District to honor retiring leader

The Los Altos School District will honor Superintendent Marge Gratiot next month for 36 years of service, from teaching kindergarten to heading the top-ranked K-8 district in the state.

The celebration is scheduled for 4-7 p.m., May 12, at the Los Altos Golf & Country Club, 1560 Country Club Drive. Reservations must be made by April 28. Tickets are $35 per person.

Checks should be made payable to the Los Altos School District and mailed to Janie Boscacci, Superintendent’s Office, Los Altos School District, 201 Covington Road, Los Altos CA 94024.

For more information, call Boscacci at 947-1152.

Occupational, speech therapists to speak

A two-speaker SELPA 1 CAC parent education event is scheduled for 8:45-11 a.m., May 25, in the multipurpose room at Covington Elementary School, 205 Covington Road, Los Altos.

Melanee Murphree, a pediatric occupational therapist, will discuss federal regulations for occupational therapy, differences between private and public school occupational therapy, and ways to deal with sensory processing and with alerting and arousal levels in children.

Dawn Ferrer, a speech pathologist specializing in early intervention and autism, will define and discuss central auditory processing disorders and the way they appear at different ages. She will also give parents therapeutic strategies to use at home and at school.

For more information about the SELPA 1 CAC and its events, contact Karen Mueller at 964-3689 or mueller4@ix.netcom.