The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board offers a range of special education programs.

These include:

 Regular class with specialized support
 Regular class with learning support teacher or learning resource teacher monitoring
 Regular class with learning support teacher or learning resource teacher support
 Specialized program 
 Special education school

The tiered approach is an extremely effective approach to assessment and intervention which sequentially increases the intensity of instructional intervention for a student requiring special education programs and services. The following links provides information regarding specialized programs. Specialized programs or special education classes for OCDSB students whose needs can best be met in a class comprised of students with similar identified exceptionalities. The location of the classes may or may not be in a pupil's community school. There is a central application process which requires parental consent to authorize the application.

As required under the Education Act, the District will provide a Special Education Program for the enrolment and placement of each person under the age of 21 who is qualified to be a resident pupil of the Board and who resides or is lodged within the jurisdiction of the Board until the last school day in June in the calendar year in which the pupil attains the age of 21.