Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 92 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Chapter 51 - REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Section 92-51-010 - Qualifications of Special Education Personnel for Program Approval and Reimbursement
Current through March 20, 2024
010.01 School districts and approved cooperatives shall ensure that all personnel necessary to carry out this Chapter are appropriately and adequately prepared and trained including that those personnel have the content knowledge and skills to serve children with disabilities, subject to the requirements of Section 2122 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Categorical Assignment |
NDE Approvable Endorsement |
|
010.01D1 |
Adaptive Physical Education |
Adaptive Physical Education |
010.01D2 |
Autism |
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and Independent Living Specialist Special Education Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration Specialist Special Education Behavior Intervention Specialist Speech-Language Pathologist |
010.01D3 |
Emotional Disturbance |
Special Education Behavior Intervention Specialist Special Education |
010.01D4 |
Deaf-Blindness |
Special Education Visual Impairment Special Education Functional Academic Skills and Independent Living Specialist |
010.01D5 |
Diagnostic Services |
School Psychologist Audiologist Speech-Language Pathologist or any special education endorsement |
010.01D6 |
Early Childhood Special Education in Home and Centerbased Programs for Children Birth-Age Five |
Early Childhood plus any Special Education Early Childhood Inclusive Special Education Early Childhood Special Education Special Education Early Intervention Specialist |
010.01D7 |
Hearing Impairments |
Deaf or Hard of Hearing |
010.01D8 |
Home (School Age) and Hospital (Birth to 21) Services |
Any Teaching endorsement |
010.01D9 |
Home-School Liaison |
Any special education endorsement School Counselor |
010.01D10 |
Intellectual Disability |
Special Education |
010.01D11 |
Multicategorical Programs |
Instructional personnel serving students in a multicategorical program shall be considered to be endorsed in the assigned area if an endorsement is held in at least one of the disability categories served |
010.01D12 |
Multiple Disabilities |
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and Independent Living Specialist |
010.01D13 |
Orthopedic Impairments |
Special Education |
010.01D14 |
Program Supervision |
Administrative or Supervisory certificate and at least one Special Education endorsement or any Special Education Administrative or Supervisory certificate |
010.01D15 |
Learning Disabilities |
Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration Specialist Special Education |
010.01D16 |
Speech-Language Impairments |
Speech-Language Pathologist |
010.01D17 |
Substitute Teacher |
Any Teaching certificate |
010.01D18 |
Traumatic Brain Injury |
Special Education Functional Academic Skills and Independent Living Specialist Special Education Special Education Behavior Intervention Specialist Speech-Language Pathologist Special Education Inclusion and Collaboration Specialist |
010.01D19 |
Visual Impairment |
Special Education Visual Impairment |
010.01D20 |
Work Study Program or Transition Program |
Any special education endorsement School Counselor Vocational Special Needs Cooperative Education - Diversified Occupations Secondary Transition Specialist |
010.02 For purposes of 92 NAC 51-010.01D5, 010.01D14 and 010.01D20 "special education endorsement" shall include any approvable endorsement under 92 NAC 51-010.01D except 010.01D8, 010.01D17 and excluding the specific endorsements of guidance and counseling, educational audiologist, vocational special needs, cooperative education diversified occupations and special services certificate for school transition specialist.
010.03 Related Services Personnel and Paraprofessionals
010.04 Personnel providing special education services who do not hold Department of Education certification and endorsement, shall be licensed by the appropriate State of Nebraska Board of Examiners.
010.05 Personnel employed by approved service agencies shall be certified by the Department of Education or shall hold the credential or training required by the licensing standard under which the service providers operate.
010.06 Qualified Educational Sign Language Interpreters
010.07 Notwithstanding any other individual right of action that a parent or student may maintain under this Chapter, nothing in this section or Chapter shall be construed to create a right of action on behalf of an individual student or class of students for the failure of a school district or approved cooperative employee to meet IDEA 2004 criteria or to prevent a parent from filing a complaint about staff qualification pursuant to Section 009 of this Chapter.