Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part I - State Board of Education › Subpart A - Miscellaneous Provisions › Chapter 14 - SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES AND PROGRAMS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 14.101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
In addition to the definitions in §§
											14.102 and
						14.103 (relating to purposes; and
						terminology related to Federal regulations), the following words and terms,
						when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context
						clearly indicates otherwise:
Act
-The Early Intervention Services
						System Act (11 P. S. §§
												875-101-875-503).
Agency
-A school entity, approved private
						school, State-operated program or facility or other public (excluding charter
						schools and cyber charter schools under Article XVII-A of the School Code
						(24
						P. S. §§
												17-1701-A-17-1751-A)) or private
						organization providing educational services to children with disabilities or
						providing early intervention services.
Age of beginners
-The minimum age
						established by the school district board of directors for admission to the
						district's first grade under §
											11.15 (relating to admission of
						beginners).
Developmental areas
-Cognitive,
						communicative, physical, social/emotional and self-help.
Developmental delay
-A child who is less
						than the age of beginners and at least 3 years of age is considered to have a
						developmental delay when one of the following exists:
(i) The child's score, on a developmental
					 assessment device, on an assessment instrument which yields a score in months,
					 indicates that the child is delayed by 25% of the child's chronological age in
					 one or more developmental areas.
(ii) The child is delayed in one or more of
					 the developmental areas, as documented by test performance of 1.5 standard
					 deviations below the mean on standardized tests.
ESY
-Extended school year.
Early intervention agency
-A school
						entity or licensed provider that has entered into a mutually agreed upon
						written arrangement (MAWA) with the Department to provide early intervention
						services to eligible young children in accordance with the act.
Early intervention services
-As defined
						in section 103 of the act (11 P. S. §
												875-103).
Eligible young child
-A child who is less
						than the age of beginners and at least 3 years of age and who meets the
						criteria in 34 CFR
						300.8 (relating to child with a
						disability).
IEP
-Individualized education
						program.
IST
-Instructional support team.
MDT
-Multidisciplinary team.
Mutually agreed-upon written
						arrangement
-As defined in section 103 of the act.
Parent
-The term as defined in
						34 CFR
						300.30 (relating to parent) and also includes
						individuals appointed as foster parents under 55 Pa. Code §
											3700.4 (relating to
						definitions).
School Code
-The Public School Code of
						1949 (24 P. S. §§
												1-101-27-2702).
School entity
-A local public education
						provider such as a school district, area vocational-technical school or
						intermediate unit but excluding charter schools and cyber charter schools under
						Article XVII-A of the School Code.
Student with a disability
-A child of
						school age who meets the criteria in
						34 CFR
						300.8 (relating to child with a
						disability).
The provisions of this §
													14.101 amended under sections 1372
						  and 2603-B of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S.
						  13-1372 and
						  26-2603-B).
This section cited in 22 Pa.B. §
													10.2 (relating to definitions); 22
						  Pa.B. §
													49.1 (relating to definitions); 55
						  Pa.B. §
													3270.4 (relating to definitions);
						  55 Pa.B. §
													3280.4 (relating to definitions);
						  and 55 Pa.B. §
													3290.4 (relating to
						  definitions).