To update the language and expand the process for making eligibility determinations for those students with a visual impairment including blindness to align with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Additionally, ....
RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:
6A-6.03014Exceptional Student Education Eligibility for Students Who Are Visually Impaired
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To update the language and expand the process for making eligibility determinations for those students with a visual impairment including blindness to align with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Additionally, language within the medical criteria section has been broadened to include students with a vision impairment, including blindness. A visual impairment must be identified regardless of significance or severity provided that such impairment, even with correction, adversely affects student’s current and future education services.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Update exceptional student education eligibility for students who are visually impaired.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 1001.02, 1001.42(4)(l), 1003.01(3)(a)-(b), 1003.55, 1003.57, F.S.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 1001.02, 1003.57, 1010.305(2), 1011.62(1)(c), F.S.
A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: February 5, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., ET or upon inclusion of business, whichever is earlier.
PLACE: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e97cb510-d926-4c97-a1ed-fde68abdd0c0@63bf107b-cb6f-4173-8c1c-1406bb5cb794
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Alice Schmitages, Bureau of Exceptional Student Education, 325 West Gaines Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400, (850)245-0475. To comment on this rule development, please go to https://web02.fldoe.org/rules or contact: Chris Emerson, Director, Office of Executive Management, Department of Education, (850)245-9601 or email Christian.Emerson@fldoe.org.
THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.
Document Information
- Purpose:
- To update the language and expand the process for making eligibility determinations for those students with a visual impairment including blindness to align with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Additionally, language within the medical criteria section has been broadened to include students with a vision impairment, including blindness. A visual impairment must be identified regardless of significance or severity provided that such impairment, even with correction, adversely ...
- Rulemaking Authority:
- 1001.02, 1001.42(4)(l), 1003.01(3)(a)-(b), 1003.55, 1003.57, F.S.
- Law:
- 1001.02, 1003.57, 1010.305(2), 1011.62(1)(c), F.S.
- Related Rules: (1)
- 6A-6.03014. Special Programs for Students who are Visually Impaired