District Five to conduct search for children with disabilities

JOHNSONVILLE, S.C. ? Florence County School District Five will conduct a search on March 14 to identify children with disabling conditions who are not enrolled in school.

Florence County School District Five presently provides or is planning programs or services for children with the following disabling conditions: intellectual disabilities; deaf/hard of hearing, deaf-blindness; visual, orthopedic or speech-language impairments; specific learning and emotional disabilities; traumatic brain injury; developmental delay; autism; and other health impairments and disabilities.

Parents with a child who does not attend school who has one of the disabilities listed above is asked to take him/her to Johnsonville Elementary Schoolbetween 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on March 14. Kindergarten registration will also be conducted during this time.

Any person who knows of a disabled child between the ages of 0-21 who is not in school and lives in the Florence County School District Five area is asked to contact Wanda Moore, the district's special services administrative assistant, at 843-386-3268.