New to Special Education, Behavior/Discipline, Transition, ARD Committee Meetings
Video series featuring Texas families sharing insights on raising children with disabilities, offering support, strategies, and encouragement.
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New to Special Education
ECTA Center offers resources and support to early childhood programs and families for young children with disabilities and developmental delays.
ARD Committee Meetings, New to Special Education
A video overview of ARD committee meetings, explaining their purpose and guiding families through the process.
Behavior/Discipline
Tips for parents to support teens facing emotional challenges, with strategies to build trust, resilience, and open communication.
New to Special Education, Additional Resources
Supports families in understanding intensive intervention and how it helps students with severe needs using data-driven, individualized methods.
Transition
8 self-advocacy strategies, tips, and real-life examples for individuals with disabilities and their families.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Covers alternate assessments, LRE, IDEA provisions, classroom access strategies, and next steps for families of students with disabilities.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
This page explains how students with disabilities participate in testing and the supports available to help them succeed.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Overview of Texas student assessments including STAAR, TELPAS, and alternatives, with resources for educators, families, and administrators.
Develop the IEP, Additional Resources, Understanding Parent Rights
Explains accommodations in classrooms and tips on how to use them to aide your student.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Helps families and teachers find tools and info to make classroom changes and support students with disabilities through aids and accommodations.
Transition
Provides age-specific checklists and strategies to track progress and build independence skills for students with disabilities.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Find released STAAR test questions from the Texas Education Agency to help students, parents, and educators prepare for state assessments
ARD Committee Meetings, Implement the IEP
Explains how IEPs must include ways to measure progress toward annual goals, ensuring effective services and keeping parents informed.
Understanding Parent Rights, New to Special Education
Training for surrogate and foster parents on their role in special education, focusing on IDEA rights, responsibilities, and advocacy.
Transition
An overview of Supported Decision-Making Agreements, which let people with disabilities make their own choices with support from others.
Behavior/Discipline
CSEFEL promotes social-emotional development in young children with evidence-based practices & resources.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Learn how transportation services support children with disabilities under IDEA, including eligibility, IEP decisions, and school responsibilities.
Behavior/Discipline, ARD Committee Meetings
Fact sheet to help parents plan for school meetings about their child's behavior using planning tips, tools, and effective communication strategies.
Determine Eligibility, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Learn how schools identify and support students with SLD and dyslexia, and how parents can request evaluations. Slides available here.
Additional Resources
Learn about special education updates from legislation passed during the 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session (2025).
Develop the IEP
Learn about the new Autism Supplement Guidance Document and helpful strategies for parents and students.
New to Special Education
Provides early learning, health, and family services to support low-income children and their families.
Develop the IEP, Implement the IEP
Learn more about the types of related services that may be included in a student’s IEP to help them benefit from special education.