“School day”

means any day, including a partial day, that children are
in attendance at school for instructional purposes. The term has
the same meaning for all children in school, including children
with and without disabilities.

“School health services and school nurse services”

means health
services that are designed to enable a child with a disability to
receive FAPE as described in the child’s IEP. School nurse services
are services provided by a qualified school nurse. School health
services are services that may be provided by either a qualified
school nurse or other qualified person.

“Scientifically based research”

means research that involves the
application of rigorous, systematic, and objective procedures to
obtain reliable and valid knowledge relevant to education activities
and programs and includes research that:

1. Employs systematic, empirical methods that draw on
observation or experiment;
2. Involves rigorous data analyses that are adequate to test the
stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions drawn;
3. Relies on measurements or observational methods that
provide reliable and valid data across evaluators and
observers, across multiple measurements and observations,
and across studies by the same or different investigators;
4. Is evaluated using experimental or quasi-experimental
designs in which individuals, entities, programs, or activities
are assigned to different conditions and with appropriate
controls to evaluate the effects of the condition of interest,
with a preference for random-assignment experiments, or
other designs to the extent that those designs contain withincondition
or across-condition controls;
5. Ensures that experimental studies are presented in sufficient
detail and clarity to allow for replication or, at a minimum,
offer the opportunity to build systematically on their findings;
and
6. Has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved
by a panel of independent experts through a comparably
rigorous, objective, and scientific review.
“Screening” means those processes that are used routinely with all
children to identify previously unrecognized needs and that may
result in a referral for special education and related services or
other referral or intervention.
“Section 504” means that section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
as amended, which is designed to eliminate discrimination on
the basis of disability in any program or activity receiving federal
financial assistance.

“Serious bodily injury” means bodily injury that involves substantial
risk of death, extreme physical pain, protracted and obvious
disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of
a bodily member, organ or mental faculty. (

“Services plan” means a written statement that describes the special
education and related services the local educational agency will
provide to a parentally placed child with a disability enrolled in
a private school who has been designated to receive services,
including the location of the services and any transportation
necessary, and is developed and implemented in accordance with

“Social work services in schools” means those services provided
by a school social worker or qualified visiting teacher, including:
(Licensure Regulations for School Personnel,

1. Preparing a social or developmental history on a child with a
disability;
2. Group and individual counseling with the child and family;
3. Working in partnership with parents and others on those
problems in a child’s living situation (home, school, and
community) that affect the child’s adjustment in school;
4. Mobilizing school and community resources to enable
the child to learn as effectively as possible in the child’s
educational program; and
5. Assisting in developing positive behavioral intervention
strategies for the child.
A local educational agency, in its discretion, may expand the role
of a school social worker or visiting teacher beyond those services
identified in this definition, as long as the expansion is consistent
with other state laws and regulations, including licensure.
“Special education” means specially designed instruction, at no
cost to the parent(s), to meet the unique needs of a child with
a disability, including instruction conducted in a classroom, in
the home, in hospitals, in institutions, and in other settings and