FOX CH APE L AR EA SC H OO L NE WS
Section 504 – Chapter 15
If you believe that your school-age child may be in need of
special education services and related programs, or your child
(ages three to school age) may be in need of early intervention,
screening and evaluation processes designed to assess the need
of the child and his/her eligibility are available to you at no cost,
upon written request. You may request screening and evaluation
at anytime, whether or not your child is enrolled in the district’s
public school program. Requests for school-age evaluations
and screenings are to made be in writing to: Special Education
Department, Fox Chapel Area School District, 611 Field Club
Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Requests for children ages three
to school age should be made in writing to: Project DART,
Allegheny Intermediate Unit, 475 East Waterfront Drive,
Homestead, PA 15120.
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academic functioning, observation of the student displaying
difficulty in behavior, and determining the student’s response
to attempted remediation. Input from parents is also an
information source of identification. If your child is identified
by the district as possibly in need of such services, you will
be notified of applicable procedures. Individualized services
and programs are available for children who are determined
to need specially designed instruction due to the following
conditions: autism/pervasive development disorder, blindness
or visual impairment, deafness or hearing impairment, deaf
blindness, orthopedic impairment, developmental delay,
multiple disabilities, traumatic brain injury, other health
impairment, emotional disturbance, specific learning disability,
and/or speech or language impairment. We offer a continuum
of services for students with disabilities that begins with full
inclusion in the child’s home school and class to separate
programs within other schools in which peers without
disabilities would not participate.
In compliance with state law, services designed to meet the
unique needs of gifted students are provided. Students are
identified individually based on state law and district policy, and
those students who possess superior intelligence scores or meet
multiple criteria indicating gifted ability may receive services.
If you believe that your school-age child may be eligible for
gifted services, screening and evaluation processes designed to
assess his/her eligibility are available to you at no cost, upon
written request. You may request screening and evaluation at
any time, whether or not your child is enrolled in the district’s
public school program. Requests for evaluation and screening
are to be made in writing to: Pupil Services Department, Fox
Chapel Area School District, 611 Field Club Road, Pittsburgh,
PA 15238.
Potential Signs of Developmental Delays and Other Risk Factors
that Could Indicate a Need for Special Education Services
Confidentiality
Some indications that your child may be a child with a disability
who is in need of special education are:
• Exhibition of an emotional disturbance over a long period of
time which affects your child’s ability to learn;
• Consistent problems in getting along with others;
• Difficulty communicating;
• Lack of interest or ability in age-appropriate activities;
• Resistance to change;
• Difficulty seeing or hearing that interferes with the ability to
communicate;
• Health problems that affect educational performance
including attention problems;
• Difficulty performing tasks that require reading, writing, or
mathematics; and
• When, a child who is at least three years of age but before
he or she has started school as a beginner, scores on a
developmental assessment device, on an assessment
instrument which yields a score in months, which score
indicates that the child is delayed by 25 percent of the child’s
chronological age in one or more developmental areas, or
if the child is delayed in one or more of the developmental
areas, as documented by tests performance of 1.5 standard
deviations below the mean on standardized tests.
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In compliance with state and federal law, the school district
will provide to each protected handicapped student, without
discrimination or cost to the student or family, those related
aids, services, or accommodations which are needed to
provide equal opportunity to participate in and obtain the
benefits of the school program and extracurricular activities
without discrimination. A protected handicapped student
must be school age with a physical or mental disability which
substantially limits or prohibits participation in or access to an
aspect of the school program. You may request screening and
evaluation of Chapter 15 services at any time, whether or not
your child is enrolled in the district’s public school program.
Requests for evaluation and screening are to be made in writing
to: Pupil Services Department, Fox Chapel Area School
District, 611 Field Club Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238.
Gifted Education – Chapter 16
All information gathered about your child is subject to the
confidentiality provisions contained in federal and state law.
The district has policies and procedures in effect governing the
collection, maintenance, destruction,
and disclosure to third parties of
this information. For information
about this, as well as the rights
of confidentiality and access to
educational records, you may
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