SPECIAL EDUCATION

Battle Creek Public Schools Special Education Services

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Disability categories

Related Services

Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education

Contact our Special Education Department

BATTLE CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
Diane Lanham
Director, Special Education
Battle Creek Public Schools
Department of Special Education
Ann J. Kellogg Elementary School
306 Champion Street
Battle Creek, Michigan 49017
269 965-9775

For information regarding services please contact the Special Education Department office located at Ann J. Kellogg School at (269) 965-9775.

The Battle Creek Public School District operates as a regional special education service center for the Calhoun Intermediate School District serving special education students eligible as physically and otherwise health impaired, hearing impaired, or visually impaired.

The Battle Creek Public District also operates as a center program for the Calhoun Intermediate School District serving special education students from Oliver, Bellevue, and Pennfield Schools Districts. Special education students served from these three districts are in Battle Creek’s programs for the preprimary impaired, emotionally impaired, or educable mentally impaired.

Students are placed in district programs by an Individual Educational Planning Team (IEPT) meeting after considering local district options for serving students in the least restrictive environment. The members of the Team develop an Individual Educational Plan that includes goals and objectives, a description of services, and a timeline for implementation.

The student’s performance is reviewed at least annually at an IEP Team meeting. Measures of success include, but are not limited to, improved communications, physical, academic, social, and personal skills as measured by formal testing, informal testing, and by observations.

Educational services, determined by the IEPT, may include evaluations to determine eligibility for special education, physical and occupational therapy, school social work, nursing service, transportation, adapted equipment, communication devices, parent counseling, individualized academic instruction, physical education, prevocational skill development, personal adjustment, vocation skill development and transition services.

INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
The Battle Creek Public Schools shall comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a federal mandate, and the Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education (effective 6/2002). Evaluation, eligibility and student assignment are the responsibility of the school district.

Disability categories include:

    1. Cognitive impairment
    2. Emotional impairment
    3. Hearing Impairment
    4. Visual impairment
    5. Physical impairment
    6. Other health impairment
    7. Speech and language impairment
    8. Early childhood developmental delay
    9. Specific learning disability
    10. Severe multiple impairment
    11. Autism
    12. Traumatic brain injury

RELATED SERVICES
Related services are available, as determined by the Individual Education Program Team. These services may include:

    1. Transportation
    2. Attendant services
    3. LRE aide services
    4. Orientation and mobility services
    5. Interpreters services
    6. Braille services
    7. Occupation Therapy services
    8. Physical Therapy services
    9. Nursing services
    10. Speech & Language Therapy services

MICHIGAN ADMINISTRATIVE RULES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION
Copies of the new Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education are available from the Center for Educational Networking, Eaton Intermediate School District, 1790 East Packard Highway, Charlotte, MI 48813.

CONTACT OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
For information regarding services please contact the Special Education Department office located at Ann J. Kellogg School at 965-9775.