North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 16 - EDUCATION › Chapter 06 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Subchapter I - THE GOVERNER MOREHEAD SCHOOL › Section .0100 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES › Section 06I .0102 - ELIGIBILITY

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) School age
				  requirements for 5-21 years of age students:
(1) The prospective student's parents or
				  legal guardians must reside in the state of North Carolina.
(2) The prospective student must be between
				  the ages of 5 and 21.
(3) The
				  prospective student must have an educationally significant visual impairment:
(A) Blind - a student who after best
				  correction, has no usable vision and therefore must rely on tactile and
				  auditory senses to obtain information.
(B) Partially sighted - student who has a
				  visual acuity of 20/70 or less in the better eye corrected, has a peripheral
				  field that is restrictive to learning or who has a progressive vision loss
				  which will affect the student's ability to learn.
(C) Blind multihandicapped - a student who
				  has a visual impairment as defined in this Rule and a concomitant handicapping
				  condition or conditions.
(D)
				  Deaf-Blind - a student who has concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the
				  combination of which causes severe communication problems.
(4) The prospective student must demonstrate
				  a potential for educational progress during the initial evaluation process, in
				  the areas of:
(A) self-help skills such as
				  eating, dressing, assistive responses to bathing and toileting.
(B) adaptation to new environments such as
				  other children, teachers, support staff and dormitory staff as
				  appropriate.
(C) tolerance for
				  change from one setting to another such as classes, staff, support
				  services.
(D) modification of
				  undesirable or inappropriate behaviors.
(E) curiosity initiative in exploratory play,
				  willingness or acceptance of manipulation through gross and fine motor
				  activities.
(5) The
				  prospective student must be able to adjust socially and psychologically to the
				  residential environment and present no long-lasting deficits in adaptive
				  behavior that would interfere with either their or other student's educational
				  progress.
(6) The prospective
				  student must demonstrate at least the characteristics as outlined by the
				  American Association on Mental Deficiency for the Moderate, Mentally Retarded
				  including:
(A) schedule-trained in
				  toileting;
(B) accepts solid
				  foods;
(C) finger-feeds self and
				  cooperates in bathing, dressing and grooming;
(D) expresses his or her needs through
				  natural gestures, signs or vocalizations;
(E) shows a differential reaction to familiar
				  adults and accepts tactual stimulation;
(F) demonstrates potential for academic
				  learning, self-care and semi-independent functioning as an adult;
(G) demonstrates a level of intellectual or
				  social and adaptive functioning of at least 40 on a standardized
				  instrument.
(7) The
				  Governor Morehead School cannot accept students with significant medical
				  problems that would include, but are not limited to planned hospitalization for
				  prolonged period during the school year, chronic moderate to severe respiratory
				  difficulties, semi-consciousness or the requirement of substained medical
				  support services, such as respirators, or seriously emotionally disturbed
				  children who are disruptive that they require constant medical care and
				  treatment by a psychiatrist.