A free and appropriate public education is provided disabled persons ages two through twenty-one who live in Rockingham County. Programs and services are provided to persons who meet the following criteria:

• Mentally retarded
• Learning disabled
• Hearing impaired
• Seriously emotionally disturbed
• Orthopedically impaired
• Multiply disabled
• Speech/Language impaired
• Developmentally delayed
• Visually impaired
• Autistic
• Deaf
• Deaf/Blind
• Severely and profoundly disabled
• Other health impaired
• Traumatically brain injured

If you have any questions about special programs, policies, and procedures, please ask a special education teacher, a counselor, or an administrator.