Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part VII - Office for Aid to Nonpublic Education › Chapter 112 - AUXILIARY SERVICES FOR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 112.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Act 89
-Section
					 922.1A of the Public School Code
					 of 1949 (24 P. S. §
											9-972.1).
Auxiliary services
-Guidance, counseling,
					 and testing services; psychological services; services for exceptional
					 children; remedial services; speech and hearing services; services for the
					 improvement of the educationally disadvantaged, such as, but not limited to
					 teaching English as a second language; and such other secular, neutral,
					 nonideological services of a supplementary and remedial nature as are of
					 benefit to all school children and are presently or hereafter provided for
					 public school children of the Commonwealth. The following is a more detailed
					 description of the auxiliary services identified in this paragraph:
(i)
Guidance, counseling and
				  testing
-Includes, but is not limited to such services as are
				  delineated in §
										7.13 (relating to health
				  services).
(ii)
Psychological services
-Those diagnostic and evaluative
				  services for children, possibly involving consultation and counseling with
				  students, parents, and members of the professional staff.
(iii)
Exceptional
				  children
-Children of school age who deviate from the average in
				  physical, mental, emotional, or social characteristics to such an extent that
				  they require special educational facilities or services and including all
				  children in detention homes.
(iv)
Services for exceptional children
-Services which are generally
				  recognized to be of particular benefit to exceptional children.
(v)
Remedial services
-Those
				  corrective services applied following identification, including, but not
				  limited to, medical, psychological, and psychiatric and remedial
				  measures.
(vi)
Speech and
				  hearing services
-Those services provided to students whose condition
				  of speech or hearing interferes with satisfactory communication or deviates
				  from accepted standards of their individual social and cultural
				  communities.
(vii)
Services
				  for the improvement of the educationally disadvantaged
- Those services
				  necessary to assist a student to perform at the grade level appropriate for his
				  age and potential.
Department
-The Department of Education of
					 the Commonwealth.
Intermediate unit
-Those units established
					 by the act of May 4, 1970 (P. L. 311, No. 102) (24 P. S. §§
											9-951-9-971).
Nonpublic school
-A nonprofit school
					 located in this Commonwealth, other than a public school, wherein a resident of
					 this Commonwealth may legally fulfill the compulsory school attendance
					 requirements of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. §§
											1-101-27-2702) and which meets the
					 requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
					 42 U.S.C.A.
					 2000 et seq.