RESOURCES

New Updates: Texas Transition and Employment Guide

The Texas Transition and Employment Guide is designed to help students with disabilities and their families prepare for life beyond high school. This comprehensive guide provides practical steps, helpful resources, and tools to support planning for adult life beyond graduation from high school. The guide is available in five languages so families across Texas can easily access the information they need. Explore the guide today and discover how it can support students in creating a meaningful future with a career, continued learning, and community.

Coach to Communicate

Texas A&M University's Coach to Communicate Project provides a webinar for enrolled parents, caregivers, teachers, and service providers of children with autism, as well as face-to-face/online individual parent training sessions at no cost. Participants will be instructed on how to improve their children's communication skills. Click here to learn more.

Requesting a Special Education Evaluation

If you are concerned that your child may have a disability and needs special education or related services to be involved in and make progress in school, then an evaluation for special education eligibility may be appropriate. As a parent or guardian, you have the right to request that your child’s school conduct an evaluation to determine if your child is eligible to receive special education services at any time. This video from SPEDTex provides more information.

UPCOMING EVENT

Special Education Updates with Kristin McGuire

Join us for a free statewide webinar on September 24, 2025, at 12:15 p.m. (CT). Kristin McGuire, Interim Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Special Populations and Student Supports at the Texas Education Agency will be joining us to discuss special education updates based on legislation passed during the 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session (2025). Register here.

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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.