Welcome to the Oswego County BOCES

Special Education Department

Web Page

We provide a comprehensive continuum of services for students with disabilities, ages birth through twenty-one. This continuum includes program classes, related services, itinerant services, and extended school year programming (summer school). Students receiving BOCES programs or services are referred by the home school district Committee on Special Education or Committee on Preschool Special Education.

Department staff serve approximately one thousand students annually. Approximately four hundred students a year attend our preschool or school age program classes. Program classes are strategically located throughout the county in order to accommodate student demographic and program goals. Our goal for students attending program classes is to provide the academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral supports necessary to return to successful programming in their home school district.

More than half of the students we serve annually receive related services or itinerant services in their home school district. The Oswego County BOCES employs a full complement of itinerant staff including: Audiologists, Counselors, Speech Therapists, Teachers of the Deaf, and Teachers of the Visually Impaired.

Our extended school year program offers students the opportunity to attend program classes or receive related services or itinerant services over the summer. Over three hundred students each summer are served. Program classes operate for thirty full school days and are typically located in Fulton and Mexico.

Resource Links:

Oswego County BOCES "Autism Resource Team"

CLICK HERE to access "Oswego County BOCES Special Education Departmental Forms" for download

Authorized users are current staff having a valid BOCES Username and Password

Oswego County Service Directory: County Directory listing available services and contact information.

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New York State Department of Education : University of the State of New York; Elementary, Middle, Secondary and Continuing Education.

VESID :  Vocational & Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities: Special Education.   (Abundant resources and additional links)

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