Policy – Category 5000 (Students) BP 5005 – Supports and Services
programs on a regular basis to determine whether a disproportionate representation of any one ethnicity exists. Specialized instruction within the continuum of program options is supported with staff development activities including disability awareness training, classroom visitations, and appropriately developed curricular programs. DMCS and Charter LEA support encourages successful student transition toward the least restrictive environment (LRE). The extent of placement within the LRE is regularly reviewed by the DMCS. It is the DMCS’s expressed intent that all children be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with their nondisabled peers, and special classes or removal of children with disabilities from the general educational environment shall only occur if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily. In summary, children are placed in settings based on the needs set forth in their IEP and not solely on the disabling condition, configuration of services, availability of staff, or administrative expediency. 3.0 Related Services
California Education Code § 56363(a). As used in this part, the term “designated instruction and services” means “related services” as that term is defined in Section 1401(26) of Title 20 of the United States Code and Section 300.34 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The term “related services” means transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech-language pathology and audiology services, interpreting services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, including therapeutic recreation, social work services, school nurse services designed to enable an individual with exceptional needs to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child, counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling, orientation, and mobility services, and medical services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist an individual with exceptional needs to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of disabling conditions in children.
California Education Code § 56363(b). These services may include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Desert Mountain Charter Special Education Local Plan Area (DMCS) (rev. 10/19)
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