Special Education

Special Education is specially designed instruction, offered to students with a disability at no cost to parents, to meet a student’s unique needs.  Special Education serves students with a disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).  A child between the ages of 3-21 with a disability including an:

• intellectual disability    
• visual impairment        
• speech/language impairment
• emotional disturbance  
• autism 
• hearing impairment      
• specific learning disability
• multiple disabilities
• other health impairment
• traumatic brain injury
  and/or
• orthopedic impairment
• deaf-blind
• Non-Categorical Early Childhood

who, as a result, requires specially designed instruction to benefit from the general education curriculum.