Steps to Protect a Child's Right to Special Education: Procedural Safeguards

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Every child has the right to a free, appropriate, public education.

Special Services programs include a variety of academic instructional alternatives and related services such as school psychologist, speech, language, and hearing services, health services, physical and occupational therapy, and special education transportation.

Additional services include early assessment and indentification, guidance services, elementary gifted and talented program, remedial reading, remedial math, and homebound instruction.

A student indentified as a possible candidate for Special Services in the Ledyard Public School system is referred to a child study team and, if appropriate, to a multi-disciplinary team, or to a Planning and Placement Team.

With parental permission, the team determines the student's special needs and develops an appropriate individualized program in the least restrictive environment.

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