Ages 0-3
Is your child receiving early childhood intervention services through a community agency?
The public school system will support your child in following ways:
- Through an evaluation process,
- By providing district and federal special education guidelines,
- By following a documentation checklist,
- By providing ECSE introduction and information.
Additional support should come from your child's case manager.
Below are related partner resources:
- VELA
- TEA parent handbook
- IDEA Handbook (A Guide for Texas Parents and Students on Special Education Rights)
- Procedural safeguards
- Parent's guide to ARD process
Do you feel your child may need special education services?
If your child is too young to be enrolled in Austin ISD schools, we can help with the Child Find process by coaching parents in how to engage with the state for evaluations.
Ages 3-5
Do you feel your child may need special education services?
The Austin ISD special education team can help you learn about the evaluation request procedures and timelines, ECSE introduction and information, district and federal guidelines, documentation checklist, and qualifying/covered disabilities that Austin ISD will support.
Austin ISD and Partner Resources:
Are you a parent/guardian looking for information on Section 504 services only? If so, what is the difference between 504 plans/accommodations versus IEP with measurable goals?
View the Austin ISD 504 document for answers