As per the Education Act, every school board shall establish an advisory committee on services for handicapped students and students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities. The functions of the Special Education Advisory Committee are:

1. to advise the school board on a policy for the organization of educational services to handicapped students and students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities;

2. to advise the resource allocation committee and the school board on the allocation of financial resources to the services intended for those students;

3. to advise the school board on its commitment-to-success plan.

The committee may also advise the school board on the implementation of an individualized educational plan (IEP) for a handicapped student or a student with social maladjustments or learning disabilities.

• The majority of the committee must be parents of students concerned, designated by the parents' committee

• Representatives of the teachers, of the members of the non-teaching professional staff, and of the members of the support staff, designated by the associations which represent them in their dealings with the school board and elected from among the persons who provide services to the students concerned

• Representatives of bodies which provide services to handicapped students or to students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities, designated by the council of commissioners after consulting with those bodies;

• A school principal designated by the director general.

• The director general or his representative shall take part in the sittings of the committee but he is not entitled to vote.

Each year, the school board shall inform the advisory committee on services for handicapped students and students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities of the amount of the financial resources available for services intended for those students and of the allocation of those resources in light of the policies defined by the Minister. The school board shall report each year to the committee and the Minister on requests for reconsideration made under section 9 relating to services for handicapped students and students with social maladjustments or learning disabilities.