Special Education Codes are assigned based on specialized assessments completed by a qualified original. Schools must have the documentation to support the assignment of a special education code.
ECS Student with:
Mild or Moderate Intellectual (Cognitive) Disability
Mild/Moderate Emotional/Behavioural Disability
Receives support for behaviours that interfere with learning
Communication Disorder/Delay
Hearing Disability
Visual Disability
Physical or Medical Disability
Response
Mild/Moderate Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Educational Environment Impact Statement (EEIS)
ECS student with:
Severe Intellectual Disability
Dependent on others for all aspects of daily living
Adaptive behaviour skills are profound
Response
Mild/Moderate Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)
ECS student with:
Severe Language Delay
Delay in expressive, receptive or total language
Or severe phonological delay (below the 1st or 2nd percentile)
Response
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) Assessment/Report
Mild/Moderate Individual Program Plan (IPP)
ECS student with:
Moderate Language Delay
Delay in the 3rd - 6th percentile
Response
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) Assessment/Report
Mild/Moderate Individual Program Plan (IPP)
ECS to Gr 12 student with:
Severe Emotional/Behavioural Disability
Chromic, extreme, pervasive behaviours
Requires intensive support to function
Behaviours significantly interfere with learning of self and others
**Not for FASD or ADHD
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)
Educational Environment Impact Statement (EEIS) or School Functioning Form
Behaviour Tracking Summary
Access to Mental Health Supports
ECS to Gr 12 student with:
Severe Multiple Disability
Two or more non-associated moderate or severe cognitive and/or physical disabilities
Requires significant programming
Emotional/Behavioural Disabilities, LD (Gr 1-12 only) Speech/Language
ECS children with Down Syndrome
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
ECS to Gr 12 student with:
Severe Medical or Physical Disability
A medical diagnosis that impacts the ability to function and learn in an educational environment
Requires extensive adult assistance and modifications
ASD, FASD or ARND, Tourette Syndrome, Cerebral palsy, Brain Injury, Cancer, Selective Mutism, Social Comm Disorder
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)
Educational Environment Impact Statement (EEIS) or School Functioning Form
Behaviour Tracking Summary
ECS to Gr 12 student with:
Deafness
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
ECS to Gr 12 student with:
Blindness
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Mild Intellectual (Cognitive) Disability
Receives support for behaviours that interfere with learning
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Moderate Intellectual (Cognitive) Disability
Receives support for behaviours that interfere with learning
Programming reflects significant modifications to basic curriculum, literacy, numeracy and living/vocational skills
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Mild/Moderate Emotional/Behavioural Disability
Receives support for behaviours that interfere with learning
Response
Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Learning Disability
Reading, Oral Language, Written Language or Math
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Specific Skills Instruction
Accommodations
Compensatory Strategies
Self-Advocacy Skills
Executing Functioning Skills
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Hearing Disability
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Visual Disability
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Communication Disorder/Delay
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Mild/Moderate Physical or Medical Disability
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Gr 1 to Gr 12 student with:
Multiple Disabilities
Two or more non-associated mild/moderate disabilities
Response
Individual Program Plan (IPP)
Possible Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)