increases the schools ability to educate all students using research-based school-wide, classroom, and individualized interventions.

When students are taught clearly defined behavior expectations, and given either positive or corrective responses to their behavior, 80-85% of students will meet these expectations. The 15-20% of the students not responding to universal interventions will receive additional support through group and individual interventions. The ultimate goal is to increase student academic performance, decrease problem behaviors, increase safety, and establish positive school climates through research based strategies and systems.

• Incentive Examples- tickets, prizes, monthly drawings, classroom rewards.
• Intervention Examples- Small group lessons on pro-social behavior, Check-in Check-Out charts, Recess
• Academies, positive behavior charts, modified schedules or recesses.

How can you help?

• Review behavior expectations with your child
• Use behavior expectations at home
• Provide positive reinforcement (reward good choices with compliments or quality time) at home
• Share comments with PBIS team members; contact your child’s school for a list of team members

For more information regarding PBIS at your child’s school site contact the Student Services Office at (559) 897-6864.