Child Find

About Child Find

Child Find is a component of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA ’04) that requires PEAs to locate, identify, and evaluate all children with disabilities, aged birth through 21, located within their geographical boundaries who are in need of early intervention or special education services.  

Child find applies to children who are:

·       Suspected of having a disability even though they are advancing from grade to grade

·       Highly mobile, such as migrants and the homeless

·       Wards of the state

·       Private school students

·       Homeschool students

The Exceptional Student Service Department (ESS) of the Page Unified School District (PUSD) provides a full range of services for students who have learning needs that lie outside the usual range of instructional differentiation provided in general education classrooms and meet eligibility criteria for one of the recognized categories of educational disability.  

Do you have concerns about your child’s functioning in any of these areas? 

·       Vision (ability to see and interpret visual information)

·       Hearing (ability to detect and process sounds)

·       Cognitive or Academic Skills (thinking, learning, and problem-solving abilities)

·       Communication (expressing and understanding ideas through language or gestures)

·       Motor Skills (coordinated use of muscles for movement and control)

·       Social-Emotional or Behavioral Skills (interactions and behavior in social settings)

·       Adaptive Development (everyday self-care and independence skills)

PUSD can provide screenings in each of these areas upon request for any child, ages 3 to 21.  A parent may request screening in the following ways:

For school-age children 5-21 who currently attend a PUSD school, contact your child’s school. 

Page Early Childhood Learning Center (928)-608-4156

Page Elementary (928)-608-4200

Page High School (928)-608-4138

Mansa Mesa (928)-608-4353

For preschool-age children, ages 3-5, contact the PUSD Preschool at 928-608-4176. 

For children younger than 3 years, services are available through the Arizona Early Intervention Program (AzEIP) at https://des.az.gov/azeip (888) 592 -0140 or by email at AzEIP.Info@encirclefamilies.org.

Parents also have the right to request a special education evaluation from the district when an educational disability and the need for specialized instruction is suspected.  A written request is recommended, and the parent should contact the ESS department at 928-608-4154 or spedrecords@pageud.org.