Seascoast Region

The cities/towns that comprise our region are: Barrington, Brentwood, Chester, Dover, Durham, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Farmington, Fremont, Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston, Lee, Madbury, Middleton, Milton, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Northwood, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Raymond, Rochester, Rollinsford, Rye, Seabrook, Somersworth, South Hampton, Strafford, Stratham, Wakefield .

What's Happening Statewide!

Parent Involvement In Special Education 2009-2010 Survey coming soon!


Announcing the 2009-2010 Parent Involvement Survey from the NH Department of Education Bureau of Special Education.

If you are the parent of a child between the ages of 3 and 21 who
receives special education services, the New Hampshire Department of Education needs your input on the Parent Involvement Survey for parents whose children receive Special Education services.
The survey will be mailed to your home during March and April , 2010.

Your input and opinions about parent involvement in special education helps to improve special education services for your child and other children across the state.

Once you receive the survey, please complete it and return it in the postage-paid envelope by the date posted - toward the end of April,2010.

If you need any help to complete the survey, such as a reader, a translator, or a large print survey, or you do not receive a survey there will be assistance available to you.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

NH Connections provides schools with technical assistance - see Six Steps to Improvement and visit the Parent Involvement page of the NH Department of Education Bureau of Special Education website for tips on how to promote participation in the next survey.

Thank you for your time and participation!

Welcome!

Seacoast Region

If you're interested in joining the Network, please contact

Deborah A. Rosato
Interim Seacoast Region Facilitator
603.848.4204
drosato@picnh.org

NH Connections offers a wealth of information through this website. We are equipped to provide technical assistance to special education directors, coordinators and teachers on how to engage parents of children with disabilities and their families in their child’s learning and development. We are equipped to help you to engage parents to be involved in priority issues around special education at your school.  The benefits (a hyperlink on benefits home/workshops/parents) of why you would want to engage parents are grounded in research.

NH Connections offers toolkits, checklists, and resources that will help to create and sustain relationships among school personnel of special education teachers, special education coordinators and paraprofessionals, and parents and families.

When school personnel and parents work together towards shared interests, relationships develop and grow and respect for one another is earned. Partnerships in your school district are then created to benefit school personnel and parents and their actions will ultimately benefit students with disabilities.

Read further to find successful stories in regions of NH of people who are making a difference in special education.