Department of Pupil Services
Project SEARCH
Project SEARCH is a one year, high school transition program which provides training and education leading to employment for individuals with disabilities. This Project SEARCH program occurs on-site at Dublin Methodist Hospital. Each student applies to the program and is accepted through a selection committee process. All students must be eligible for services with the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission to participate.
The cornerstone of Project SEARCH is total immersion in the Dublin Methodist Hospital environment. Each day students learn employability skills in the classroom and job skills while participating in 3 internships/experiences throughout the year. Students participate in monthly progress meetings to define their career goals and plan necessary steps to achieve that goal.
Lamisa is currently a Project Search participant from Hilliard Darby High School. She is in her second rotation at the hospital in nutrition services. Lamisa is averaging a 97% weekly success rate as she is required to complete tasks such as preparing patient food trays, transporting food carts to various floors, and preparing, setting up and maintaining the salad bar daily. With a hospital of this caliber, maintaining such a large food source can be very daunting. Lamisa quotes “I have learned so much from Project Search like how to talk and work at the same time.” Kelley Kobashigawa, Lamisa’s Project Search instructor reports, “Lamisa would be an asset to Nutrition Services as a Dublin Methodist employee.”
Lamisa has come a long way through her schooling at Hilliard Darby High School and through her programming at Project Search. Her life goal is to obtain a job in Nutrition Services and begin taking classes at Columbus State in the near future. We are so proud of Lamisa and her accomplishments.
Pupil Services
Approximately 11% of the Hilliard student population has been identified
with a disability. These exceptional students have unique characteristics
and needs, many of which are best met by the classroom teacher who differentiates
instruction for them with support from a special education specialist.
Some exceptional students require more intensive services in a resource
room setting. Special education intervention specialists work cooperatively
with classroom teachers and other school personnel to ensure a common
understanding and response to all of our students with special needs.
Child Find
The Hilliard City School District is required to locate all children, who may have disabilities, ages birth through 21, who reside within its boundaries. Special education services are available in our schools for any child identified with a disability ages 3 through 21. If you have a child or know of a child you suspect may have a disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and who reside in Hilliard, please call Vicky Clark, Director of Pupil Services at 921-7000 or contact your building principal.
Students with Disabilities Served
A. Preschool Age Children (ages 3-5)
B. School Age (ages 6-21) students with identified disability conditions
- Autism
- Cognitive Disabilities
- Multiple Disabilities
- Specific Learning Disabilities
- Other Health Impairment
- Orthopedically Handicapped
- Severe Emotional Disturbance
- Hearing Impairment
- Visual Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Speech / Language Disability
Continuum of Special Education Services
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) requires states to establish procedures to assure, "that to the maximum extent appropriate," students with disabilities are educated with children who are not disabled. Programs serving children with learning challenges as well as those with speech/language and other related services needs are available in nearly all buildings. Programs for children with multiple disabilities and for those with emotional/behavioral needs are available in selected buildings.
A. Collaboration/Consultation Services - Regular Education Classes
Collaboration/consultation
services focus on special educators and general educators working together
to best meet the needs of students with disabilities as well as children
who may be "at risk". Each building operates
Intervention Assistance Teams to promote cooperative teacher planning,
to individualize learning experiences and to effectively integrate resources
which would positively impact the child's educational program.
B. Supplemental Services Teacher
The supplemental services teachers provide to classroom teachers
supplemental aids and services necessary to enable a student with a disability
to receive an appropriate education in the regular classroom environment.
C. Individual/Small Group
The Individual/Small Group
Instruction program provides students with disabilities with support
that helps to increase their opportunity to benefit from regular class
placement. This is supplemental instruction which focuses on assisting
students in becoming independent in the "process" of
learning through the use of compensatory strategies, intervention support,
and study/organizational techniques.
D. Special Class/Resource Room
The Special Class/Resource Room serves children whose disabilities require
a special education program on a part-time basis. Continued participation
in the child's regular class activities is encouraged. The Resource Rooms
offer an alternative curriculum which provides a student with a disability
with a personalized option that is not offered in the general education
program.
E. Separate Facility
Separate facilities are, typically, schools outside of the district
that are designed specifically for students with disabilities.
F. Home Instruction
Home instruction is an individualized education program provided
at home to a child with a disability which prevents the child from attending
a regular or special program even with the aid of special transportation.
G. Institutions and Hospitals.
Related Services
Related Services are support services needed to allow children with disabilities to benefit from special education. These include:
- Adapted Physical Education Services
- Attendant Services
- Guide Services
- Occupational Therapy Services
- Physical Therapy Services
- Speech and Language Services
- Aide Services
- Audiological Services
- Interpreter Services
- Orientation & Mobility Services
- School Psychological Services
- Transportation
- Work-Study Services
Other Support Personnel/Programs
- Counseling Services
- Nursing Services
- Special Olympics
Resources for Parents
ODE:
Whose IDEA Is This? A Resource Guide for Parents
The Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities,
740-382-5452 and 1-800-374-2806.
The State of Ohio Office of Exceptional Children,
(614) 466-2650.
Special Education/Pupil Services
5323 Cemetery Rd.
Hilliard, Ohio 43026
(614) 921-7000
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
(Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability)
- Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability – ACB-R
- Procedural Safeguards Notice – IGBA-E
- Programs for Students with Disabilities – IGBA-R
- Equal Education Opportunities – JB-R
Other Documents
Pupil Services Director and Coordinators
| Pupil Services Director: | Responsibilities: |
| Vicky Clark | Oversees all Preschool and K-12 special education programs, pupil services and guidance programs in the district. |
| Pupil Services Coordinators: | Assignment: |
| Mike Abraham | Horizon, Heritage, Memorial, Bradley High, Darby High, SST, Tolles, Work Study Program, Psychologists |
| Jill Donahue | Britton, Darby Creek, Davidson High, St. Brendan, Out of District, Tolles. LEAD Program, Work Study Program, Autism Scholarship Program |
| Melva Bobbitt | Alton Darby, Avery, Beacon, Brown, Hilliard Crossing, Norwich, Ridgewood, Scioto Darby, Speech Therapists |
| Debbie Cochran | Hoffman Trails, JW Reason, Washington, Hilliard Station, Hilliard Tharp, Weaver, HATT, Motor Team, Nurses |
| Preschool Princpal | Assignment: |
| Annette Andres | Oversees all preK Programming at HCSD Preschool Program |