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2020 Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students forms due Jan. 31

The Ohio Department of Education’s Office for Exceptional Children asks all Ohio districts to register any attending student who is legally blind, including preschool, homebound, home-schooled or adult students.

Each year we contact districts to request participation in the Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students. I am writing to let you know that the 2020 registration is now open. Please find two documents with more information about this request attached to this email:

  • 2020 Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students Letter 
  • 2020 Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students Registration Form

Superintendents/Directors will need to:

 1. Download registration form (attached to this email)
       a.  Save to your desktop
 2.  Update and make changes to the student information
       a. Changes can be typed directly into the form
 3.  Save the form
 4.  Print and sign the appropriate line
 5.  Make a copy of signed registration form
        a.  The copy should remain on file at the school district
        b.  Parental permission form(s) will remain on file at the school district
 6.  Mail the original registration form to the AT&AEM Center via the United States Postal Service. No faxed forms will be accepted.

         AT&AEM Center
         Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students
         470 Glenmont Avenue
         Columbus, OH 43214

If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Houston at [email protected] or (614) 410-1039 or Judy Siens at [email protected] or (614) 410-1041.

Sincerely,
Jo Hannah Ward, M. Ed.
Director
Office for Exceptional Children
Ohio Department of Education

Attachments Available To Download:
Federal letter - 2020
Federal letter - 2020 (RTF)