{"id":10378,"date":"2018-01-03T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:49:51","slug":"know-of-children-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/know-of-children-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Know of Children With Disabilities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">What is <span class=\"s1\">Child<\/span> Find? <span class=\"s1\">Child<\/span> Find is a statewide effort by the Alabama State Department of Education and the Department of Rehabilitation Services to locate, identify, and evaluate <span class=\"s1\">child<\/span>ren with disabilities from birth to age 21<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">How does Child Find work? Early Intervention and Special Education Services work closely with community service agencies, parents, and local school systems to locate children with disabilities. A toll -free number is provided for parents or other persons interested in information about referring a child from birth to age 21.\u00a0 Why is Child Find Important? It <span class=\"s1\">help<\/span>s the <span class=\"s1\">child<\/span>, the family, and the provider to plan appropriate services and link families to services for students meeting eligibility requirements in the following disability areas: hearing impairment, deaf-blindness, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, speech-language impairment, visual impairment, specific learning disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, developmental delay, and emotional disability.For more information about <span class=\"s1\">Child<\/span> Find, contact your local school system, local coordinating council, or call Susan Riggs at <a href=\"callto:205-486-5181\"><span class=\"s2\">205-486-5181<\/span><\/a> for ages 3-21 or for Birth through 2 years old, call <a href=\"callto:1-800-543-3098\"><span class=\"s2\">1-800-543-3098<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Child Find? Child Find is a statewide effort by the Alabama State Department of Education and the Department of Rehabilitation Services to locate, identify, and evaluate children with disabilities from birth to age 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}