Special Education Services

Fife Public Schools offers a comprehensive continuum of services and placement options for preschool students to meet each student’s unique needs in the least restrictive environment, as described in their Individualized Education Program (IEP), including:

• Developmental Preschool: Early Childhood Special Education Classrooms
• Itinerant Special Education Services provided in ECEAP classrooms
• Therapy Services (i.e. speech-language, physical, and occupational therapy)If you are concerned for a preschooler with a possible delay in development, please call our Child Find Screening and Referral line (253) 517-1088.  

Resources

• Fife Public School Special Education Department 

County, State and Federal Sites:

• Down Syndrome Washington
• Child Care Resources, King County
• Wa State Dept. of Social & health Services/Division of Developmental Disabilities
• Social Security Disability Programs
• Washington State Health Care Authority
• Washington State Medicaid
• Thrive by Five Washington - Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Somali

 Support Sites:

• Parent to parent support groups
• Parent Help 123, Within Reach, resources for family health

Autism Sites:

• Autism Speaks
• Autism Society of Washington
• National Autism Center
• University of Washington Autism Center
• Seattle Children’s Hospital autism classes

Literacy Sites:

• Storybird
• King County Public Library
• Zero to Three – Promoting Early Language and Literacy Development