Any and all funds appropriated for physical restoration of crippled children may be used for the purpose of enabling the State Board of Education to comply with the federal Social Security Act and to continue to extend and improve the services for locating crippled children or children having any congenital or acquired malformations or disabilities and for providing medical, surgical, plastic, orthopedic, or other corrective services, care and treatment, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and aftercare for children suffering from disabilities from congenital or acquired malformations or from conditions which lead to disabilities, including eye defects, epilepsy, hearing defects, speech defects, or other congenital or acquired malformations that may be corrected.
Ala. Code § 21-3-2 (1975)