Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 10 - Education and Culture › 295 - Program for Deaf-Blind Adults › Children's Services › Section 10-295-5 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The definitions provided in Section
				10-294a
				of the General Statutes shall govern the interpretation and application of
				Sections
				10-295-4
				to
				10-295-25.
(b) In addition thereto, and except as
				otherwise required by context, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Agency" or "BESB" refers to the Board of
				Education and Services for the Blind of the State of Connecticut as authorized
				in Chapter 174 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(2) "BESB TVI" refers to a Teacher of the
				Visually Impaired who is employed by the Board of Education and Services for
				the Blind and holds the title Education Consultant or any related or successor
				title.
(3) "Birth-to-Three System"
				refers to the state of Connecticut program which operates under the
				requirements of Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and
				assists and strengthens the capacity of families to meet the developmental and
				health-related needs of infants and toddlers who have delays or
				disabilities.
(4) "Blind" or
				"Legally Blind" refers to "legally blind" as defined in section
				10-294a
				of the general statutes. The terms "blind" and "legally blind" are
				interchangeable for the purposes of these regulations.
(5) "Children's Services Division" refers to
				that division of the Board of Education and Services for the Blind which
				provides services to children who are blind, deaf-blind and visually
				impaired.
(6) "Children's Services
				Supervisor" refers to that BESB employee who has been designated by the
				Executive Director to supervise all education professionals employed by the
				agency to serve children.
(7)
				"Deaf-blind" refers to having combined vision and hearing losses which
				challenge a person's ability to communicate and interact with others, to access
				information and to move about safely.
(8) "Director" refers to the Executive
				Director of the Board of Education and Services for the Blind or the Director's
				designee.
(9) "Education Plan"
				refers to any of the following: an Individualized Education Program (IEP), an
				Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP), a Section 504 Accommodation Plan and
				a Services Plan.
(10) "Expanded
				Core Curriculum" or "ECC" refers to a curriculum of instruction that
				encompasses the knowledge and skills that are needed by students with legal
				blindness or visual impairment in addition to a traditional academic core
				curriculum. The ECC includes orientation and mobility, social interaction
				skills, independent living skills, recreation and leisure skills, career
				education, use of assistive technology, sensory efficiency skills,
				self-determination and compensatory or functional academic skills, including
				communication modes.
(11) "IEP"
				refers to an Individualized Education Plan or Program developed in accordance
				with the requirements of Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
				Act and state special education requirements.
(12) "IFSP" refers to an Individualized
				Family Service Plan developed in accordance with Part C of the Individuals with
				Disabilities Education Act.
(13)
				"Guardian" refers to a person having the authority and obligations as defined
				in Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec.
				45a-604(5) and
				(6).
(14) "Learning Media Assessment" refers to an
				assessment tool used by the Teacher of the Visually Impaired to assist in
				identifying the best learning and literacy media for a student including print,
				Braille, audio, objects or any combination thereof.
(15) "Local TVI" refers to a Teacher of the
				Visually Impaired who is employed by or contracted by a Local Education Agency
				or LEA.
(16) "Local Education
				Agency" or "LEA" refers to a public board of education or other public
				authority legally constituted within Connecticut for either administrative
				control or direction of or to perform a service function for public elementary
				schools or secondary schools in a town, city, school district or other
				political subdivision of the state or for such combination of towns, cities or
				school districts as are recognized in Connecticut as an administrative agency
				for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
(17) "Parent" refers to a person who stands
				in relation to a child as defined in Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec.
				45a-604(1)-(3).
(18) "Professional Staff" refers to Teachers
				of the Visually Impaired, Education Consultants, Rehabilitation Technologists,
				Rehabilitation Teachers, Educational Projects Coordinators, Orientation and
				Mobility Teachers, Education Consultants-Mobility and any other related or
				successor titles that address the education or Expanded Core Curriculum of
				children who are blind or visually impaired.
(19) "Reading Rate Assessment" refers to an
				assessment administered and used by the Teacher of the Visually Impaired to
				track the rate, accuracy and fluency of a student's reading skills.
(20) "Section 504 Accommodation Plan" or
				"Section 504 Plan" refers to a plan for a child who does not have a learning
				disability but who has a disability which requires accommodation in the
				educational setting.
(21) "Services
				Plan" refers to a written statement that describes the special education and
				related services an LEA will provide to a parentally placed private school
				child with a disability.
(22)
				"Support Staff" refers to Quality Control Reviewers, Administrative Assistants,
				Office Assistants, Secretaries, Clerks, Clerk-Typists, Special Assistants to
				the Blind and any other related or successor titles for those job
				classifications that assist educational professionals in the execution of their
				duties and assignments.
(23) "TVI,"
				"Teacher of the Visually Impaired," or "Teacher of Students with Visual
				Impairments" refers to a person who is certified under Connecticut State
				Department of Education guidelines to instruct students with legal blindness
				and visual impairment and is employed for the purpose of providing such special
				services and instruction.
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