Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Chapter 51 - REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS › Section 92-51-010 - Qualifications of Special Education Personnel for Program Approval and Reimbursement

Current through June 17, 2024
010.01 School
				districts and approved cooperatives shall ensure that all personnel necessary
				to carry out this Chapter are appropriately and adequately prepared and trained
				including that those personnel have the content knowledge and skills to serve
				children with disabilities, subject to the requirements of Section 2122 of the
				Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
010.01A Instructional personnel shall hold
				valid Nebraska Department of Education certification, be endorsed in the
				assigned area. Instructional personnel may serve children with visual
				impairments and children with hearing impairments in a multicategorical program
				if the instructional personnel have attended training approved by the
				Department of Education or have received consultation from an individual
				endorsed in the area of visual hearing impairments. This section does not apply
				to individuals providing inservice.
010.01B Each person employed as a special
				education teacher who teaches elementary school, middle school, or secondary
				school shall be a teacher meeting IDEA 2004 criteria as defined in 92 NAC
				51-003.62.
010.01C School districts
				or approved cooperatives shall take measurable steps to recruit, hire, train,
				and retain teachers meeting IDEA 2004 criteria to provide special education and
				related services.
010.01C1 School districts
				and approved cooperatives shall make positive efforts to employ, and advance in
				employment, qualified individuals with disabilities in programs assisted under
				Part B of the IDEA.
010.01D Approvable endorsements for program
				approval and reimbursement shall include:
Categorical Assignment
NDE Approvable Endorsement
010.01D1
Adaptive Physical Education
Adaptive Physical Education
010.01D2
Autism
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and
								Independent Living Specialist
Special Education
Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration
								Specialist
Special Education Behavior Intervention
								Specialist
Speech-Language Pathologist
010.01D3
Emotional Disturbance
Special Education Behavior Intervention
								Specialist
Special Education
010.01D4
Deaf-Blindness
Special Education Visual Impairment
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and
								Independent Living Specialist
010.01D5
Diagnostic Services
School Psychologist Audiologist
Speech-Language Pathologist or any special
								education endorsement
010.01D6
Early Childhood Special Education in Home and
								Centerbased Programs for Children Birth-Age Five
Early Childhood plus any Special Education
Early Childhood Inclusive
Special Education Early Childhood
Special Education
Special Education Early Intervention
								Specialist
010.01D7
Hearing Impairments
Deaf or Hard of Hearing
010.01D8
Home (School Age) and Hospital (Birth to 21)
								Services
Any Teaching endorsement
010.01D9
Home-School Liaison
Any special education endorsement School
								Counselor
010.01D10
Intellectual Disability
Special Education
010.01D11
Multicategorical Programs
Instructional personnel serving students in a
								multicategorical program shall be considered to be endorsed in the assigned
								area if an endorsement is held in at least one of the disability categories
								served
010.01D12
Multiple Disabilities
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and
								Independent Living Specialist
010.01D13
Orthopedic Impairments
Special Education
010.01D14
Program Supervision
Administrative or Supervisory certificate and at
								least one Special Education endorsement or any Special Education Administrative
								or Supervisory certificate
010.01D15
Learning Disabilities
Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration
								Specialist
Special Education
010.01D16
Speech-Language Impairments
Speech-Language Pathologist
010.01D17
Substitute Teacher
Any Teaching certificate
010.01D18
Traumatic Brain Injury
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and
								Independent Living Specialist
Special Education
Special Education Behavior
Intervention Specialist
Speech-Language Pathologist
Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration
								Specialist
010.01D19
Visual Impairment
Special Education Visual Impairment
010.01D20
Work Study Program or Transition
								Program
Any special education endorsement School
								Counselor
Vocational Special Needs
Cooperative Education - Diversified
								Occupations
Secondary Transition Specialist