GMCS Board of Trustees Child Find Policy
In accordance with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s direction, Gettysburg Montessori Board of Trustees recognizes as follows:
The school will ensure that all students with disabilities who are eligible to enroll in the school will have available to them free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE). The rights of children with disabilities and their parents will be protected in accordance with federal laws.
As part of this child find responsibility the school seeks to ensure that all students with disabilities who are eligible to enroll in the school are identified and evaluated. This child find responsibility shall be accomplished through a process which, while not a definitive or final judgment of a student’s capabilities or disability, is a possible indicator of special education needs.
The child find process will incorporate Rtii once approved by the State. In addition, obtaining data on each student through direct assessment or by indirect means of the student’s academic performance, gross and fine motor skills, receptive and expressive language skills, vision, hearing and cognitive skills.
School staff, parents, or agency representatives may refer students to the director if they believe that the student, because of a disability, may be in need of special education and supportive services in order to benefit from regular education. The school shall ensure that an appropriately certified school psychologist participates in the initial evaluation and all subsequent re-evaluations of the student.
Final identification of students will disabilities and programming for such students occurs only after an appropriate evaluation and a determination by the team. If it is determined that the child requires special education and supportive services in order to benefit from regular education, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) shall be developed for the student in accordance with federal law. The school will ensure confidentiality of the activities and procedures used to evaluate students with disabilities.
You may initiate a referral through the school by contacting the special education director.
TO THE EXTENT THAT ANYTHING IN THIS POLICY COULD BE CONSTRUED TO CONFLICT
WITH APPLICABLE STATE AND/OR FEDERAL LAWS, THE APPLICABLE STATE AND/OR FEDERAL
LAWS CONTROL.
The school will ensure that all students with disabilities who are eligible to enroll in the school will have available to them free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE). The rights of children with disabilities and their parents will be protected in accordance with federal laws.
As part of this child find responsibility the school seeks to ensure that all students with disabilities who are eligible to enroll in the school are identified and evaluated. This child find responsibility shall be accomplished through a process which, while not a definitive or final judgment of a student’s capabilities or disability, is a possible indicator of special education needs.
The child find process will incorporate Rtii once approved by the State. In addition, obtaining data on each student through direct assessment or by indirect means of the student’s academic performance, gross and fine motor skills, receptive and expressive language skills, vision, hearing and cognitive skills.
School staff, parents, or agency representatives may refer students to the director if they believe that the student, because of a disability, may be in need of special education and supportive services in order to benefit from regular education. The school shall ensure that an appropriately certified school psychologist participates in the initial evaluation and all subsequent re-evaluations of the student.
Final identification of students will disabilities and programming for such students occurs only after an appropriate evaluation and a determination by the team. If it is determined that the child requires special education and supportive services in order to benefit from regular education, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) shall be developed for the student in accordance with federal law. The school will ensure confidentiality of the activities and procedures used to evaluate students with disabilities.
You may initiate a referral through the school by contacting the special education director.
TO THE EXTENT THAT ANYTHING IN THIS POLICY COULD BE CONSTRUED TO CONFLICT
WITH APPLICABLE STATE AND/OR FEDERAL LAWS, THE APPLICABLE STATE AND/OR FEDERAL
LAWS CONTROL.
