GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 112.1. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act 89—Section 922.1A of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. § 9-972.1).
Auxiliary services—Guidance, counseling, and testing services; psychological services; services for exceptional children; remedial services; speech and hearing services; services for the improvement of the educationally disadvantaged, such as, but not limited to teaching English as a second language; and such other secular, neutral, nonideological services of a supplementary and remedial nature as are of benefit to all school children and are presently or hereafter provided for public school children of the Commonwealth. The following is a more detailed description of the auxiliary services identified in this paragraph:
(i) Guidance, counseling and testing—Includes, but is not limited to such services as are delineated in § 7.13 (relating to health services).
(ii) Psychological services—Those diagnostic and evaluative services for children, possibly involving consultation and counseling with students, parents, and members of the professional staff.
(iii) Exceptional children—Children of school age who deviate from the average in physical, mental, emotional, or social characteristics to such an extent that they require special educational facilities or services and including all children in detention homes.
(iv) Services for exceptional children—Services which are generally recognized to be of particular benefit to exceptional children.
(v) Remedial services—Those corrective services applied following identification, including, but not limited to, medical, psychological, and psychiatric and remedial measures.
(vi) Speech and hearing services—Those services provided to students whose condition of speech or hearing interferes with satisfactory communication or deviates from accepted standards of their individual social and cultural communities.
(vii) Services for the improvement of the educationally disadvantaged— Those services necessary to assist a student to perform at the grade level appropriate for his age and potential.
Department—The Department of Education of the Commonwealth.
Intermediate unit—Those units established by the act of May 4, 1970 (P. L. 311, No. 102) (24 P. S. § § 9-951—9-971).
Nonpublic school—A nonprofit school located in this Commonwealth, other than a public school, wherein a resident of this Commonwealth may legally fulfill the compulsory school attendance requirements of the Public School Code of 1949 (24 P. S. § § 1-101—27-2702) and which meets the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.A. 2000 et seq.
Source The provisions of this § 112.1 amended November 30, 1979, effective November 18, 1978, 9 Pa.B. 3939. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (44186).
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