Special Education Programs:
Individual Education Program
Documents
- Alternate Assessment Participation Guidelines
- Developmental Delay Q&A
- Discipline in Detail
- Eligibility in SD Guide
- Engaging Youth in IEPs
- Evaluation Instruments (Excel) (pdf)
- Eligibility Tools and Resources - 2023
- IEP Technical Assistance Guide 2022 (No Appendix)
- Paraprofessional Guidelines
- SD Surrogate Parent Manual
- Sped Data Reporting Sheets
- PPWN After Decision Examples
- SLD Skills Based Guidance
- South Dakota Accommodation Documenting Frequency Location Duration
- Specific Learning Disability Categories and Skills
- Writing Annual Goals Examples
Webinars
- Infinite Campus Special Education Video Tutorials
- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
- Austism Spectrum Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria Handout
- Handout: The Law on Prior Written Notice and Practical Compliance Strategies
- SLD Document Overview Handout
- Evaluation Process (2021) Note: Evaluation process is very individualized. This is session is just a general process webinar.
- Training Handout: Identifying Student Participation in Alternate Assessment
Individual Education Program - Forms
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.
Individual Education Plan (IEP) - (pdf) | Individual Education Plan (IEP) - Spanish |
Individual Education Plan for Transition | IEP Transition - Spanish |
IEP Amendment - (pdf) |
Referral/Eligibility
Notices/Consent
- 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
- Consent for Initial Provision of Special Education - SPANISH
- 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 / pdf
- Parental Prior Written Notice/ Consent for Evaluation/ Spanish version
Contact the SD Department of Education's Special Education Office with questions at (605) 773-3678.