Disabilities

     Head Start is often the least restrictive environment for pre-school age children. Children with disabilities can receive special services, while attending school with their same age peers. Head Start works closely with the Public School system to ensure that children will receive the services they need a variety of Head Start services are available to both children and their families with special needs. Heartland Head Start is an equal opportunity educational institution. No participant shall be discriminated against for any reason in recruitment, admissions, programs and or services.

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).

DISABILITIES CATEGORIES

1. Health Impairment
2. Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
3. Speech or Language Impairments
4. Mental Retardation
5. Hearing Impairments
6. Orthopedic Impairments
7. Visual Impairments
8. Learning Disabilities
9. Autism
10. Traumatic Brain Injury
11. Other Impairments

 

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