Alaska Administrative Code
Title 4 - Education and Early Development
Chapter 52 - Education for Children with Disabilities and Gifted Children
Article 2 - Program Administration: Children with Disabilities
4 AAC 52.250 - Special education aides

(a) A person employed as a special education aide shall be trained by a special education teacher or specialist certificated under 4 AAC 12.330 or 4 AAC 12.365, or licensed under AS 08.11, AS 08.84, or AS 08.86 to provide the services with which the aide will assist.

(b) Before a special education aide assists in providing direct special education or related services to a child or children, or concurrent with providing direct special education or related services to a child or children, the district must provide and document a minimum of six hours of annual training, in the aggregate, to the aide regarding

(c) Each special education aide employed by the district to assist in providing special education to a child must be supervised on-site by the certificated special education teacher responsible for the child's program. The child's IEP team shall make an individualized determination of the frequency of on-site supervision for each program. A district must provide for on-site supervision at least once every month unless the IEP team, after consideration of all the evidence, determines that less frequent on-site supervision for that program is sufficient to provide a FAPE to the child. However, a district may not provide on-site supervision under this subsection less frequently than once every three months.

(d) Each special education aide employed by the district to assist in providing related services to a child must be supervised on-site by the certificated or licensed related services provider responsible for the child's program. The child's IEP team shall make an individualized determination of the frequency of on-site supervision for each related service. A district must provide for on-site supervision at least once every month unless the IEP team, after consideration of all the evidence, determines that less frequent on-site supervision for that related service is sufficient to provide a FAPE to the child. However, a district may not provide on-site supervision under this subsection less frequently than once every three months.