Dickenson County Public Schools provides special education programs for students with disabilities ages 2 through 21, inclusive. Every child with a disability has the right to a free appropriate public education. Services include programs for individuals who have developmental delays, autism, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, visual impairments, hearing impairments, deaf/blindness, orthopedic impairments, emotional disabilities, speech/language impairments, physical disabilities, other health impairments, multiple disabilities and traumatic brain injuries.

There are five steps included in the Special Education Process. Those steps are:

1. Referral/Child Study Meeting

2. Evaluation

3. Eligibility

4. Development of the Individualized Education Program (IEP). The student’s IEP is reviewed annually.

5. Reevaluation/Triennial
   

Denechia Edwards, Director

Julie Davis, Parent-Family Liaison/Special Education Coordinator

Lauren Johnson, High School Transition Coordinator

• Procedural Safeguards

• Virginia Family Special Education Connection

• Services for Students Identified as Hearing or Visually Impaired

• Child Find Program and Information

• Virginia IEP ProgramPeer

• Department of Education  

• Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center