The term significant developmental delay refers to a delay in a child’s development in adaptive behavior, cognition, communication, motor development or emotional development to the extent that, if not provided with special intervention, the delay may adversely affect a child’s educational performance in age-appropriate activities. The term does not apply to children who are experiencing a slight or temporary lag in one or more areas of development, or a delay which is primarily due to environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage or lack of experience in age appropriate activities. The SDD eligibility may be used for children from ages three through nine (the end of the school year in which the child turns nine). [See 34 C.F.R. § 300.8(b)]

Staff Contact

Jan E. Stevenson
619 Coordinator/Young Children Consultant
1870 Twin Towers East
205 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30334
Tel: (404) 657-9965
Fax: (770) 344-4463
E-mail: jstevenson@doe.k12.ga.us

Download:

• SDD Rules and Regulations

Online Resources:

• Bright from the Start/Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
• Babies Can’t Wait/ Georgia Department of Human Resources
• Center for Early Literacy Learning
• Council for Exceptional Children/ Division for Early Childhood
• The Early Childhood Outcomes Center
• Georgia Association on Young Children
• Georgia Head Start Association
• Georgia Parent Infant Network for Educational Services (Georgia Pines)
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Special Quest
• Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention on Young Children