The first annual NJ Case conference was
held at the Union County Educational Services building on
Thursday, March 19 with a discussion of “SPECIALIZED
PLACEMENTS: Where are we now? Where are we headed”.
Leading the discussion were: Gary Molenaar, Director of
Instruction, Bergen County Special Services (BCSS),
Heather Mills-Pevonis, New Jersey Department of Education,
Union county supervisor of Child Study, and Athina
Cornell, Esq., partner in Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook
& Cooper.
James McLaughlin, President of NJ Case,
welcomed over 50 guests and provided an overview of the
conference. He thanked the Union County Educational
Services Commission for the outstanding refreshments and
their donation of the meeting space and introduced the
participants and facilitated the questioning at the
conclusion of the prepared remarks..
Molenaar discussed the services that his
group provides. He explained that many school districts
act as hosts for various programs, including students with
emotional disabilities, multiple disabilities, deaf and
hard of hearing and students with autism, with all
students benefiting. The example he provided is Midland
Park, which houses a program for deaf children, where the
general education students reap the benefits of carpeting
and FM systems. A second program for districts is the
C.A.P.E. (Collaboration Access Planning Education) which
provides resource coordination of special services to
families, individuals and professional providers. With
Educational Enterprises, districts can collaborate with
BCSS to provide highly specialized services to their
students while they remain in their local school
districts. Molenaar reiterated that for BCSS, Least
Restrictive Environment (LRE) can be accomplished by
districts accessing these services.
Recently, NJCASE provided input on pending regulations
concerning speech/language specialist requirements.
NJCASE is pleased that its input received consideration by
the NJ Department of Education as attested to by the
correspondence we have received.
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