Free and Appropriate Education
The Mineral County Board of Education is committed to providing a free appropriate public education to children with exceptionalities identified in accordance with applicable State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations. Exceptional students are those children and young adults between the ages of three and twenty-one whose exceptionality meets the criteria established by West Virginia Board of Education Policy 2419.

Categories of exceptionalities include: autism, blindness and low vision, deafblindness, deafness, developmental delay, emotional/behavioral disorder, gifted, hard of hearing, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech/language impairment, traumatic brain injury.

Useful Links for Parents/Guardians and School Staff

• WVDE Policy 2419: Regulations for the Education of Students with Exceptionalities

• Characteristics of Students with Exceptionalities

• What is Dyslexia?

• What is Dyscalculia?

• Availability of Special Education

• A Student's Right to a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

• Referral Process

• Student Assistance Team (SAT)

• Confidentiality

• WV Department of Education Special Education Website

• Age of Majority Brochure

• Procedural Safeguards

• Secondary Transition Resources

Cameras in the Self-Contained Special Education Classrooms and Bathrooms

• Letter to Parents/Guardians

• Memo to Teachers/Aides/Paraprofessionals

WV Division of Rehabilitation Services

• Website

WVCEEC

• Local Meeting Date

Special Education Administrative Staff Directory

Kelli Wilson, Assistant Superintendent/Special Education Director
304-788-4200, Ext. 123

Susan Vance, Special Education Coordinator
304-788-4218, Ext. 107

Christina Morales, Executive Secretary
304-788-4218, Ext. 109