• About The ELC

    The Exceptional Learners' Collaborative (ELC) is a special education cooperative and joint agreement between four school districts in Vernon Hills (Lake County), Illinois. We represent Kildeer Countryside School District 96, Lincolnshire – Prairie View School District 103, Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, and the non-voting member district, Fox Lake Grade School District 114. The ELC serves eight elementary schools, four junior high/middle schools, and one high school, providing services to students with special needs, ages 3 through 22. Local communities served include Buffalo Grove, Kildeer, Long Grove, Lincolnshire, Riverwoods, Prairie View, Hawthorn Woods, Vernon Hills, Mundelein, Lake Zurich, Mettawa, Fox Lake, and Spring Grove.

    The three original member districts agreed that it was time to unify special education programs and create this new collaborative. The 2015-2016 school year was when the ELC provided quality special education services to students and staff within the three-member districts. Megan's dynamic District teams are proud and excited to continue this mission. 

    The Exceptional Learners Collaborative will ensure support for the entire continuum of services essential to providing exceptional services to our exceptional learners in Districts 96, 103, 125, and 114, including:

    • Related service supports for students with low incidence exceptionalities including Audiology, Hearing Itinerant, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Social Work, Speech and Language, Vision Itinerant, Psychological Services, and Mobility Services
    • Diagnostic Services, including Psychoeducational Assessments
    • Special Education services from Early Intervention through Transition
    • Early childhood assessment and screenings, including vision, audiological, psychological, gross, and fine motor, play skills, physical ability, pre-academic skills, sensory ability, social-emotional, problem-solving, and speech, and language
    • Assistive technology consultation
    • Professional development, training, and resources
    • Educational, curricular, and technology consultation and support