Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Definition. Gifted children and youth are students who demonstrate abilities that give evidence of high performance in academic and intellectual aptitude. B. Procedures for Screening 1. Sensory screening shall be conducted whenever vision or hearing problems are suspected. 2. …

A. Definition. Assistive technology services means any service that directly assists a student with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology device. Included in these services are the following: 1. an evaluation of the needs of a student with …

A. When a reevaluation is conducted, an appropriate evaluation coordinator will be assigned. The evaluation coordinator or other designated personnel will notify parents, teachers, related service personnel, an official designee of the LEA, and other appropriate personnel of the …

A. Definition. Deaf and/or Hard of Hearing - a loss of hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a student's educational performance. It includes deafness, which is a hearing disability that is so severe that the student is disabled in processing linguisti…

A. Definition. Traumatic Brain Injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a student's educational performance. The term applies …

A. Definition. Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness, orthopedic impairment-deafness, autism-orthopedic impairment, or emotional disturbance intellectual disability), the combination of which causes such severe educational …

A. Definition. Speech or Language Impairment means a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a student's educational performance. (Dialectal variations alone do not qualify a student to be…

A. Upon receipt of informed parental consent for the evaluation, the evaluation coordinator shall ensure that at least two appropriate and qualified personnel representing different disciplines participate in the individual evaluation (one of whom shall be the evaluation coordina…

A. Definition. Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to…

A. Definition. Other Health Impairment means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment that is due to chronic or acute health problems, a…

A. A referral for an individual evaluation should be made when the provisions in Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Subsection have been met. 1. The SBLC provides documentation that the RTI process addressing academic and/or behavior concerns, or the speech or language intervention(s)…

A. Throughout the initial evaluation of a student, the evaluation coordinator shall ensure that specific procedures are followed. 1. Each individual evaluation is based on a comprehensive compilation of information drawn from a variety of sources. 2. The evaluation is conducted i…

A. Definition. Adapted Physical Education is a direct instructional service for school aged students with disabilities who may not safely or successfully engage in unrestricted participation in the vigorous activities of the regular physical education program on a full-time basis…

A. The initial evaluation must be conducted within 60 business days of receiving parental consent for the evaluation with appropriate extensions as described below: 1. End of the Year Extension. If the LEA begins an evaluation and there are fewer than 60 business days remaining i…

A. Definition. Emotional Disturbance means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a student's educational performance: (Emotional disturbance includes schizophrenia. The term doe…

A. Special services as used in this chapter are included in the term special education, which means specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a student with a disability, including instruction conducted in the classroom, in the home, i…

A. Definition. Intellectual disability means significantly sub average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a student's educational performance. 1. In every…

A. The School Building Level Committee (SBLC) is a general education, data driven, decision-making committee whose standing members consist of at least the principal/designee, a classroom teacher, and the referring teacher. In discussing an individual student's difficulties, the …

A. Definition. Orthopedic Impairment means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a student's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc.); and impa…

A. The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is a three-tiered approach to providing services and interventions to struggling learners and/or students with challenging behaviors at increasing levels of intensity. Essential components of the process include three tiers of instruc…

A. Related services means transportation and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services as are required to assist a student with an exceptionality to benefit from special educational services. Related services include speech/language pathology and audiological …

A. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1941 et seq., require that a student suspected of being exceptional receive a comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation conducted by qualified examiners. Qualified examiners include pupil…

A. Special Rule for Eligibility Determination 1. A student shall not be determined to be a student with a disability if the determinant factor for that eligibility determination is: a. lack of appropriate explicit and systematic instruction in reading, including the essential com…

A. Definition. Orientation and Mobility means services provided to blind or visually impaired students by a university or agency trained and certified professional to enable those students to attain systematic orientation to and safe movement within their environment in school, h…

A. Definition. Speech/Language Pathology Services include: 1. identification of students with speech or language impairments; 2. diagnosis and appraisal of specific speech or language impairments; 3. referral for medical or other professional attention necessary for the habilitat…

A. Definition. School Health and School Nurse Services are specially designed for a student who has a disability (defined under federal and state statutes), having a special health need, and who is unable to participate in his or her educational program without the use of such he…

