Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3301 - Department of Education - Administration and Director › Chapter 3301-51 - Education of Students with Special Needs › Section 3301-51-20 - Admission, transfer, suspension, and expulsion standard for the Ohio state schools for the blind and deaf

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Definitions
(1)
									"Deaf/hard of
			 hearing" refers to children who qualify under the special education eligibility
			 categories of deafness and hearing impairment.
(2)
									"Deaf-blindness"
			 mean co-occurring hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which
			 causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
			 that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for
			 children with deafness or children with blindness.
(3)
									"Deafness" means
			 a hearing impairment that is so severe that a child is impaired in processing
			 linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification that
			 adversely affect a child's educational performance.
(4)
									"Hearing
			 impairment" means an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating,
			 that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not
			 included under the definition of deafness in rule
			 3301-51-01 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(5)
									"Parent" means:
(a)
										A biological or
			 adoptive parent of a child but not a foster parent of a child;
(b)
										A guardian
			 generally authorized to act as the child's parent, or authorized to make
			 educational decisions for the child (but not the state if the child is a ward
			 of the state);
(c)
										An individual acting in the place of a biological or
			 adoptive parent (including a grandparent, stepparent, or other relative) with
			 whom the child lives, or an individual who is legally responsible for the
			 child's welfare; or
(d)
										A surrogate parent who has been appointed in accordance
			 with rule
			 3301-51-05 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(e)
										Except as provided in paragraph (A)(5)(f) of this rule,
			 the biological or adoptive parent, when attempting to act as the parent under
			 this rule and when more than one party is qualified under this rule to act as a
			 parent, must be presumed to be the parent for purpose of this chapter of the
			 Administrative Code unless the biological or adoptive parent does not have
			 legal authority to make educational decisions for the child.
(f)
										If a judicial
			 decree or order identifies a specific person or persons under paragraphs
			 (A)(5)(a) to (A)(5)(c) of this rule to act as the parent of a child or to make
			 educational decisions on behalf of a child, then such person or persons shall
			 by determined to be the parent for purposes of this rule.
(6)
									"School district of residence" means:
(a)
										The school
			 district in which the child's parents reside;
(b)
										If the child is
			 enrolled in a community school, the community school is considered to be the
			 "school district of residence";
(c)
										If the school
			 district specified in paragraph (A)(6)(a) or (A)(6)(b) of this rule cannot be
			 determined, the last school district in which the child's parents are known to
			 have resided if the parents' whereabouts are unknown;
(d)
										Notwithstanding
			 paragraphs (A)(6)(a) to (A)(6)(d) of this rule, if a school district is
			 required by section 3313.65 of the Revised Code to
			 pay tuition for a child, that district shall be the child's school district of
			 residence.
(7)
									"Visual impairment" including blindness means an
			 impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's
			 educational performance.
(a)
										The term "visual impairment" includes partial
			 blindness, deafness, deaf-blindness, blindness, or multiple disabilities if one
			 of the disabilities is vision related;
(b)
										The term "visual
			 impairment" does not include a disorder in which one or more of the basic
			 psychological processes, such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal
			 brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.