(a) The purposes of this classification,
"Other impairments," are:
(1) To further coordination with LEAs and reduce problems of
recordkeeping;
(2) To assist parents in making the transition from Head
Start to other placements; and
(3) To assure that no child enrolled in
Head Start is denied services which would be available to other preschool
children who are considered to have disabilities in their
State.
(b) If the State Education Agency eligibility criteria for preschool children
include an additional category which is appropriate for a Head Start child,
children meeting the criteria for that category must receive services as
children with disabilities in Head Start programs. Examples are "preschool
disabled," "in need of special education," "educationally handicapped," and
"non-categorically handicapped."
(c) Children ages three to five, inclusive, who are experiencing
developmental delays, as defined by their State and as measured by appropriate
diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas:
physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social
or emotional development, or adaptive development, and who by reason thereof
need special education and related services may receive services as children
with disabilities in Head Start programs.
(d) Children who are classified as deaf-blind, whose concomitant hearing and
visual impairments cause such severe communication and other developmental
problems that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely
for deaf or blind children are eligible for services under this category.
(e) Children classified as having multiple disabilities whose concomitant
impairments (such as mental retardation and blindness), in combination, cause
such severe educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special
education programs solely for one of the impairments are eligible for services
under this category. The term does not include deaf-blind children, for
recordkeeping purposes.
