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100A Ontario Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Phone: 705-945-5677 | Fax: 705-945-5681
District Consultant Office:
Phone: 705-356-6781 or 705-356-5627
Fax: 705-356-7188
Our Plan
Publications
2024-25 Editions
SEAC – Special Education Advisory Committee
SEAC Mandate: Our mandate is to make recommendations to the Board on any matters affecting the establishments, development and delivery of special education programs and services. We are guided by Provincial SEAC regulation 464-97.
SEAC Focus: Our focus is the special needs of children with exceptionalities – intellectual, physical, social, emotional and behaviours – to ensure all students can achieve their full potential.
SEAC Meetings: The committee meets once a month throughout the school year. Meeting dates are noted below in the Meeting Minutes section. Meetings begin at 4:00 p.m. unless noted otherwise.
CONTACT SeAC
If you have any inquiries for the SEAC Committee please email Seac.Inquiries@hscdsb.on.ca
SEAC Committee Members
- Superintendent for Special Education – Franca Spadafora
- Board of Trustees – Gary Trembinski
- Algoma Family Services – Theresa Coccimiglio
- Community Living Algoma – Jacques Ribout
- North Shore Tribal Council – Rachelle Lambert
- Member-at-large – Melanie Ross
- Special Education Coordinator – Rosanne Zagordo
- Board of Trustees – John Caputo
- Autism Ontario _ Irma DiRenzo
- Easter Seals Ontario – Tiana Rushon
- THRIVE Child Development Centre – Tina Coombs
SEAC Meetings
All meetings will offer the hybrid attendance option.
You can attend at the board room of the Mount St. Joseph Catholic Education Centre.
Meetings may take place at alternative sites.
To join the meeting virtually, click here.
Archived Minutes
June 7 – 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Organizations
- Community Care Access Centre
- Algoma Family Services
- Community Living Ontario
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Children’s Rehabilitation Centre Algoma
- THRIVE Child Development
- Autism Ontario
- Canadian Mental Health Assc. – SSM
- Community Living Algoma
- Algoma Public Health Unit
- Easter Seals Society – SSM
- NECCAC
- Canadian Hearing Society – SSM
- Aspergers Society of Ontario
- Brain Injury Association – SSM & Dist.
- Canadian Hearing Society
- Closing The Gap
- Geneva Centre
- Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy
- National Down Syndrome Society
- Special Needs Ontario
- Learning Disabilities Assoc. Ontario
- Association for Bright Children
- Canadian Down Syndrome Society
- C.N.I.B.
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Selective Mutism
- VOICE for Hearing Impaired Children
100 Ontario Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6B 1E3
P: 705-945-5400 • TF: 1-800-267-0754 • F: 705-945-5575 • frontdesk@hscdsb.on.ca