The Department of Education shall annually prepare and distribute to local school boards packets of information describing the educational and other services available through the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, and the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired to students who are identified as deaf or hard of hearing or visually impaired. Local school boards shall annually post this information on the school division’s website and inform the parents of those students who are identified as deaf or hard of hearing or visually impaired of its availability. School boards shall ensure that packets of such information are available in an accessible format for review by parents who do not have Internet access.


The faculty members responsible for Special Education Transition Planning and Coordination at Ridgeview High School are: 

Denechia Edwards, Director
Betty Newton, IEP/Transition Coordinator


Your Family’s Special Education Rights

VIRGINIA PROCEDURAL SAFEGUARDS NOTICE  Revised September 2013
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/special_ed/regulations/state/procedural_safeguards/english_procedural_safeguards.pdf

Regulations Governing Special Education Programs for Children with Disabilities in Virginia
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/special_ed/regulations/state/regs_speced_disability_va.pdf

Virginia Family Special Education Connection
http://vafamilysped.org/

Services for Students Identified as Hearing or Visually Impaired

Child Find Program and Information