Kids with disabilities

The Kettering City School District is in the process of locating, evaluating, and identifying youth up to age 21with disabilities who may be in need of special education and related services.

For infants and toddlers, according to the school district, a disability means that a child has a delay in one or more of several areas. They include adaptive behavior, cognition, communication, physical development, vision, hearing, and/or social-emotional functioning.

For preschoolers and schoolage children, a disability means having one or more conditions defined by federal regulations and state standards, the school district’s website states.

These disabilities include: autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment (including blindness), and developmental delay (preschoolers only), according to the school district.

Those who know a child who may have a disability, are asked to call the office of special education at 937-499-1435.

The school district will contact the parents of the child to discuss the next steps in the evaluation and identification process, the district’s website states.

This process is provided at no cost to the family.