Wareham, MA: District to provide more counseling for students "with emotional disabilities"

Jan 17, 2018, Wareham (MA) Week: Wareham Public Schools focuses on helping students with emotional disabilities, traumatic history https://wareham-ma.villagesoup.com/p/wareham-public-schools-focuses-on-helping-students-with-emotional-disabilities-traumatic-history/1718586 Wareham Public Schools is working to provide more support to students with emotional disabilities, bringing more resources to the table to give them a productive learning environment. … The school has been able to use grant money to provide quality consulting and more Board Certified Behavior Analyst support to the programs in the district in an effort to strengthen all special education programming. Two Board Certified Behavior Analysts already serve Wareham Public Schools and, with grant money, they will each be there two days a week now instead of just one. Fay said the district is also adding a training for paraprofessionals that work in special education programs to make them certified Registered Behavior Technicians. Of students placed in out of district programs, 80 percent of them identified as having an emotional disability. Some of these are due to traumatic events in a student’s past. This is a high number of students with emotional disability compared to other school districts she’s worked in, Fay said. …