[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45 Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR1308.17]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 1308_HEAD START PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ON SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart D_Health Services Performance Standards

 

Sec.  1308.17  Eligibility criteria: Other impairments.



    (a) The purposes of this classification, ``Other impairments,'' are:

    (1) To further coordination with LEAs and reduce problems of 

recordkeeping;

    (2) To assist parents in making the transition from Head Start to 

other placements; and

    (3) To assure that no child enrolled in Head Start is denied 

services which would be available to other preschool children who are 

considered to have disabilities in their State.

    (b) If the State Education Agency eligibility criteria for preschool 

children include an additional category which is appropriate for a Head 

Start child, children meeting the criteria for that category must 

receive services as children with disabilities in Head Start programs. 

Examples are ``preschool disabled,'' ``in need of special education,'' 

``educationally handicapped,'' and ``non-categorically handicapped.''

    (c) Children ages three to five, inclusive, who are experiencing 

developmental delays, as defined by their State and as measured by 

appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the 

following areas: physical development, cognitive development, 

communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive 

development, and who by reason thereof need special education and 

related services may receive services as children with disabilities in 

Head Start programs.

    (d) Children who are classified as deaf-blind, whose concomitant 

hearing and visual impairments cause such severe communication and other 

developmental problems that they cannot be accommodated in special 

education programs solely for deaf or blind children are eligible for 

services under this category.

    (e) Children classified as having multiple disabilities whose 

concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation and blindness), in 

combination, cause such severe educational problems that they cannot be 

accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the 

impairments are eligible for services under this category. The term does 

not include deaf-blind children, for recordkeeping purposes.



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