Iowa Code r. 281-41.34 - Related services
(1)
General. "Related services" means transportation and such
developmental, corrective, and other supportive services as are required to
assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education. "Related
services" includes speech-language pathology and audiology services;
interpreting services; psychological services; physical and occupational
therapy; recreation, including therapeutic recreation; early identification and
assessment of disabilities in children; counseling services, including
rehabilitation counseling; orientation and mobility services; and medical
services for diagnostic or evaluation purposes. "Related services" also
includes school health services and school nurse services, social work services
in schools, and parent counseling and training.
(2)
Exception; services that apply to
children with surgically implanted devices, including cochlear
implants.
a. "Related services" does
not include a medical device that is surgically implanted, the optimization of
that device's functioning (e.g., mapping), maintenance of that device, or the
replacement of that device.
b.
Nothing in paragraph "a" of this subrule shall:
(1) Limit the right of a child with a
surgically implanted device (e.g., cochlear implant) to receive related
services as listed in subrule 41.34(1) that are determined by the IEP team to
be necessary for the child to receive FAPE;
(2) Limit the responsibility of a public
agency to appropriately monitor and maintain medical devices that are needed to
maintain the health and safety of the child, including breathing, nutrition, or
operation of other bodily functions, while the child is transported to and from
school or is at school; or
(3)
Prevent the routine checking of an external component of a surgically implanted
device to make sure it is functioning properly, as required in rule
281-41.113 (256B, 34CFR300
).
(3)
Individual related services terms defined. The terms used in
this definition are defined as follows:
a.
"Audiology" includes:
(1)
Identification of children with hearing loss;
(2) Determination of the range, nature, and
degree of hearing loss, including referral for medical or other professional
attention for the habilitation of hearing;
(3) Provision of habilitative activities,
such as language habilitation, auditory training, speech reading (lipreading),
hearing evaluation, and speech conservation;
(4) Creation and administration of programs
for prevention of hearing loss;
(5)
Counseling and guidance of children, parents, and teachers regarding hearing
loss; and
(6) Determination of
children's needs for group and individual amplification, selecting and fitting
an appropriate aid, and evaluating the effectiveness of
amplification.
b.
"Counseling services" means services provided by qualified
social workers, psychologists, guidance counselors, or other qualified
personnel.
c.
"Early
identification and assessment of disabilities in children" means the
implementation of a formal plan for identifying a disability as early as
possible in a child's life.
d.
"Interpreting services" includes the following:
(1) For children who are deaf or hard of
hearing, oral transliteration services, cued language transliteration services,
sign language transliteration and interpreting services, and transcription
services, such as communication access real-time translation (CART), C-Print,
and TypeWell; and
(2) For children
who are deaf-blind, special interpreting services.
e.
"Medical services" means
services provided by a licensed physician to determine a child's medically
related disability that results in the child's need for special education and
related services.
f.
"Occupational therapy" means services provided by a qualified
occupational therapist, and includes the following:
(1) Improving, developing, or restoring
functions impaired or lost through illness, injury, or deprivation;
(2) Improving ability to perform tasks for
independent functioning if functions are impaired or lost; and
(3) Preventing, through early intervention,
initial or further impairment or loss of function.
g.
"Orientation and mobility
services" means services provided to children who are blind or
visually impaired by qualified personnel to enable those students to attain
systematic orientation to and safe movement within their environments in
school, home, and community, and includes teaching children the following, as
appropriate:
(1) Spatial and environmental
concepts and use of information received by the senses (such as sound,
temperature and vibrations) to establish, maintain, or regain orientation and
line of travel (e.g., using sound at a traffic light to cross the
street);
(2) To use the long cane
or a service animal to supplement visual travel skills or as a tool for safely
negotiating the environment for children with no available travel
vision;
(3) To understand and use
remaining vision and distance low vision aids; and
(4) Other concepts, techniques, and
tools.
h.
"Parent
counseling and training" means assisting parents in understanding the
special needs of their child; providing parents with information about child
development; and helping parents to acquire the necessary skills that will
allow them to support the implementation of their child's IEP or
IFSP.
i.
"Physical
therapy" means services provided by a qualified physical
therapist.
j.
"Psychological services" includes the following:
(1) Administering psychological and
educational tests, and other assessment procedures;
(2) Interpreting assessment
results;
(3) Obtaining,
integrating, and interpreting information about child behavior and conditions
relating to learning;
(4)
Consulting with other staff members in planning school programs to meet the
special educational needs of children as indicated by psychological tests,
interviews, direct observation, and behavioral evaluations;
(5) Planning and managing a program of
psychological services, including psychological counseling for children and
parents; and
(6) Assisting in
developing positive behavioral intervention strategies.
k.
"Recreation" includes the
following:
(1) Assessment of leisure
function;
(2) Therapeutic
recreation services;
(3) Recreation
programs in schools and community agencies; and
(4) Leisure education.
l.
"Rehabilitation counseling
services" means services provided by qualified personnel in individual
or group sessions that focus specifically on career development, employment
preparation, achieving independence, and integration in the workplace and
community of a student with a disability. The term also includes vocational
rehabilitation services provided to a student with a disability by vocational
rehabilitation programs funded under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended
through August 14, 2006, 29
U.S.C. 701 et seq.
m.
"School health services and school
nurse services" means health services that are designed to enable a
child with a disability to receive FAPE as described in the child's IEP. School
nurse services are services provided by a qualified school nurse. School health
services are services that may be provided by either a qualified school nurse
or other qualified person.
n.
"Social work services in schools" includes the following:
(1) Preparing a social or developmental
history concerning a child with a disability;
(2) Group and individual counseling with the
child and family;
(3) Working in
partnership with parents and others on those problems in a child's living
situation (home, school, and community) that affect the child's adjustment in
school;
(4) Mobilizing school and
community resources to enable the child to learn as effectively as possible in
his or her educational program; and
(5) Assisting in developing positive
behavioral intervention strategies.
o.
"Speech-language pathology
services" includes the following:
(1)
Identification of children with speech or language impairments;
(2) Diagnosis and appraisal of specific
speech or language impairments;
(3)
Referral for medical or other professional attention necessary for the
habilitation of speech or language impairments;
(4) Provision of speech and language services
for the habilitation or prevention of communicative impairments; and
(5) Counseling and guidance of parents,
children, and teachers regarding speech and language impairments.
p.
"Transportation" includes the following:
(1) Travel to and from school and between
schools;
(2) Travel in and around
school buildings; and
(3)
Specialized equipment, such as special or adapted buses, lifts, and ramps, if
required to provide special transportation for a child with a
disability.
(4)
Rule of construction. A particular service listed in this rule
may also be considered special education under rule
281-41.39 (256B, 34CFR300 ), a
supplementary aid and service under rule
281-41.42 (256B,34CFR300), or a
support service under rule
281-41.409
(256B,34CFR300).
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