services and the appropriate provider. The Desert Mountain SELPA initiates all contracts for private services and is responsible for evaluating and monitoring those services to students and parents. Specific Provisions for Nursing Services SELPA policy specifies the appropriate use of nursing services for medically fragile students who meet appropriate criteria. Additional information is available in Chapter 20. Section C – Service Animals The Desert Mountain SELPA recognizes that animals can be an effective teaching aid, and that animals may perform vital service functions for individuals with disabilities. In addition, that instruction related to the care and treatment of animals teaches students a sense of responsibility and promotes the humane treatment of living creatures. The following information is designed to provide guidance regarding the use of guide dogs, signal dogs, and service dogs by students with disabilities enrolled in schools within the Desert Mountain SELPA region, as well as the use of such dogs by visitors and personnel on school property and at school-sponsored programs and activities. DEFINITIONS (a) Individual with a Disability: as defined by section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. (b) Guide Dog: defined by California Civil Code section 54.1 as any dog trained by an appropriately licensed person to assist an individual with a disability. (c) Signal Dog: defined by California Civil Code section 54.1 as any dog individually trained to alert an individual, who is deaf or hearing impaired, to intruders or sounds. (d) Service Dog: defined by California Civil Code section 54.1 as any dog individually trained to the requirements of the individual with a disability, including, but not limited to, minimal protection work, rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items. (e) User: an individual with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) above and persons authorized to train guide dogs, signal dogs, or service dogs for individuals with disabilities, consistent with California Civil Code sections 54.1 and 54.2. (f) Service Animal: defined by Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Examples of work or tasks performed by service animals include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are visually-impaired with navigation and other tasks, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, and helping individuals with psychiatric and neurological
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