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Adena Local
Schools
Special Education
Mary Mace Miller, Coordinator
General
Information
Students with
Disabilities
The Federal
government, through legislation entitled Individual with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
states that a child with a disability means a school age child
who has been evaluated and determined to have one of the
following disabilities that adversely affects the child’s
educational performance and who therefore needs special
education and related services. The disabilities include a
cognitive disability, a hearing impairment including deafness, a
speech or language impairment, a visual impairment including
blindness, an emotion disturbance, an orthopedic, autism, a
traumatic brain injury, and a specific learning disability,
other health impairment, deaf-blindness, or multiple
disabilities.
The law also
requires public schools to provide services to preschool age
students with disabilities if they are at least three years of
age and not six. They must have a disability demonstrated by a
documented deficit in one or more areas of development
(communication, motor, social and emotion or other areas), which
has an adverse effect upon the normal development and
functioning.
Services for
Students with Disabilities
Evaluation team
uses information gathered to determine eligibility for services.
The evaluation team report contains all the assessments and
information used to determine the disability. If a student is
identified as a student with a disability, the IEP team writes
an Individual Education Plan (IEP). The team consists of
parents, teachers, administrator, and other service providers.
The IEP documents the student’s needs and goal and objectives
that address those needs. The IEP also documents where the goals
and objective will be taught. This is called the Least
Restrictive Environment and could involve a variety of
placements.
Related Services
Relate Services
are support services needed to help children with disabilities
benefit from special education. The IEP team identifies related
services during the writing of the IEP. Related services do not
stand-alone. In other words, a student who only requires related
services is not considered a student with a disability. The
following are all related services: attendant services,
audiology, counseling, guide services, interpreter services,
medical services, occupational services, orientation and
mobility services, physical therapy, reader services, speech and
language pathology services, transportation and more.
Your first
step is to contact the Adena Schools District
Contact information:
Mary Mace Miller, Coordinator 998-5293
Lee Snyder, Elementary Principal 998-5293
Craig Kerns, High/Middle School Principal 998-2313
Resources for
Parents
A booklet “Whose
IDEA is this: A Resource Guide for Parents” may be obtained from
Mary Mace Miller or from your child’s Principal.
IDEA
Booklet
The Pilasco-Ross
Special Education Resource Center serves Pike, Lawrence, Scioto,
Ross county schools, educators and parents in meeting the needs
of students with disabilities through no cost student
evaluations in specific areas, staff and parent in-services,
materials, equipment and consultative services.
The Ohio
Department of Education provides many resources through their
website:
www.ode.state.oh.us
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