Child Find
Per federal or state law, school systems must have established outreach activities to keep families informed of their rights. Summer is a great time to review and update the required postings related to special education:
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Per TEC §29.0112(e), ensure that a link to the Texas Transition and Employment Guide is available on the school system website. If preferred, the school system may post links to the individual documents as they are posted on the Texas SPED Support website or upload each PDF to the school system's website. In that case, the Texas Transition and Employment Guide must be available, at a minimum, in both English and Spanish.
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Per the annual Special Education Consolidated Grant Program Guidelines, school systems must post to their public-facing website the logo, hyperlink, description, and contact information for SPEDTex, the Special Education Information Center.
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School systems must have established outreach activities designed to locate children with disabilities who reside within the jurisdiction of the school system. The school system's public awareness campaign should target a wide variety of people who may work with the school system's students. Public awareness may include posters placed on campuses and district administration buildings. School systems may choose to use TEA’s Child Find public awareness materials found on Texas SPED Support.
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Additionally, TEA makes available several TEA Parent Fact Sheets, which have been created as general resources for families that a school system may choose to use in lieu of creating their own.
SB 139 - Updates in Special Education
SB 139 - Updates in Special Education - Spanish
Resources on Special Education
Compensatory Services - Spanish
Transition and Employment Guide
