November 2024

RESOURCES

Explore Special Education Resources

The SPEDTex Resource Locator is your gateway to special education resources. From accommodations to transition and everything in between, the SPEDTex Resource Locator lets you tailor your search by topic, language, and type. Click here to explore.

6 Essential Skills for Reading Comprehension

Helping children with reading comprehension can be challenging, as it requires them to master several essential skills, like decoding, to truly understand the material. Fortunately, there are effective ways to support struggling readers both at home and in school. Discover some helpful strategies in this article from understood.org. Click here to read.

Delayed or Denied Evaluations and Compensatory Services

Compensatory services are used to help students make up for progress or skills they lost when their special education services were not provided. This includes situations where a child does not get special education services because he or she was denied a timely initial evaluation but later found eligible. Who decides if these services are needed? Learn more in this one-pager shared by Texas Education Agency (TEA). Click here to find out more.

UPCOMING EVENT

Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES) - $1,500 Grant for Parents of Students Served Through Special Education

Join us for a free statewide webinar on December 4, 2024, at 12:15 p.m. (CT). Huck Spear, Family Engagement and Outreach Coordinator at the Texas Education Agency will join us for an informative presentation on Parent Directed Special Education Services (PDSES). Over the past 4 years, more than 160,000 students have benefitted from the Parent-Directed Special Education Services (PDSES), previously the Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES) grant, which gives $1,500 online accounts to the families of public-school students served by special education in Texas. Families can use PDSES funds to purchase educational items like books, computers, and/or sensory items, and services like tutoring or therapy for their student. The presentation will provide an overview of the program, guide parents through the application process, outline the PDSES online marketplace, and address some of the most frequently asked questions regarding the program. 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.