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Child Find

Child find is a component of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA ’04) that requires Public Education Agencies (PEA) to locate, identify, and evaluate all children with disabilities, aged birth through 21, located within their boundaries of responsibility who are in need of early intervention or special education services.

HUSD offers a free monthly developmental screening (Child Find) for children 2.9 to 5 years old. This developmental screening includes the below areas: 

  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Social/Emotional
  • Adaptive/Self Help
  • Cognitive
  • Motor
  • Language/Speech 

If you are interested in getting your child screened please call 759-5130 to set up an appointment.

Humboldt Unified School District utilizes a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model to identify the strengths and needs of struggling learners.  

The MTSS model focuses on collaboration between the core members of the student’s team including parents.  This student-focused process analyzes data relative to identified issues of concern, sets individual goals, brainstorms options for intervention, develops an action plan and gathers data to determine the effectiveness of the interventions provided. 

If a parent makes a written request for an initial evaluation for special education services to an administrative employee of the school district, the district must respond no later than 15 school days after receiving the request. At that time, the district must give the parent a prior written notice of whether it agrees to or refuses to evaluate the student, along with a copy of the Summary of "Child Find" Procedures for Parents.  If the school district agrees to evaluate the student, it must also give the parent prior written notice for a special education evaluation. School personnel, parents or guardians, physicians, community agencies, or other appropriate individuals may initiate a referral for special education evaluation. Referral of students for possible special education services is part of the District's overall regular education referral and screening system.

Child find applies to children who are:

  • Suspected of having a disability even though they are advancing from grade to grade
  • Highly mobile, such as migrant and homeless
  • Wards of the state
  • Private school students
  • Homeschool students

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