Special Education
Operating Procedures
- ChildFind - Ages 0-5
- ChildFind - Child Find Duty
- ChildFind - Children Who Transfer
- ChildFind - Dyslexia Services
- ChildFind - Referral for Possible Special Education Services
- Evaluation - Disabilities
- Evaluation - Evaluation Procedures
- Evaluation - Independent Educational Evaluation
- Evaluation - Review of Existing Evaluation Data
- FAPE - Admission Review and Dismissal Committee Meeting
- FAPE - Admission Review and Dismissal Committee Membership
- FAPE - Composite
- FAPE - Parent Participation
- FAPE - Transition and Graduation Composite
Notices and Resources
- Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) Process (Spanish)
- Notice of Procedural Safeguards (Spanish)
- Transition and Employment Guide (Spanish)
- Texas Driving with Disability Program
- Child Find Notice to Families (Spanish)
- Compensatory Services Due to COVID 19 (Spanish)
- Additional TEA Special Education Resources
SPEDTex
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.
Contact information:
Phone: 1-855-773-3839
Email: inquire@spedtex.org
Live Chat: www.spedtex.org
Dyslexia
In compliance with TEA requirements, UT Tyler University Academy will follow guidance for identification in The Dyslexia Manual.
The Talking Book Program (TBP) provides free library services to qualifying Texans with visual, physical, or reading disabilities. TBP is part of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, a program administered by the Library of Congress. The TBP collection consists of more than 100,000 titles, including hundreds of titles in Spanish, and some in French, German, Russian, and other languages.
Section 504
Campus Directors serve as the Section 504 contacts for their campuses.
Tyler – Dr. Aimee Dennis (adennis@uttyler.edu)
Longview – Rachel Hawkins (rhawkins@uttyler.edu)
Palestine – Shelly Parsons (sparsons@uttyler.edu)
Sammi Broussard
Director of Special Education
sbroussard@uttyler.edu