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SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Northville Public Schools provides a wide
range of Special Education Services for students
who have been identified through an Individual
Educational Planning Committee meeting as
qualifying for these services according to State
Special Education Rules.
The following are some of the programs provided
for resident students of the Northville Public
Schools:
• Learning Disability
• Speech and Language
• Cognitive Impairment
• Emotional Impairment
• Autistically Impaired
• Early Childhood Developmental Delay
Additionally, the following programs are
provided by the Northville Public Schools Center
Program for students within the Western Region
of Wayne County Intermediate School District, of
which Northville Public Schools is a member:
• Cognitive Impairment
• Severe Multiple Impairment
• Dual-Diagnosed (Cognitively / Emotionally
Impaired)
For some students, educational services are
provided in cooperation with another district
within the Western Region. This cooperative
effort enhances the services provided to
students with 'low incidence' disabilities.
These include programs for students with:
• Physical Impairment or Other Health Impairment
• Visual Impairment
• Hearing Impairment
• Early Childhood Developmental Delay
• Severe Emotional Impairment
• Autistically Impaired
Northville is proud to offer a diversified and
progressive Special Education Program for those
students who require this type of opportunity to
learn. Outstanding aspects are:
• Resource Room and Categorical Program at
Elementary, Middle School and High School levels
• A wide range of support programs are available
at the elementary level through the
Instructional Support Process
• Departmentalized High School and Middle School
Programs
• Social Work services and support at all levels
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Consultant
support at all levels
• Center Program Curriculum based on the needs
of students and written by staff
• Community Work Study Program
• In-service training for professional and
paraprofessional staff
• Parent Advisory Council
CHILD FIND
If you suspect your child has a disability
affecting his or her school performance, please
notify your child's teacher, counselor,
principal, or Lynne Mossoian, Special Services
Director at 248-344-8443.
A “Student With a Disability” is defined,
according to the Revised Administrative Rules
for Special Education (effective November,
2002), under the provisions of Public Act of
1971, as
"a person who is determined by an
individualized education program team or a
hearing officer to have one or more of the
impairments specified in this part (cognitive
impairment, emotional impairment, hearing
impairment, visual impairment, physical
impairment, other health impairment, speech and
language impairment, early childhood
developmental delay, specific learning
disability, severe multiple impairment, autism,
traumatic brain injury) that necessitates
special education or related services, or both,
who is not more than 25 years of age as of
September 1 of the school year of enrollment,
who has not completed a normal course of study,
and who has not graduated from high school. A
student who reaches the age of 26 years after
September 1 is a ‘student with a disability’ and
entitled to continue a special education program
or service until the end of the school year.”
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