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ZANE CLARK/The Sun
Cinnaminson High School softball player Brittany Runyen slid into home plate during the May 14 game against Palmyra High School.
The Pirates went on to claim a 10-2 victory.
Cinnaminson tops Palmyra, 10-2
School
district
hiring
aides
By ZANE CLARK
The Sun
The Cinnaminson School Dis-
trict is in the process of hiring
paraprofessionals to replace 10 of
the 14 contracted third-party
aides who work with special
needs children.
The district uses the services of
The Learning Well LLC, a compa-
ny that services the needs of de-
velopmentally delayed children
in various school districts, mostly
throughout Burlington County.
At the May 13 meeting of the
Cinnaminson Board of Educa-
tion, Barbara Scola, director of
special services for the district,
gave a presentation about the new
paraprofessional positions.
Earlier this year, the district
hired a board certified behavior
analyst, a specialist with a mas-
ters degree who mostly oversees
programs for the districts stu-
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School hosts Pre-K Art Show
On Friday, May 9, Westfield
Friends School hosted one of the
most anticipated events of the
school year the Pre-K Art Show.
The youngest students proudly
conduct tours of their artwork
for all of the guests who attend
the show, including fellow West-
field students from kindergarten
through middle school, teachers,
and very proud parents and
grandparents.
The children guide everyone
through the large and sunny pre-
K classroom to see all styles of art
that they created throughout the
school year. Some paintings re-
flect what they have learned
about artists such as Picasso, Van
Gogh and Georgia OKeefe. There
are masks, watercolors, stamped
paintings and self-portraits dis-
played all around the room. It was
quite an impressive display that
showcased the talents of the
preschoolers.
Westfield Friends is accepting
applications for the 2014-2015
school year. Visit its website at www.westfieldfriends.org for de- tails.
Special to The Sun
Rebecca Peterson of Cinnaminson, Carolyn Hill of Moorestown and
Rhyze Jones of Pennsauken are dressed up and happy to show their
artwork at the Westfield Friends School Pre-K Art Show. Westfield
Friends is currently accepting applications for the 2014-2015 school
year. Visit its website at www.westfieldfriends.org for details.
dents with autism on a day-to-day
basis. Scola said the BCBA was
already able to keep a number of
students in district this year in-
stead of having to send them out
of district.
Scola believes the natural pro-
gression from hiring the BCBA is
to continue to hire district aides
or paraprofessionals to support
the students.
Our goal here is to hire dis-
trict aides, instead of consulting
for these aides, so that we have a
full package in-house, Scola said.
With that in mind, weve devel-
oped this new job description
which is called the applied behav-
ior analysis technician.
Scola said the board that certi-
fies the behavior analyst is creat-
ing a credential for paraprofes-
sionals who work with the autis-
tic students to elevate the position
and recognizing the skill set that
is necessary to work with these
students.
In order to meet this require-
ment, the certification board is
requiring a mandatory pre-serv-
ice training and a completion of a
total of 40 hours of specialized
ABA training, and this is within a
90-day period, Scola said. This
is in addition to the fact that all of
the people that we intend to hire,
and right now we are looking to
hire 10 people, all of them will al-
ready have experience in ABA,
but the training is required to get
the credentialing.
However, the paraprofessionals
wont be certified after they are
hired, as the new credential wont
be effective until the summer, and
even then those aiming to become
certified have to work for a full
year before they can get the cre-
dential, according to Scola.
Scola said those applying now
have about five to seven years of
ABA experience.
We had about 50 resumes
come into us, Scola said. We
screened them for people with
just ABA experience. We inter-
viewed 10 people with excellent
experience, and we wound up of-
fering five people the position. We
will readvertise because we want
to hire 10 people, but the creden-
tials that were getting and the
people were extremely pleased.
They are very highly qualified.
Scola said one of the biggest
differences between the parapro-
fessionals and the contracted
aides is the current aides dont re-
port to the teacher, but instead to
whomever oversees their job
through the third-party company.
That aide is not reporting to
the teacher because theyre not
one of our employees, Scola
said. So its really important for
these aides to be one our employ-
ees and to be part of the whole
classroom and part of the team
thats operating within that class-
room. We are trying to create
teams within the classroom so all
of the paraprofessionals work
with all of the students and they
get used to all of them. They can
generalize all of their skills, and
its more of a team rather than
the one-on-one thats been used
currently.
Bill Conley, a parent of child in
the district with special needs,
voiced concerns on behalf of a
group of parents in attendance
who also had children with spe-
cial needs.
Our concern is about the
aides that are certified, that you
are replacing them with people
that arent necessarily as certi-
fied and trained as well as what
we have in place now, Conley
said. This will in essence reduce
our childrens services without
any evidence to support a reduc-
tion.
Conley questioned how the dis-
tricts one BCBA would be able to
oversee the hours and programs
for all the new potential aides as-
sisting children, and what would
be in place for the children once
they transitioned into middle
school and high school.
Whats in place for the kids for
when they transition to middle
school and they transition to the
high school? Conley asked. Its
as if the district somehow feels
that by middle school our chil-
dren should no longer need any
kind of support services. For
many of our children, their needs
will be lifelong, and putting them
into the middle school with little
to no support has the potential to
cause extreme trauma, the effects
of which could be life altering.
Scola responded that there
would be no reduction to the serv-
ices, and in many cases, students
could be getting more services.
She also said the new aides would
have just as much skill set as the
current aides.
We have not really cut any-
thing from any of the students,
Scola said. Now granted, as stu-
dents get older the goal is to make
them more independent. The
services that they get from when
they are younger are slowly
pulled away to make them more
independent. That is a natural oc-
currence.
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