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Special Education

The Penn-Trafford School District provides a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) to exceptional learners. To qualify as an exceptional learner, the child must be of school age, in need of specially designed instruction and meet eligibility criteria for one or more of the following physical or mental disabilities, as indicated by Pennsylvania State regulation: Autism; Deafness; Deaf-Blindness; Emotional Disturbance; Hearing Impairment; Intellectual Disability; Multiple Disabilities; Orthopedic Impairment; Other Health Impairment; Specific Learning Disability; Speech or Language Impairment; Traumatic Brain Injury; and Visual Impairment including Blindness.
 
Penn-Trafford School District provides the following nine types of support:
The school district’s Special Education Plan is an action plan that describes the local Board of School Director’s commitment to ensure that a quality education will be provided to each of its students with a disability eligible for special education, over the upcoming three years. The content of the Special Education Plan describes the special education program and services that are provided within a school district and those special education programs and services which are accessed by the school district from outside the school district’s geographical boundaries.
 

A comprehensive Special Education Plan, which is part of Penn-Trafford School District’s strategic plan, is due to the Pennsylvania Department of Education on a three-year cycle. Please click the document below to review the proposed Special Education Plan. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dr. Kubistek, Director of Student Learning Supports at [email protected].