[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
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 
 
             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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