The speech and language program at Gideon Welles School provides individualized services to students as specified by an Individualized Educational Program, or IEP. Speech and language is under the umbrella of "Special Education," and requires an evaluation by a speech-language pathologist prior to enrollment.



Students at Gideon Welles School are scheduled for services in conjunction with special education staff. Special care is taken to allow for needed time in resource room, if applicable, and other classes. Students are frequently grouped with others from the same core, as the schedule allows. Grouping allows interactive language skills to be practiced in a supportive setting.

Mrs. Tyczkowski also goes into classrooms for collaboration with teachers.  Activities within the speech room are connected to the curriculum as much as possible, to ensure optimal inclusion. 


Goals in speech and language may be written for areas such as: fluency; apraxia of speech; practical or pragmatic language skills, such as social language; semantics, or word meanings; grammar and sentence structure; inferential language skills such as humor and problem solving; and strategies for recalling curriculum information, such as in study skills.



Mrs. Tyczkowski is in room 210A, at the top of the front stairwell.



How do you pronounce Mrs. Tyczkowski's name? It looks harder than it is! There are three syllables: "Tie"+"cow"+"ski." Try it! :)





Mrs. Tyczkowski also teaches the after-school program, "Knowledgeable Knitters." This program is typically on Wednesday afternoons. Knitters in this program complete a charity knitting project, usually a blanket for "Project Linus." Please see Mrs. Tyczkowski if you are interested in joining this after-school program.  All Gideon Welles students are welcome!