Each year school districts throughout Ohio participate in an effort to identify, locate and evaluate all children, birth through age 21, with disabilities such as multi-handicaps, hearing, visual, orthopedic, social/emotional, health conditions, and/or speech/language handicaps. Anyone aware of a child residing in the Dover City School District who may have one or more of the suspected disabilities, including preschool-age children, should contact Gina Franks, Director of Special Education, at the Dover Schools' Pupil Services Office at (330) 364-7124.
Dover City Schools receives IDEA-B funds for the purpose of the education of children with disabilities. Annually, at the September Board of Education Meeting, discussion will be held regarding how the District will spend its IDEA-B funds and time will be allowed for public comment.