Special Education Information
Randy Hughes, Director of Special Education and Pupil Services
Kaukauna Area School District provides a free appropriate public education to all children with disabilities for whom the district is responsible, including non-resident children attending the district under the full-time open enrollment law.
Special education and related services are provided to all children with disabilities from age three, but not yet 22, who are residents of the district and have not graduated from high school with a regular high school diploma, including children with disabilities who have been suspended or expelled from school. The special education and related services provided to children address all of their special education and related services needs.
Definition
"Special education" means specially-designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability, including:
- instruction conducted in the classroom, in the home, in hospitals and institutions, and in other settings
- instruction in physical education
- speech-language pathology services, or any other related service, if the services consist of specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the the unique needs of a child with a disability, and is considered special education rather than a related service under Wisconsin standards
- travel training if it consists of specially-designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability; and
- vocational education if it consists of specially-designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with disability.
The district provides services to students with disabilities, ages three, but not yet 22, with the following impairments:
- Autism
- Cognitive Disability
- Emotional Behavioral Disability
- Hearing Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Significant Developmental Delay
- Speech or Language Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
- Early Childhood
If you have any questions regarding Kaukauna Area School District's Special Education Program, please contact Randy Hughes, Director of Special Education/Pupil Services, at 766-6100 or email hughesr@kaukauna.k12.wi.us.
Links: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction