Disabilities & Services
Disability Conditions
Federal and state rules and regulations define the following disability conditions for the purposes of special education:
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Autism
- Deaf-Blindness
- Developmental Delay
- Emotional Disability
- Intellectual Disability
- Multiple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability including dyslexia and related disorders. Click here for additional information about dyslexia
- Speech or Language Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
Services
Eligible students' programs of services are determined by their Admission, Review, and Dismissal Committees. Students' programs of services are individualized; there is not a one-size-fits-all program. The list below includes - but is not limited to - various services students might receive.
- Accommodations - Intended to reduce or even eliminate the effects of student’s disability but do not reduce learning expectations
- Modifications - Practices and procedures that alter the learning expectations by changing the nature of the task or target skill.
- Speech therapy
- Behavior intervention
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Psychological services/counseling
- Orientation & mobility training
- Audiology
- Parent training
- In-home training
- Adapted physical education
- Assistive technology
- Special transportation
- Transition services - Focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the child with a disability to facilitate the child's movement from school to post-school activities