Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE)
Clackamas ESD delivers Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education (EI/ECSE) support to young children who exhibit delays or disabilities that affect learning. We coordinate services, and provide specialized consultation and instruction at no cost to families. We work hard to fully include children with disabilities in their communities and prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to learn, providing our services in local preschools, child care centers and homes.
Services
Services we provide include home visiting, consultation in early learning settings such as community preschools, specialized preschool classes, parenting education, and related services. This program is free for eligible families.
Referral
Anyone can refer a child for a screening or evaluation. Please complete one of the referral forms below or contact us via the Intake/Referral contact information at the bottom of this page. Or, you can drop by one of our upcoming free screening events in your community.
English
Español
Free Screening Tool
Oregon Screening Project is a free and confidential developmental screening for children ages 0-6 may be completed online. Also available in Spanish.
Resources
Program Contacts
Intake & Referrals
Records Requests
Administrative Assistants
Program Supervisors
Program Coordinators
Program Director
Early Learning News
Clackamas Early Learning Center set to open in late summer 2024
This fall, Clackamas Education Service District will open a new facility devoted to the needs of Clackamas County's youngest learners and their families. The Clackamas Early Learning Center is on schedule to open in August. Through an extensive renovation, we’re turning a former health services clinic into a new facility [...]
Local libraries a key link to early learning services
Morning story time has just ended at the Gladstone Public Library, and an 18-month-old girl has made her way into an adjacent book-filled room with her mom. “Do you want to sit at the table and draw lines?” a friendly young woman asks. That question is all it takes to [...]
Staff spotlight: Mirla Cobb, enrollment and recruitment specialist
The first full week of March is designated as Classified Employee Appreciation Week. At Clackamas ESD alone, we have more than 60 types of classified jobs. These are people who touch every corner of our agency’s work and the districts we support, from providing hands-on help to teachers, children and families, to [...]