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Special Education Handbook
2012-2013 |
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I. FREE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION (FAPE)
The District ensures that a free appropriate public education (FAPE) is made available to all children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21, inclusive, in accordance with IDEA and the Operating Standards.
A. RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENT
If the District places a child with a disability in a public or private residential program deemed necessary to provide special education and related services to a child with a disability, the program, including non-medical care and room and board, is at no cost to the parents of the child.
B. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
The District makes assistive technology available if required as part of the child’s special education, related services or supplementary aids and services.
C. EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR (ESY) SERVICES
The District ensures that extended school year services are provided if a child’s individualized education program (IEP) team determines that the services are necessary for the provision of FAPE to the child. If a child is transitioning from Part C services, the District considers extended school year (ESY) services as part of the IEP process.
D. NONACADEMIC SERVICES
The District takes steps, including the provision of supplementary aids and services determined appropriate and necessary by the child’s IEP team, to provide nonacademic and extracurricular services and activities in the manner necessary to afford children with disabilities an equal opportunity for participation in those services and activities as provided to students without disabilities.
Nonacademic and extracurricular services and activities include counseling services, athletics, transportation, health services, recreational activities, special interest groups or clubs sponsored by the school district, referrals to agencies that provide assistance to individuals with disabilities and employment of students, including both employment by the school district and assistance in making outside employment available.
E. PROGRAM OPTIONS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION
The District takes steps to ensure that children with disabilities served by the District have available to them the variety of educational programs and children served by the school district, including art, music, industrial arts, consumer and homemaking education and vocational education.
The District ensures that a child with a disability receives appropriate physical education services. The District affords each child with a disability the opportunity to participate in a regular physical education program available to non-disabled children, unless the child is enrolled full time in a separate facility or needs specially designed physical education, as prescribed in the child’s IEP. The District provides a specially designed physical education program if prescribed by the IEP.
For preschool children, the District considers adapted physical education or related services, as appropriate, in conjunction with center-based or itinerant teacher services, and considers the factors set forth in 3301-51-11(F) of the Operating Standards.
F. TRANSPORTATION
The District provides, as a related service, transportation service in accordance with IDEA and the Operating Standards.
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