Related Service

8b: Related services is defined as “transportation, and such developmental, corrective, and other supportive services (including speech-language pathology and audiology services, interpreting services, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, including therapeutic recreation, social work services, school nurse services designed to enable a child with a disability to receive a free appropriate public education as described in the individualized education program of the child, counseling services, including rehabilitation counseling, orientation and mobility services, and medical services, except that such medical services shall be for diagnostic and evaluation purposes only) as may be required to assist a child with a disability to benefit from special education, and includes the early identification and assessment of disabling conditions in children. However, the term does not include a medical device that is surgically implanted or the replacement of such device”.

Source: Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004, Public Law No. 108-446, 20 U. S. C. 1400, H. R. 1350.

Retrieved from: http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/tb-second-trans.pdf on June 27, 2006.