• Eligibility Guidance and Example Documents
  • Evaluation Instruments (Excel)   (pdf)
  • Eligibility Tools and Resources - 2023
  • Eligibility in SD Guide
  • Parental Prior Written Notice Consent Guidance and Examples
  • Specific Learning Disability Categories and Skills
• IEP Guidance and Example Documents
  • Assistive Technology Technical Assistance Guide 2024
  • IEP Technical Assistance Guide 2022 (No Appendix)
  • PPWN After Decision Examples
  • South Dakota Accommodation Documenting Frequency Location Duration
  • Writing Annual Goals Examples
  • Alternate Assessment Participation Guidelines
  • Hearing Loss or Deafness: Considerations for Assessment Planning and IEP Development
• Other Special Education Documents
  • SD Surrogate Parent Manual
  • Paraprofessional Guidelines
  • Discipline in Detail
  • Engaging Youth in IEPs
  • Sped Data Reporting Sheets
  • Ages 3-5 Eligibility, Developmental Delay, and Progress Monitoring Q&A

• Infinite Campus Special Education Video Tutorials
• Austism Spectrum Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria Handout
• Handout: The Law on Prior Written Notice and Practical Compliance Strategies
• Training Handout: Identifying Student Participation in Alternate Assessment

IEP were updated July 2021 to include some clarifying language, moving the accommodations section and updating the name of the state assessments. If you have an old form or electronic system that is not updated yet, please review changes to see if they impact compliance or if it is extraneous and proceed appropriately.

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Notice - SPANISH
• Request to Excuse IEP Team Members / pdf
• Parental Prior Written Notice/ Consent for Evaluation / (Fillible Word Doc)
• Parent Prior Written Notice / pdf
• Parent Prior Written Notice - SPANISH
• Consent for Initial Provision of Special Education
• Revocation of Consent for Special Education / pdf
• Revocation of Consent for Special Education - SPANISH
• Consent for Initial Provisions of Special Education/Spanish
• Parent Prior Written Notice Following Revocation of Consent
• Parental Prior Written Notice/ Following Revocation of Consent/ Spanish version

• Summary of Performance
• Consent to invite agency / pdf
• TA Guide
• Individual Education Plan for Transition (PDF)

• Medicaid Consent 2023
• Medicaid Consent - sSpanish
• Medicaid Notification 2023
• Medicaid Notification - Spanish