Alaska § 14.30.350 - Definitions.

§ 14.30.350. Definitions.

In AS 14.30.180 — 14.30.350,        (1) “appropriate education” means personalized instruction with sufficient support services to permit a child to benefit educationally from the instruction;

 (2) “child with a disability” means a child with one or more of the following:             (A) intellectual disability;

 (B) learning disabilities;

 (C) emotional disturbance;

 (D) deafness;

 (E) deaf-blindness;

 (F) hearing impairment;

 (G) orthopedic impairment;

 (H) other health impairment;

 (I) speech or language impairment;

 (J) visual impairment;

 (K) multiple disabilities;

 (L) early childhood development delay;

 (M) autism;

 (N) traumatic brain injury;

 (O) developmental disability;

 (3) “due process hearing” means a hearing conducted under AS 14.30.193 ;

 (4) “educational records” means those files, documents, records, and other material that contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by a school district or a person acting for a school district; the term “educational records” does not include the personnel records of the school district, maintained in the normal course of business, that relate exclusively to a person's capacity as an employee, or other records as designated by the department in regulation;

 (5) “informed consent” means that             (A) a child's parent has been fully informed, in the parent's native language or other mode of communication, of all information relevant to the activity for which consent is sought;

 (B) the parent understands and agrees in writing to the carrying out of the activity for which the parent's consent is sought;

 (C) the consent describes that activity and lists any records that will be released and to whom; and

 (D) the parent understands that the granting of consent is voluntary on the part of the parent and may be revoked at any time;

 (6) “parent” means a             (A) child's natural or adoptive parent;

 (B) child's guardian, but not the state if the child is in the legal custody of the state;

 (C) person who is acting in the place of a child's natural or adoptive parent, such as a grandparent or stepparent with whom the child lives, or a person who is legally responsible for the child's welfare; and

 (D) child's surrogate parent who has been appointed under AS 14.30.325 ;

 (7) “related services” means services described in 34 C.F.R. 300.34;

 (8) “school district” means a borough school district, a city school district, a regional educational attendance area, a state boarding school, and the state centralized correspondence study program;

 (9) “special education” means an educational program described in 34 C.F.R. 300.39.

Article 6. Education for Gifted Children.