Special Education

Special Education Department Staff

Jennifer Dunson - Director of Special Programs

Karen Dunbar - Assistant to the Director

Shawn Jurik - Special Programs Records Administrator

Student Handbook Statement - English

Student Handbook Statement - Spanish

Notice of Procedural Safeguards - English

Notice of Procedural Safeguards - Spanish

Parent's Guide to the ARD process - English

Parent's Guide to the ARD process - Spanish

Special Education Information Center

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Who Is Eligible?

To receive special education services, students with disabilities must be at least three years old but under twenty-two years old. Hearing-impaired and visually impaired students may receive these services from birth and as long as they have not reached their twenty-second birthday by September 1 of the year of enrollment.

In order for a child to qualify for special education services, they must be found to have one of the 13 categories of special education and it must adversely affect their educational performance.

Autism
Blindness
Deafness
Emotional Disturbance
Hearing Impairment
Intellectually Challenged
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopedic Impairment
Other Health Impaired
Specific Learning Disability
Speech or Language Impairment
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairment

Students who are eligible for special education and related services are provided these services as determined by the Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) Committee and detailed in the Individual Education Plan (IEP).