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- Special education programs and services are tailored to meet students’ individual needs. These programs support students with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and more. By law, all school boards must provide special education programs and/or services for students with special education needs.
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By law, all school boards must provide special education programs and/or services for students with special education needs. This page summarizes the processes that school boards must have in place according to the Education Act.
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- Special Education and The Education Act
- Special Education Regulations
- Policy/Program Memoranda (PPM) Concerning Special Education
- Standards For School Boards' Special Education Plans
- Policy and Resource Documents
We recommend that you read this page along with the Education Act, regulations and PPMs. If there is any discrepancy between this summary and the Act, regulations, or PPMs, the information in the source document applies.
Ontario’s Education Actsets out rules around special education. Under the Act, a special education program is as an educational program that is: 1. based on and modified by the results of a continuous assessment and evaluation of a student 2. includes a plan (now referred to as an individual education plan or IEP) containing specific objectives and...
There are a number of regulations under the Education Act that relate to special education. Regulation 181/98: Identification and Placement of Exceptional Pupils sets out rules for the identification and placement of students in special education programs and for identification, placement and review committees (IPRC).. Regulation 306: Special Educa...
There are a number of Policy and Program Memorandum that relate to special education. 1. Policy/Program Memorandum 1: Ontario Schools for the Blind and Deaf as Resource Centres 2. Policy/Program Memorandum 8: Identification of and Program Planning for Students with Learning Disabilities 3. Policy/Program Memorandum 11: Early Identification of Child...
Read Ontario’s policy on province-wide standards that school boards must meet when developing their special education plans in Part B of Special Education in Ontario, Kindergarten to Grade 12: Policy and Resource Guide (2017).
School boards must provide special education programs and services to students who are formally identified as “exceptional pupils.” This is set out in the Education Act.
Special education services can include unique resources, equipment, or specially trained support people. In Ontario, all students have a right to accommodation and support. Every school board must provide special education programs and services to help students with different learning needs.
Under Regulation 306 to the Act, school boards are required to provide special education programs and services to exceptional students. As part of this requirement, each school board must prepare a special education plan, to be reviewed annually.
ensures that school boards provide appropriate special education programs and services for their exceptional pupils; establishes the funding for special education through the structure of the funding model.
School boards are required to have a special education plan, in accordance with Regulation 306 and the ministry policy document entitled Standards for School Boards’ Special Education Plans.
