Special Education Registration Forms

General Education Registration Forms

Transportation Forms

The information below pertains to Albany County Transportation. For transportation information regarding all other counties, please call Newmeadow at (518) 899-9235.

Albany County

Albany County Parent Transport Form
Albany County Transportation Request Form SY 2021-2022
Albany County Declination of Reimbursement for Parent Transportation Form
Albany County Transportation Change Form
Albany County Transportation Reimbursement Form

Rensselaer County

Rensselaer County Department Transportation Form – Clifton Park

Saratoga County

Saratoga County Parent Transport Form
Saratoga County Transportation Reimbursement Form
Saratoga County Transportation Request Form – Clifton Park 2021-22 School Year
Saratoga County Transportation Request Form – Fort Edward 2021-22 School Year

Evaluation Forms

Committee for Preschool Special Education (CPSE) Evaluation Procedures

Evaluation of a child by Newmeadow consists of observation and testing by a developmental assessment team.

Initially, the parent may be asked to engage in a 10-minute play session with the child using a variety of toys. This serves to acquaint the child with the testing environment and allows the assessment team to observe the child’s communication skills with familiar adults. The evaluation occurs at Newmeadow and takes approximately two hours.

Evaluation techniques and testing include the following: A member of the assessment team engages the child in informal play/social interactions to observe the child’s social development, ability to follow directions, attention span, spontaneous speech patterns, motor skills and general cognitive abilities. The Speech and Language Therapist evaluates receptive language, expressive language and articulation.

Receptive language refers to the child’s understanding of spoken words, directions, concepts and questions. A variety of standardized assessment tools, parent report and information collected through observation during play are used to determine the child’s receptive language level.

Expressive language refers to the child’s ability to communicate a message using combinations of sounds, words and/or gestures. Attempts to engage the child in verbal interactions will be made through conversation/play, question and answering and use of standardized assessments. Results of these measures as well as parent information will be used to determine the child’s expressive communication level.

Articulation refers to the production of specific speech sounds. The child’s ability to produce different consonants and vowels will be noted and then compared to typical speech sound development according to the child’s chronological age. Assessment of articulation will be addressed at the single word and conversational levels with careful attention to occurrences of frustration.

A clinical judgment regarding the child’s speech intelligibility (the listener’s ability to understand the child’s speech) will then be made.

The School Psychologist uses a combination of formal assessment and parent interview to determine a child’s developmental levels. The child’s ability to solve problems, how the child interacts with others (siblings, parents, peers, other adults), and the child’s ability to perform self-help skills (eating, dressing, toileting) are a few of the areas discussed. If the child attends nursery school or a day care center, the psychologist may schedule an observation of that setting.

Information obtained by the psychologist along with results obtained by other members of the developmental assessment team determine the child’s current level of functioning. These results will be discussed with the parent immediately following the evaluation.

Developmental & Social Questionnaire (CPSE)
Early Childhood Social Competence Rating Scale-Teacher Version
Medical Statement of Child