DEFINITIONS.

SEC. 103. DEFINITIONS. Section 637 of the Head Start Act (42 U.S.C. 9832) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs (16) and (17) and inserting the paragraphs at the end of the section; (2) by inserting before paragraph (3) the following: “(1) The term ‘child with a disability’ means— “(A) a child with a disability, as defined in section 602(3) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; and “(B) an infant or toddler with a disability, as defined in section 632(5) of such Act. “(2) The term ‘delegate agency’ means a public, private nonprofit, or for-profit organization or agency to which a grantee has delegated all or part of the responsibility of the grantee for operating a Head Start program.“; (3) by striking paragraph (4); (4) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); (5) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: “(3) The term ‘family literacy services’ means services that are of sufficient intensity in terms of hours, and of sufficient 112 STAT. 2704duration, to make sustainable changes in a family, and that integrate all of the following activities: “(A) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children. “(B) Training for parents regarding how to be the primary teacher for their children and hill partners in the education of their children. “(C) Parent literacy training that leads to economic self–sufficiency. “(D) An age–appropriate education to prepare children for success in school and life experiences.”; (6) in paragraph (6), by adding at the end the following:“Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require an agency to provide services to a child who has not reached the age of compulsory school attendance for more than the number of hours per day permitted by State law (including regulation) for the provision of services to such a child.”; (7) by striking paragraph (12) and inserting the following: “(12) The term ‘migrant and seasonal Head Start program’ means— “(A) with respect to services for migrant farmworkers, a Head Start program that serves families who are engaged in agricultural labor and who have changed their residence from one geographic location to another in the preceding 2-year period; and “(B) with respect to services for seasonal farmworkers, a Head Start program that serves families who are engaged primarily in seasonal agricultural labor and who have not changed their residence to another geographic location in the preceding 2-year period.”; (8) by inserting after paragraph (14) the following: “(15) The term ‘scientifically based reading research’— “(A) means the application of rigorous, systematic, and objective procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to reading development, reading instruction, and reading difficulties; and “(B) shall include research that— “(i) employs systematic, empirical methods that draw on observation or experiment; “(ii) involves rigorous data analyses that are adequate to test the stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions drawn; “(iii) relies on measurements or observational methods that provide valid data across evaluators and observers and across multiple measurements and observations; and “(iv) has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved by a panel of independent experts through a comparably rigorous, objective, and scientific review.”; and (9) in paragraph (17) (as redesignated in paragraph (1))— (A) by striking “Term” and inserting “term”; (B) by striking “Virgin Islands,” and inserting “Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but for fiscal years ending 112 STAT. 2705before October 1, 2001 (and fiscal year 2002, if the legislation described in section 640(a)(2)(B)(iii) has not been enacted before September 30, 2001), also means”; and (C) by striking “Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.” and inserting “and the Republic of Palau.”.