Staff Shortage Forces Special Needs Students in Fresno Unified to Get Speech Lessons by Video
February 15, 2019
By: Aleksandra Appleton
Source: The Fresno Bee
Fresno Unified will spend nearly $1 million to offer speech and language lessons for students with special needs by video chat.
Brian Beck, FUSD assistant superintendent for special education, said the first and best option would be to have district speech language pathologists and assistants in the classroom with students, but staffing shortages have made that impossible.
“This is the only way that every student who needs these services gets them,” Beck said.