Children with Disabilities
Enrollment
Enrollment Year
Family
Head Start Eligible
Head Start Program
Income Guidelines
Indian Tribe
Low-Income Family
Migrant Family
Recruitment
Selection
Vacancy
[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
[CITE: 45CFR1305.2] [Page 145-146]
TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1305_ELIGIBILITY, RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE IN HEAD START--Table of Contents
Sec. 1305.2 Definitions
(a) Children with disabilities means children with mental
retardation, hearing impairments including deafness, speech or language
impairments, visual impairments including blindness, serious emotional
disturbance, orthopedic impairments, autism, traumatic brain injury,
other health impairments or specific learning disabilities who, by
reason thereof need special education and related services. The term "children with disabilities'' for children aged 3 to 5, inclusive, may,
at a State's discretion, include children experiencing developmental
delays, as defined by the 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.
(b) Enrollment means the official acceptance of a family by a Head
Start program and the completion of all procedures necessary for a child
and family to begin receiving services.
...
(d) Enrollment year means the period of time, not to exceed twelve
months, during which a Head Start program provides center or home-based
services to a group of children and their families.
(e) Family means all persons living in the same household who are:
(1) Supported by the income of the parent(s) or guardian(s) of the
child enrolling or participating in the program, and
(2) related to the
parent(s) or guardian(s) by blood, marriage, or adoption.
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(g) Head Start eligible means a child that meets the requirements
for age and family income as established in this regulation or, if
applicable, as established by grantees that meet the requirements of
section 645(a)(2) of the Head Start Act. Up to ten percent of the
children enrolled may be from families that exceed the low-income
guidelines. Indian Tribes meeting the conditions specified in 45 CFR
1305.4(b)(3) are excepted from this limitation.
(h) Head Start program means a Head Start grantee or its delegate
agency(ies).
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(j) Income guidelines means the official poverty line specified in
section 652 of the Head Start Act.
(k) Indian Tribe means any Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, or other
organized group or community of Indians, including any Native village
described in section 3(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43
U.S.C. 1602(c)) or established pursuant to such Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq.), that is recognized as eligible for special programs and services
provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as
Indians.
(l) Low-income family means a family whose total annual income
before taxes is equal to, or less than, the income guidelines. For the
purpose of eligibility, a child from a family that is receiving public
assistance or a child in foster care is eligible even if the family
income exceeds the income guidelines.
(m) Migrant family means, for purposes of Head Start eligibility, a
family with children under the age of compulsory school attendance who
changed their residence by moving from one geographic location to
another, either intrastate or interstate, within the preceding two years
for the purpose of engaging in agricultural work that involves the
production and harvesting of tree and field crops and whose family
income comes primarily from this activity.
(n) Recruitment means the systematic ways in which a Head Start
program identifies families whose children are eligible for Head Start
services, informs them of the services available, and encourages them to
apply for enrollment in the program.
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(q) Selection means the systematic process used to review all
applications for Head Start services and to identify those children and
families that are to be enrolled in the program.
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(s) Vacancy means an unfilled enrollment opportunity for a child and
family in the Head Start program.
[57 FR 46725, Oct. 9, 1992, as amended at 58 FR 5518, Jan. 21, 1993; 63
FR 12657, Mar. 16, 1998]
