SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

The mission of the SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM is to provide evaluation, education, and consultation services on behalf of 
children and adolescents with special needs in order to assist school teams and families in preparing students for their 
adult lives.
THE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (SPP) began in August, 1995. 
SPP provides support to school professionals responsible for services to students with disabilities that include 
neurological, genetic, and behavioral conditions. 
This includes children with sensory impairments (blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing or deafblind). 
The SPP team conducts evaluations in the child’s school, and provides community-based education and training to the child’s 
school staff. 
Families are included in the evaluation, as well as during feedback and training sessions.
We use an interdisciplinary approach that can include any or all of our services as needed.

Audiology
Educational audiological evaluations on-site; hearing evaluations available at the Outreach Clinic at Crotched Mountain.

Occupational Therapy
Evaluations include standardized assessments and/or observations of fine motor skills, visual motor and perceptual motor 
abilities, sensory integration and activities of daily living. 

Physical Therapy
Standardized evaluations as well as clinical observations include an assessment of both gross motor ability and functional 
mobility (gait and/or wheelchair). 
These consist of assessing muscle strength, tone, range of motion, posture and balance as they relate to ability to complete
or participate in daily functional skills.

Psychology Services
Cognitive, adaptive behavior and social/emotional evaluations; Functional behavior assessments and behavioral consultation; 
assessments completed using standardized instruments (with or without adaptive techniques), direct observations and 
interviews with school personnel and parents.

Sensory Impairments/Vision
(NH Vision/Hearing Network)
Assessments include deafblind, blind and visually handicapped students as well as those who have additional disabilities. 
This may include use of formal and informal instruments, observations and interviews.

Sensory Integration Therapy
Involves coordinating sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. 
Evaluation and treatment provided by an Occupational Therapist certified to administer the Sensory Integration Praxis Test 
(SIPT).

Special Education
Evaluation and interpretation of functional life and academic skills; assistance to school teams in administering formal 
academic instruments; assistance in developing and implementing individualized educational programs.

Speech-Language Pathology
Evaluation of speech, language and communication skills; assistance to school teams in completing their own evaluations and 
interpreting collected results; Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) evaluation; assistance in developing the IEP
goals and objectives; daily program and materials development; AAC system design and implementation and direct therapy when 
integrated with local school-based programming.

Payment Options
Please call our School Partnership Program office for evaluation and service rates.

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM HAS WORKED WITH THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS:
Contoocook Valley Cooperative, Inter-Lakes Cooperative, Berlin, Newfound Area, Oyster River Cooperative, Claremont, Concord, 
Conway, Derry Cooperative, Londonderry, Hooksett, Exeter, Sanborn Regional, Franklin-Hill, Goffstown-Dunbarton, New Boston, 
Gorham, Hampton Area, Haverhill Cooperative, Henniker, Stoddard, Weare, Bedford, Merrimack, Hudson-Litchfield, 
Pelham-Windham, Keene, Plainfield, Hillsboro-Deering, Littleton-Bethlehem, Manchester, Monadnock Regional, Amherst-Souhegan 
Cooperative, Hollis-Brookline, Nashua, Newport-Croydon-Sunapee, Northwood-Nottingham-Stafford, Merrimack Valley, 
Jaffrey-Rindge, Plymouth, Governor Wentworth Regional, Rye-Greenland-New Castle-Newington, Portsmouth, Pembroke, Rochester, 
Timberlane Regional, Somersworth-Rollinsford, Salem, Winnisquam Regional Cooperative, Fall Mountain Regional Cooperative, 
Farmington-Middleton, Mascoma Valley Regional Cooperative, Wilton-Lyndeborough, Kearsarge Regional, Hopkinton, 
Lincoln-Woodstock, Barrington, Lebanon

COMMENTs FROM OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS:
“...The best experience was that it was a true collaborative effort between Dr. von Hahn and our school personnel with 
excellent follow-up. 
The evaluation will serve as an excellent transition document...”– Melissa Pitti,Swanzey,NH

“...The two things that stood out with our experience were the open lines of communications and team involvement, between 
our teams and the parents...”– Michelle Foley,Barrington,NH

For more information please contact: 
School Partnership Program
Phone: (603) 547-3311, ext. 1664 
E-mail: spp@crotchedmountain.org 
Web: www.crotchedmountain.org