Eligibility
To be eligible for special education a student must qualify under a two-pronged test of eligibility: the student must be found to be a student with a disability and they must demonstrate a need for specially designed instruction and/or related services.
To meet the first part of the two-pronged test for eligibility, a child between the ages of three through 21 must meet the criteria for one or more of the disability categories listed below:
- Auditory Impairment
- Autism
- Deaf/Blindness
- Emotional Disturbance
- Intellectual Disability
- Mulitple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Speech/Language
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
- Non-categorical Early Childhood
- Auditory Impairment
- Autism
- Deaf/Blindness
- Emotional Disturbance
- Intellectual Disability
- Mulitple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Speech/Language
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
- Non-categorical Early Childhood