Eligibility for Special Education under designation of Early Childhood Developmental Delay
The Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education (MARSE) define eligibility for special education services within thirteen categories of disability.
R 340.1702 Student with a disability defined.
Rule 2. “Student with a disability” means a person who is determined by an individualized education program team or a hearing officer to have 1 or more of the impairments specified in this part that necessitates special education or related services, or both, who is not more than 25 years of age as of September 1 of the school year of enrollment, who has not completed a normal course of study, and who has not graduated from high school. A student who reaches the age of 26 years after September 1 is a “student with a disability” and entitled to continue a special education program or service until the end of that school year.
R 340.1711 Early Childhood Developmental Delay explained; determination.
Rule 11. (1) “Early childhood developmental delay”means a child through 7 years of age whose primary delay cannot be differentiated through existing criteria within R 340.1705 to R 340.1710 or R 340.1713 to R 340.1716 and who manifests a delay in 1 or more areas of development equal to or greater than 1/2 of the expected development. This definition does not preclude identification of a child through existing criteria within R 340.1705 to R 340.1710 or R 340.1713 to R 340.1716.
(2) A determination of early childhood developmental delay shall be based upon a full and individual evaluation by a multidisciplinary evaluation team.
- Determination of Eligibility for Early Childhood Developmental Delay MMSE for Infants and Toddlers, Birth to Age Three
- Introduction- Determination of Eligibility for MMSE for Infants and Toddlers, Birth to Age Three
