Special Education

Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES)

SB 1716 passed in the 87th Legislative Session expanded the Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES) Program to provide $1500 grants to families of qualifing Special Education students. Beginning November 1, 2021, new eligibilty guidelines will go into effect making all currently enrolled Texas Public School students served by Special Education eligible. 

The Question and Answer document is in both English and Spanish and can be accessed at:

News and Updates

  • Sibling Success: Increase positive interactions between your child with autism and their special sibling(s)

 

  • TEA: Parent's Rights: An Overview of Special Education Evaluations
advantageofspedevalsandservices (PDF)

  • SPEDTex- Special Education Information Center 

The Special Education Information Center (SPEDTex) provides resources and interactive features for increasing family awareness of disabilities and special education processes, with the goal of improving partnerships between schools and families.

Contact information:

Phone: 1-855-773-3839

Email: inquire@spedtex.org

Live Chat: www.spedtex.org

 

Parent's Guide to the ARD Process-SPEDTex

  • State Dyslexia Updates

The Dyslexia Handbook Updates

Actualización del manual de dislexia 

Dyslexia Parent Updates

  • Notice to Families: Special Education Evaluation (Senate Bill 139)

SB 139 Notice to Families (English/Spanish)

  • Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)

In October of 2020, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) required the Texas Education Agency to make several edits to the Procedural Safeguards and the Guide to the ARD Process.  

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