Welcome to Rice County Special Services Cooperative

Special Education Services:

RCSSC, and it's participating districts, offer a range of special education services based on an individual's need and in accordance with the participating districts' obligation to ensure a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). Special education and related services are available to resident children attending public, private and parochial schools who are identified as being educationally disabled in any of the following areas:

•  Autism

• Deaf/Blindness

• Developmental Delay (under the age of 9)

• Emotional Disorder

• Hearing Impairment and Deafness

• Intellectual Disability

• Multiple Disabilities

• Other Health Impairment

• Orthopedic Impairment

• Specific Learning Disability

• Speech or Language Impairment

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• Visual Impairment/Blind

Special education and related services are offered to eligible students starting on their third birthday and continuing to age 21. Services are provided within the local districts, through local school and State-sponsored programs, by contractual agreement with outside agences, and/or purchased services from neighboring districts/cooperatives/interlocals.