Special Education

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• Special Education Resources for Educators

  Best practice resources

• Bureau of Special Education

• Special Education Fiscal, RFPs and Grants

  Includes resources for the IDEA Part B grant and other grants, SPDG, and other cost-related information.

• Special Education Updates

  Archived topical special education memoranda, articles from the Bureau of Special Education’s trade periodical, and the state of the art Web-based Bureau Bulletin.

• Special Education Resources for Families

  ADHD Resources, Parents Guide, Parent Surveys, PPT checklist and more.

• National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC)

  Information and resources on obtaining acccessible instructional materials.

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Early Childhood Special Education

  In Connecticut, special education and related services are available to eligible children by age 3 and are provided by local and regional school districts.

• Specific Learning Disability and SLD/Dyslexia

  This page contains information on the identification/assessment, instruction/intervention, and resources for educating students with SLD, including SLD/Dyslexia.

• Secondary Transition - Planning from School to Adult Life

  This page contains information and resources to assist in Secondary Transition Planning, including age appropriate assessments, Postsecondary Outcome Goals Statements and Annual IEP Transition Goals/Objectives, Summary of Performance (SOP), Transition Resources and Services in CT, including other State Agencies and CT Transition Programs Offering Transition-Only Services for Students with Disabilities (18-21), as well as resources and tools related to IDEA Indicators 1: Graduation, 2: Dropout, 13: Secondary Transition, and 14: Post-School Outcomes.

• State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Report (APR)

  Connecticut’s SPP/APR is a multi-year plan that describes and reports on the state’s performance on 17 compliance-based and results-based indicators in special education.

• Regional Educational Service Center (RESC) Special Education Funding Working Group Committee

  Meetings and Agendas, Funding Sources, and Resources for the Regional Educational Service Center (RESC) Special Education Funding Working Group Committee.

• CT State Advisory Council for Special Education

  Meeting Schedules, Agendas, Minutes, and Archives for the Connecticut State Advisory Council for Special Education

• Connecticut IEP Manual

  The Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) has developed a new Individualized Education Program (IEP) document with input from a representative group of stakeholders. The purpose of this manual is to assist planning and placement teams (PPTs) in creating high quality IEPs for students in Connecticut.

• Special Education Hearing Decisions

  View Special Education Hearing Decisions from current year back to 1998.