Child Find

Child Find is the process of identifying, locating, and evaluating all children from age three to twenty-one who may have a disability and need special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability. The district seeks to identify, through child find, all children attending Dearborn Heights School District 7 who are enrolled at the school, including those who are homeless, wards of the state, or who may need special education and related services. A child with a disability is a child having a cognitive disability (e.g., mental impairment), hearing impairment (including deafness), visual impairment (including blindness), a speech or language impairment, a serious emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, other health impairment, specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, or multiple disabilities. Parents, relatives, public and private agency employees, and concerned citizens are asked to help the school find any child who may have a disability or special needs that Dearborn Heights School District 7 is unaware of regarding any student.