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Mission & Goals

Keri Ventura and Kinems smart board presentation

Keri Ventura, teacher for multiply-disabled students at Beachwood Elementary, piloted an innovative educational platform during the summer of 2024. The Promethean smart board from is designed to help all students, including those with multiple learning disabilities, achieve their goals. Students truly enjoyed the smart board's hands-on, kinesthetic learning, so much so that Ms. Ventura is seeking a grant to make the platform a permanent fixture.

Mission

To provide specialized and i锘縩dividualized education to all students in the least restrictive environment

Department Goals

Community Engagement: Parent involvement in an important part of their child鈥檚 education. Their input is critical in making collaborative educational and academic decisions. In order to make data driven decisions, it is necessary that parents understand the various levels of support available for their child in both general education and special education while supporting services in the least restrictive environment.

Student Achievement: Increase academic achievement and overall engagement through data collection while addressing the needs of individual students who are most at-risk students. Students will be receiving systematic, explicit evidence-based interventions and student achievement through increased data collection opportunities in all special education classrooms utilizing supplemental supports and programs.

Culture & Climate: Continue to improve district culture and climate as measured by decreased chronic student absenteeism, decreased disciplinary incidences and improved student relationships in support of the district-wide kindness initiative. CST team members will become well-versed in New Jersey Tiered Systems of Support (NJTSS) in order to identify and support struggling students, provide targeted academic and behavioral interventions to students that meet criteria, reduce the over-referral of students to special education or labeled as disabled.

Programs Offered

A general education program that offers supplemental support to a student that requires prompting, redirecting, organization support, and/or reinforcement of personal, social, academic and behavioral goals. 

In-Class Resource (ICR)- A general education program that offers specialized instruction with a general education and special education teacher. The student shall be provided modification to the instructional strategies or testing procedures or other specialized instruction to access the general education curriculum in accordance with the students IEP. ICR is offered in various classes in each building throughout the District. 

Preschool Disabled (PSD)- A program for students that have been found eligible as a "preschool child with a disability". Students would be between the ages of 3-5 and experience at 33% delay in one of the 5 required areas, or a 25% delay in two or more of the required areas. Gen Ed preschools are offered at the following schools:  Citta, Silver Bay, and the Early Learning Center.  Preschool Disabilities Programs are offered in: Cedar Grove, Silver Bay, and the Early Learning Center. 

Pull out Replacement Resource (POR)- A special education pull out class providing small group instruction to students with disabilities and run by a special education teacher. POR classes are offered at various levels in each school across the District. 

Learning and Language Disabilities (LLD)- A special class program, taught by a special education teacher, that is organized around the learning disabilities and/or language disabilities.  LLD classes are offered at the elementary level. 

Auditory Impairment (AI)- Our deaf and hard of hearing students are integrated in programs throughout the District and receive Teacher of the Deaf and/or interpreter services for support.

Autism- A special class program for students with an autism diagnosis. A wide spectrum of classes is offered that fall under the "Autism" umbrella . Programs are available at Beachwood, Cedar Grove, East Dover, Hooper Ave, Walnut Street, Intermediate South, and High 乐鱼体育 East

Emotional Regulation Impairment Classes (ERI)- A special class program, run by a special education teacher, that focuses on students that exhibit behavioral needs and require specialized instruction to address those needs. Our ERI programs are held at West Dover and High 乐鱼体育 East.

Intellectually Disabled (ID, formerly CI)- A special class program, run by a special education teacher, for students with cognitive disabilities. Our ID classes are offered at North Dover, Intermediate South, and High 乐鱼体育 North. 

Multiply Disabled (MD)- A special class program run by a special education teacher. These programs are based on the needs of the students with more than one disabling condition. Our various types of MD programs are offered at Beachwood, East Dover, Silver Bay, Walnut, West Dover, Intermediate East, Intermediate South, Intermediate North and High 乐鱼体育 East.

A program for students that have reached graduation age but still require additional education to achieve their IEP and graduation goals. A special class program is available at High 乐鱼体育 East.  In addition, we have a 乐鱼体育 to Work program that allows our students to gain additional work and employment skills.  

In Action

toms river regional schools special education parent advisory group

Upcoming SEPAG Events

Our network of parents of children with special meets several times throughout the school year to share information and promote communication.

KIDZ KORNER is an after school care program for youth ages 6-21

Kidz Korner

For information on Kidz Korner, see this linked flyer and/or contact [email protected].
autism summit

District Leads First Annual County-Wide Autism Summit

More than 50 educators representing 13 districts throughout Ocean County and the region participated in a hands on Autism Summit organized by Toms River Regional 乐鱼体育s.

Office of Special Services

Assistant Superintendent- Elementary: Mrs. Cara DiMeo [email protected]

Assistant Superintendent- Secondary: Mr. Pat Thomas [email protected] 

Director of Special Services: Mrs. Joy Forrest [email protected]

Principal, Early Learning Center: Michael Devita  [email protected]

Supervisor of Elementary Special Education: Mrs. Dana Weber [email protected] 

Supervisor of Secondary Special Education: Ms. Catherine Mellon [email protected]

CST Information And Contact

Kelly McNamara, LDTC,  [email protected]

Joanna Novaky, LDTC, [email protected]

Dina Delasso, school psychologist, [email protected]

Kari Keale, social worker,  [email protected]

Jaimee Jones, social worker, [email protected]

Yesenia Newcomb, secretary,  [email protected]

Stacey Arnett, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Linda Abramski, secretary, [email protected]


Nicole Formichella, school psychologist  [email protected]

Rosanne Walsh, secretary,  [email protected]

Paul Fink, LDTC,  [email protected]

Lisa Frazzitta, Social Worker, [email protected]

Heather Coppinger, secretary, [email protected]

Jamie Sebastian, LDTC, [email protected]

Mckenzie Reed, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Joan Gallagher , secretary, [email protected]

Renee Verdon, LDTC.  [email protected]

Christine Malinowski, social worker,  [email protected]

Lea Valentino, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Heather Coppinger, secretary,  [email protected]

Marissa Petraccoro, social worker,  [email protected]

Linda Abramski, secretary [email protected]

Ellen Higgins, LDTC,  [email protected]

Moira Gambarony, social worker,  [email protected]

Heather Coppinger, secretary,  [email protected]


Danielle LaVelle, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Linda Abramski, secretary, [email protected] 

Dena Kibel, LDTC,  [email protected]

Jamie Cegerenko, social worker,  [email protected]

Joan Gallagher, secretary, [email protected]


Rosanne Walsh, secretary,  [email protected]

Jason Ruch, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Rosanne Walsh, secretary,  [email protected]

Caroline Velasquez, LDTC,  [email protected]

Kristen Stewart, school psychologist, [email protected]

Heather Price, social worker, [email protected]

Cheryl Pratola, secretary,  [email protected]

Diana Brush, LDTC, [email protected]

Anne Marie Drake, school psychologist,  [email protected]

Yaniliz Hererra, social worker, [email protected]

Priscila Caruso, secretary, [email protected]

TBD, LDTC

Kevin Huff, school psychologist, [email protected]

TBD, social worker

Toni Costanza, secretary,  [email protected]

Dru Fonseca, LDTC, [email protected]

Bridget Abatemarco, school psychologist, [email protected]

Robin Lowery, school psychologist, [email protected]

James Cartnick, social worker, [email protected]

Lisa Varley, secretary, [email protected]

Sybil Canary, LDTC, [email protected]

Monique Reed, school psychologist, [email protected]

Meredith Brooks, social worker, [email protected]

Abbi Coughlin, social worker, [email protected]

Stephanie Diaz, secretary, [email protected]

Andrea Brierley, LDTC, [email protected]

Bridget Abatemarco, school psychologist, [email protected]

Eleanor Terrill, social worker, [email protected]

Veronica Greenlow, secretary, [email protected]

Colleen O'Donnell, BCBA, [email protected]

Sarah Strazzella, BCBA, [email protected]

Gina Rios, BCBA, [email protected]