Special Education Services

Class Measures can help schools and districts provide the best possible service for Special Educational Needs (SEN) students in the context of their own state law. The range of Class Measures services is wide. For example, there are members of the team will work with administrators designing effective policy or scheduling and others who can provide professional development for teachers on inclusion.

Specialist inspectors also conduct audits of special educational programs and schools that target specific parts of the special education population, including students with emotional and behavioral difficulties.

As well as consultancy support, evaluation, professional development and auditing, Class Measures can also help schools and school districts outsource special education services through the FuturesHealth Corp. Class Measures is the external quality control service provider to FuturesHealth. For information on outsourcing special services, please contact Lisa Demoulias, Vice President of Operations, lisaclassmeasures@verizon.net

Personnel

Dennis Vogel Ed.D.

Dennis Vogel Ed.D. spent 25 years of his 37 year career in education teaching, administering or evaluating special education programs. Prior to beginning his consulting work, Dr. Vogel was the Springfield Public School School Support Coordinator in charge of all underperforming schools. He developed support protocols for 25 of the 45 city schools and helped develop (along with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)) the School Improvement Protocol (SIP) system in Springfield.

Utilizing investigatory techniques he learned as a school psychology doctoral student and his 14 years experience as a special needs teacher, Dr. Vogel interviews all stakeholders when reviewing programs to get at procedural and communication impediments as well as highlighting areas of need and concern for each stakeholder represented. Results of his investigations are written as findings, which are data supported.

SiriNam S. Khalsa, MSEd

SiriNam S. Khalsa, MSEd, is an Instructional Leadership Specialist (ILS) for special education, educational consultant, author, and National Board Certified Teacher. In his most recent position as an ILS, he supported the successful implementation of differentiated instructional strategies in elementary, middle, and high schools of a large urban school district. He received special recognition as 2002 Distinguished Teacher, as well as Massachusetts Special Education Teacher of the Year and most recently Massachusetts 2004 Teacher of the Year finalist.

SiriNam has been featured in educational articles, most recently the National Education Association magazine, NEA Today, (2004). He has authored several educational books including Teaching Discipline and Self-Respect Effective Strategies and Lessons for Successful Classroom Management (2007), Break the Bully Cycle: Intervention Teachniques and Activities to Create a Responsible School Community (2007), The Inclusive Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators (2005), and Group Exercises for Social Skills and Self-Esteem, Vol I&II (1996,1999). The strategies offered in his books are taken from over twenty-five years of experience teaching and learning from his students and colleagues. The quickest way to order one of SiriNam's books is to "Google" his name: Sirinam Khalsa.

Dr. Silvia Corbera

Silvia Corbera earned her Ph.D in Psychology at the University of Barcelona. She joined the Neuroscience Doctoral program and worked for five years at the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology. Also, she gained clinical experience working more than two years in two clinics in Barcelona as a therapist and a neuropsychologist. Her technical expertise includes neuropsychological testing, EEG, ERPs and fMRI. Both her academic and clinical experience has been with teenagers and children with all kinds of learning, cognitive and emotional disorders. She has been involved in a range of different international research lines involving the study of the neurological subtrates of ADHD and dyslexia.