State Plan for Special Education and Services.

Overview & Synopsis

Presented is Hawaii's state plan for the provision of special education and services to all handicapped children under 20 years of age by 1980-81. Explained in Chapter I are the philosophic and legal bases for the plan, including the right to equal educational opportunities for children with the following handicapping conditions: mental retardation, hearing handicaps, speech impairments, visual handicaps, physical handicaps and special health problems, serious emotional disturbance, specific learning disabilities, or multiple handicaps. Nine other chapters cover topics such as the special education roles and responsibilities of the State Department of Education and other cooperating public and private agencies; program delivery options (including resource, itinerant and non-public school services); identification, diagnosis and prescription; career and vocational education; preservice and inservice training and certification of special education personnel; management systems; and implementation plans. Appended is a copy of Section 301 of Hawaii's revised statutes concerning exceptional children. (LH)