Disability Category Assigned
|
Maximum
Number to be Served by School Level
|
Maximum
Number to be Served During Instructional Period
|
Age
Range per Instructional Period Shall Not Exceed
|
Elementary, Middle, JH
|
High School
|
Elementary, Middle, JH
|
High School
|
Cognitive Disabilities
|
16
|
24
|
12
|
16
|
60 months
|
Specific Learning
Disabilities
|
16
|
24
|
12
|
12
|
60 months
|
Hearing
Impairment/Visual Impairment/Orthopedic Impairment/Other Health Impairment
|
10
|
10
|
8
|
8
|
48 months
|
Emotional Disturbance*
|
12
|
12
|
10
|
10
|
48 months
|
Multiple
Disabilities**
|
8
|
8
|
(8)
|
(8)
|
60 months
|
Autism/Deaf-Blindness/Traumatic
Brain Injury**
|
6
|
6
|
6
|
6
|
60 months
|
Multiple Categories***
|
16
|
24
|
(16)
|
(24)
|
Not specified
|
* Requires
plan for classroom management and crisis intervention support. In the absence
of a plan, at least one full-time paraprofessional is required in each
special class.
|
** At
least one full-time paraprofessional is required in each special class.
|
*** Instructional
period ratio requirements for specific disability categories cannot be
exceeded for children served by teachers assigned to teach multiple
categories of children. For example, an elementary
intervention specialist could serve no more than 10 students with emotional
disturbance as part of the 16 children he/she would serve during an
instructional period.
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