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Welcome to the ASHPAC Web Site The Ashland
Parent Advisory Council (ASHPAC) has had some technical difficulty getting
our website updated and running the past school year so thank you for your
patience. The board of ASHPAC would like to welcome you back to the
2007-2008 academic years. Thanks to
our webmaster, Tim Rico for keeping the information current and working
toward accomplishing one of ASHPAC’s goals for this year. (See GOALS under ABOUT ASHPAC). We would
like to thank Dr. Hoffmann and Mrs. Gala for speaking at our first meeting of
the year in early October. Their
presentation was very thorough and did an excellent job in addressing
questions submitted prior to the meeting.
You may view the power point presentation at the Ashland Public
Schools website under the Special Education section at www.ashland.k12.ma.us. Please
contact us for any clarification of the material at the ashpac_web
@hotmail.com address. Our second
meeting featured Massachusetts State Representative Tom Sannicandro who spoke
about his involvement in special education, beginning with his role as a
parent of a child with special needs, then as PAC chair, school committee
representative and finally as a legislator.
He is well aware of the need for funding of mandates proposed by the
federal and state governments. He
urged us to become involved by contacting him as well as other key members of
the Legislature on issues affecting our children. Phone calls, e-mails, and letters to
legislators help raise the awareness of situations that we as parents of
children of special needs face everyday.
ASHPAC intends to inform you when we need to make our voices
heard. On October
23rd, ASHPAC was pleased to partner with the Ashland K-12 PTO to present
Sarah Ward, Speech and Language Pathologist, for an informative lecture on
organization and executive function skills. She gave many helpful
strategies to help children focus and learn how to complete tasks
independently. Even though this was her second appearence in Thanks to
all who participated in our fall fundraiser.
Money raised through this sale will go back to our community in a
number of different ways. (Click on
GOALS under the ABOUT ASHPAC section to view past donations.) The pies, kitchen and party ware will be
delivered on Thursday, November 15th to the Updating
this website and providing information and resources is one of this group’s
goals for this year. If you have any
comments, suggestions or have information to share, please send an e-mail to ashpac_web@hotmail.com We welcome
your input. last updated
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