Occupational and Physical Therapy

Services

Laws were passed in 1975 "To ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education which includes special education and related services to meet their unique needs."

Occupational and Physical Therapy are two related services which may be required to assist a child with disabilities to benefit from special education.

Related services must be related to and supportive of the child's educational program.

The goal of educationally relevant therapy is to minimize the effects of the student's handicapping condition on his/her ability to participate in the educational process.