What is Child Find?
Child Find is the process of identifying, locating and evaluating children with disabilities who may be in need of special education and related services.
Why is there Child Find?
Both state and local educational agencies are given the responsibility by federal and state laws to conduct child find activities so that children who need special services have the opportunity to receive those services.
What is the purpose of Child Find?
To promote public awareness of disabilities. To alert parents, professionals, and the public to children who may have special needs. To assist school districts in finding children who may have disabilities and who otherwise may not have come to the district’s attention. To enable children and families to receive the special education and related services that they need.
What is a disability?
For ages Birth to 3 – An established condition known to result in delay, or a documented developmental delay. For ages 3 to 5 – A documented deficit in one of more of the following developmental areas: communication, vision, hearing, motor skills, social emotional/behavioral functioning, self-help skills, and/or cognitive skills. For ages 5 through 21 – Identification of one or more of the following conditions: autism, deaf-blindness, hearing impairment including deafness, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, emotional disturbance, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, and/or visual impairment including blindness.
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