DISABILITY SERVICES

     Children with disabilities receive all Head Start services. In addition, Head Start staff collaborate with community agencies and school districts to provide extra services to meet the special needs of children with disabilities.

We provide special services to enrolled children with one or more of these conditions:

• Blindness and visual impairments
• Deafness and hearing impairments
• Physical handicaps Speech impairment
• Health impairment
• Developmental delays
• Serious emotional disturbances
• Specific learning disabilities

We offer these services to children, with disabilities:

• Outreach and recruit
• Coordination with special education programs in their school district
• Inclusion offered as options in some districts
• Diagnostic and referral services
• Individual Family Service Plan
• Main streaming in classroom program
• Help with transition into school programs
• Resources for information and networking with other families of children with disabilities
• Head Start children with disabilities can be dually enrolled in Early Childhood Education (ECE) and At Risk programs(on an individual basis).

  

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