ESS Overview
- Exceptional Student Services
ESS Overview
Updated
Services to district-resident students with disabilities are available, through special education, for all eligible students, ages birth through twenty-one.
Special programs are provided to students identified as having disabilities in any of the following areas:
- Autism
- Emotional Disability
- Hearing Impairment
- Other Health Impairments
- Specific Learning Disability
- Mild, Moderate or Severe Intellectual Disability
- Multiple Disabilities
- Multiple Disabilities with Severe Sensory Impairment
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Preschool Moderate Delay
- Preschool Severe Delay
- Preschool Speech/Language Delay
- Speech/Language Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment
- Developmental Delay
For birth through age 2, MUSD will refer students to Arizona Early Intervention Services. You may contact the MUSD office at 682-4782 for more information.
For ages 3 through 5, services are provided by the district preschool child find office (520-682-4815). Services include screening, referral for an evaluation, identification and placement of students who qualify for special education.
For ages 5 through 21, services are provided at each school and include screening, referring for evaluation, evaluating, identifying and placing disabled students into appropriate services. Questions about these matters should be directed to the building principal, school psychologist or Special Education office (520-682-4782).