Enrollment & Child Find
What is Child Find?
Child Find is the process of locating, identifying and evaluating children with disabilities that may be in need of special education or related services.
What is the purpose of Child Find?
To alert parents, professionals and the public to students who may have special needs.
To guarantee that school districts find children who may have disabilities and who otherwise may not have come to their attention.
To enable eligible children to receive the special education and related services that are needed.
To promote public awareness of disabilities.
What is a disability?
A physical or mental condition for children ages birth to 3 that may result in a developmental delay requiring special education and related services. For children ages 3 through 5 - A child who is experiencing a delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication development; social or emotional development; or adaptive development; or, a child who is identified with any of the conditions listed in the paragraph below.
For children ages 5 through 21 - Identification of one or more of the following conditions: autism, deafblindness, hearing impairment including deafness, cognitive disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, and/or visual impairment.
How can you help?
If you are aware of a child who may have special needs, please notify his/her school district. Parents, relatives, public and private agency employees, childcare providers, physicians and concerned citizens are encouraged to help school districts find any child, ages birth — 21, who may have a disability and are in need of special education and related services.
What happens next?
A physical or mental condition for children ages birth to 3 that may result in a developmental delay requiring special education and related services. For children ages 3 through 5 - A child who is experiencing a delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication development; social or emotional development; or adaptive development; or, a child who is identified with any of the conditions listed in the paragraph below.
For children ages 5 through 21 - Identification of one or more of the following conditions: autism, deafblindness, hearing impairment including deafness, cognitive disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, and/or visual impairment.
Who can you contact?
If you have a child ages 3-5 years of age and have concerns about a suspected disability, please contact the Preschool Office at 419-946-5736 ext 3142.