A. Definition. Physical Therapy includes the following services: 1. evaluating students with disabilities by performing and interpreting tests and measurements and/or clinical observations of neurophysiological, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and sensorimotor funct…

A. Definition. School Psychological Services include but are not limited to: 1. administering psychological and educational tests, and other assessment procedures; 2. interpreting assessment results; 3. obtaining, integrating, and interpreting information about student behavior a…

A. Definition. Deaf-Blindness is concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for students with deafness…

A. Participation by parents is crucial in all meetings in which decisions are being made regarding their child. Parents must be informed about the process used to assess their child's response to scientifically research-based interventions, appropriate strategies for improved ach…

A. All initial evaluations shall include the following documented components (refer to individual exceptionalities for additional evaluation components): 1. a description of each screening activity and a review of the screening results; 2. a review of cumulative records including…

A. Evaluation Coordinator 1. Upon identification of a student suspected of being exceptional, a qualified pupil appraisal staff member shall be designated as evaluation coordinator. 2. While this assignment is the responsibility of the individual designated by the LEA to direct t…

A. Definition. Autism (Autism Spectrum Disorders) means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction; generally evident before age three that adversely affects a student's educational performance. Other characteristi…

A. The parents of a student with a disability or an exceptionality have a right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) of the student as described in Chapter 5 of Bulletin 1706. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CI-517 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Sec…

A. Definition. Developmental Delay is a disability in which students/children, ages three through eight, are identified as experiencing developmental delays in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or em…

A. Definition. Social Work Services in schools include but are not limited to: 1. preparing a social or developmental history on a student with a disability; 2. providing group and individual counseling with the student and the family. (This may include linking them to community …

A. Overview 1. An LEA shall identify a student, enrolled in an educational program operated by the LEA, as suspected of having a disability only after the student has participated in an RTI process that produces data sufficient for the SBLC to recommend that a comprehensive indiv…

A. This handbook is the regulatory guide for pupil appraisal personnel when conducting individual evaluations of students suspected of being exceptional and in need of special education and related services, and as a reference for persons requiring specific information regarding …

A. A comprehensive initial evaluation must be conducted before the initial provision of special education and related services to a student. Either a parent of a student or a public agency may initiate a request for an initial evaluation to determine if the student has an excepti…

A. A reevaluation of each student with an exceptionality must be conducted when one of the following events occurs: 1. when the LEA determines that the educational or related services needs, including improved academic achievement and functional performance of the student, warran…

A. General Information 1. The Local Educational Agency (LEA) shall ensure that: a. all students with exceptionalities residing in the district, including students with exceptionalities who are homeless children or who are wards of the state, and students with exceptionalities att…

A. Pupil appraisal services comprise an integral part of the total instructional program of the LEA. The purpose of pupil appraisal services is to assist students who have academic, behavioral, and/or communication challenges, adjustment difficulties, or other special needs which…

A. In conducting the evaluation, each LEA shall: 1. use a variety of assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant functional, developmental, and academic information about the student, including information provided by the parent that may assist in determining: a. whether t…

A. Grade Band: K-5. By the end of fifth grade, students will: 1. Compare and contrast ways to store data using technology. 2. Explain how to save and name data, search for data, retrieve data, modify data, and delete data using a computing device. B. Grade Band: 6-8. By the end o…

A. Grade Band: K-5. By the end of fifth grade, students will: 1. Organize and present data visually in at least three ways to highlight relationships and evaluate a claim. 2. Evaluate data quality and clean data when indicated using the criteria of validity, accuracy, completenes…

A. Grade Band: K-5. By the end of fifth grade, students will: 1. Create clearly named variable representing different data types and perform operations on the variables' values. 2. Create, use, and apply an algorithm to complete a task. Compare the results of algorithm usage tria…

A. Grade Band: K-5. By the end of fifth grade, students will: 1. Describe the safe versus unsafe uses of computing systems at age-appropriate levels. 2. Explain how the school and school system's computing rules and policies keep students safe. 3. Explain how online actions have …