Special Education services are provided at Central Westmoreland CTC by five certificated Special Education Learning Facilitators. These Facilitators provide “push-in” services to CTE programs to provide both technical and academic support to student with disabilities as well as enhance the delivery of numeracy and literacy strategies. They support the instructors by helping them to understand and implement the IEP. Facilitators will also be available to provide “pull-out” services that are available and given in the Learning Resource Room (LRC) to assist students with their assigned technical content in addition to the core academic subjects as it relates to their technical program. Paraprofessionals within the CTE programs will augment this process to reinforce content area academic and technical skills.

Special Education Instructors

DeMaria, John – Special Education
Phone extension: 1396
Email: jdemaria@cwctc.org

Diehl, Gordon – Special Education
Phone extension: 1318
Email: gdiehl@cwctc.org

Long, Mark – Special Education
Phone extension: 1385
Email: mlong@cwctc.org

Saunders, Steven – Special Education // TLC Coordinator
Phone extension: 1354
Email: ssaunders@cwctc.org

Special Education Learning Facilitators will utilize Waypoint Testing to assess the interests, skills and abilities of prospective students prior to enrollment to help provide the best and most appropriate placement into a CTE program. Upon enrollment, our facilitators play an active role in the IEP team by: monitoring and documenting their progress here at the CTC; attending IEP Meetings at the sending district or hosting them here at the CTC; and providing the case manager(s) with Special Needs Progress Reports at the mid-point of each marking period and communicating with them when there are problems.

The Student Assistance Program helps students overcome barriers to learning so that they achieve, remain in school, and advance. S.A.P. is an intervention program, not a treatment program, that integrates a process of information gathering, and referral through a core team. Confidentiality between all parties involved in the S.A.P. process shall be respected and maintained in the best interest of the student and in accordance with all State and Federal laws protecting the privacy rights of parents and students.
“It takes time to know children; it takes time to work with them…it takes time to think, to read, to visit, to discuss, to seek, to grow, and to continue to grow.”
– Vincent R. Rogers

Team Members

Rich Baur – rbaur@cwctc.org
Beth Butala – bbutala@cwctc.org
Rich Capraun – rcapraun@cwctc.org
Mikki Crist – mcrist@cwctc.org
John Demaria – jdemaria@cwctc.org
Jay Elder – jelder@cwctc.org
Meribeth Elder – melder@cwctc.org
Lon Hayes – lhayes@cwctc.org
Chelsea Herrle – cherrle@cwctc.org
Darius Kovacina – dkovacina@cwctc.org
Mark Long – mlong@cwctc.org
Darlene Patrick – dpatrick@cwctc.org
Lisa Rizza – lrizza@cwctc.org
Cindy Woodward – cwoodward@cwctc.org