Sulphur Springs ISD Announces Child Find Process for Special Education Services

Sulphur Springs ISD Announces Child Find Process for Special Education Services

Sulphur Springs Independent School District (SSISD) is actively engaged in the Child Find process, a federally and state-mandated initiative to identify, locate, and evaluate all students from birth through age 21 within the district who may be in need of special education and related services. This includes children with disabilities attending private schools, those who are homeless, and children who are wards of the state. The Child Find proce…

“Eat the Frog Early” and Other Lessons From Special Education - Light + Life Magazine

By David S. Cushing Do you remember going to school every year from kindergarten to 12th grade? So do I… I returned to the high school I graduated from and began working in a special education classroom for another thirteen years. This experience felt like a mix of “Billy Madison” and “Welcome Back, Kotter.” However, this time, my focus wasn’t on reading, writing, arithmetic, middle school anxiety, or deciding who to go …

Justices to consider standards for special-education discrimination suits

Monday’s argument in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools is the latest in a long series of Supreme Court cases involving the statutory rights Congress has granted to schoolchildren with disabilities. Two sets of statutes are important: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and a pair of overlapping anti-discrimination statutes, the Americans with Disability Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The IDEA obligates all school districts to provide a “…