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Publications - Alphabetical Listing by Title Key Word(s)

The items below are available for download. Florida residents may order one complimentary hard copy of items that are marked with a red asterisk (*). Contact or (850) 245-0477 to order.

504

• A Parent and Teacher Guide to Section 504 - Frequently Asked Questions - (PDF, 332KB)
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - District Implementation Guide (2011) (PDF, 2MB)
• Section 504 - Accommodation Plan for Postsecondary Adult/Vocational Education Students (May 2004) - (PDF, 1MB)

A

Access Points

• Access Points Instructional Materials Review Process Manual (2010) (PDF, 395KB)
• A Parent's Guide to Access Points, Access Courses, and Resources (PDF, 5MB)
• A Parent's Guide to Access Points, Access Courses, and Resources - print master (PDF, 2MB)
• Quick Reference Guide for Access Points, Access Courses, and Resources (PDF, 2MB)
• Quick Reference Guides for Access Points, Access Courses, and Resources - print master (PDF, 896KB)

Accommodations

• * Accommodations: Assisting Students with Disabilities (2010) (PDF, 716KB)
• Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities - What Parents Need to Know (2003) (PDF, 2MB)
  • Acomodos y modificaciones: Lo que los padres tienen que saber (Revisido en 2003). (Spanish) (PDF, 2MB)
• Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities in Career Education and Adult General Education - brochure (revised 2011) (PDF, 292KB)
• Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities in Career Education and Adult General Education - guide (revised 2011) (PDF, 6MB)

Assistive Technology

• Interagency Agreement for the Transfer of Assistive Technology

C

Career and Technical Education

• Program Options for Students with Disabilities Career and Technical Education - (PDF, 148KB)
• Program Options for Students with Disabilities Career and Technical Education / What Students and Families Need to Know - (PDF, 145KB)
• Simply Careers! - Helping Students with Disabilities Effectively Plan Their Futures through Comprehensive Career Development (PDF, 712KB)

Child Abuse Prevention

• Child Abuse Prevention Sourcebook for Florida School Personnel: A Tool for Reporting Abuse and Supporting the Child - (PDF, 4MB)

Computer-based Testing

• Computer-based Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities - (PDF, 1MB)
  • Computer-based Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities - (RTF, 981KB)

Considerations for Educationally Relevant Therapy (CERT)

• CERT Form Training Tool (Link to script and video)

D

• Dare to Dream for Adults - (PDF, 26MB)
  • Atrévete a Soñar para Adultos 2005 (Spanish) (PDF, 4MB)
• Databook -AMM 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
• * Disability History and Awareness: A Resource Guide 2010 (PDF, 1MB)
• Disability History and Awareness Bookmark (PDF, 208KB)

Diverse Classroom

• Assessment for the Diverse Classroom - A Handbook for Teachers - (PDF, 4MB)
• Designing Lessons for the Diverse Classroom - A Handbook for Teachers - (PDF, 1MB)

E

ESE - Exceptional Student Education

• Evaluations for Special Education Services: Information for Parents – 2010 (PDF, 154KB)
• * What is Exceptional Student Education for Children with Disabilities? – 2011 - (PDF, 342KB)
  • * ¿Qué es la Educación de Estudiantes Excepcionales para Niños con Discapacidades? (Spanish) - (PDF, 384KB)
  • * Kisa Yo Rele Edikasyon Eksepsyonel Pou Timoun Andikape Yo? (Haitian Creole) - (PDF, 307KB)
• What is Exceptional Student Education for Children Who Are Gifted? - 2011 - (PDF, 126KB)
  • ¿Qué es la educación de estudiantes excepcionales para niños(as) superdotados(as)? (Spanish) (PDF, 29KB)

ESY - Extended School Year

• Technical Assistance Paper - FY 2002-5 Determining an Individual Student's Need for Extended School Year (ESY) Services (PDF, 59KB)
• Teacher brochure: Extended School Year Services: A Guide for IEP and FSP Teams (PDF, 79KB)
• A Training Module for IEP Teams: Extended School Year Services for Students with Disabilities (PDF, 62KB)
• IEP team worksheet: Extended School Year Services: Determination of Need for Students with Disabilities (PDF, 63KB)
• Parent brochure: ESY: What's the IDEA Behind Extended School Year Services for Students with Disabilities? (PDF, 89KB)

F

FASD - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

• Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - A Resource Guide for Florida Educators - (PDF, 1MB)

FCAT - Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test®

• * Guide to FCAT and FCAT 2.0 Accommodations for Students with Disabilities (2010) - (PDF, 1MB)
• * Planning FCAT and FCAT 2.0 Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Information for Parents and Teachers (2010) (PDF, 154KB)

FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (PDF, 228KB)
  • Ley de Derechos a la Educación y Privacidad de las Familias (Spanish) (PDF, 241KB)
  • Lwa sou Dwa ak Entimite Lanseyman pou Fanmi (Haitian Creole) (PDF, 230KB)

• Florida Course Descriptions - Exceptional Student Education - Grades 6 - 12 / 1999 Revisions - Suggested Course Performance Objectives
• * Florida Statutes and State Board of Education Rules: Excerpts Related to Exceptional Student Education (Vol. I-B). 2011 (PDF, 8MB)
• Florida Military Student Education Report (PDF, 355KB)

G

Gifted

• Acceleration of Gifted Students - (PDF, 113KB)
• Challenge Grant for the Gifted - 2005-2006 Summaries, Collaborative Curriculum Projects - (PDF, 733KB)
• For Parents of Students Who Are Gifted - An Introduction to Gifted Education - 2004 - (PDF, 722KB)
• Governor's Summer Program for Gifted and High Achieving Students - (PDF, 81KB)
• Procedural Safeguards for Exceptional Students who are Gifted - 6A-6.03313 - (PDF, 83KB)
  • Salvaguardas Procedimentales para Estudiantes Excepcionales Superdotados - 6A-6.03313 - (Spanish) (PDF, 233KB)
• What is Exceptional Student Education for Children Who Are Gifted? - 2011 - (PDF, 126KB)

GROW to 5

• * Welcome to the World (PDF, 253KB) - An Overview of Your Growing Child
  • * Bienvenidos al Mundo - Una panorámica del crecimiento de sus hijos (PDF, 727KB) (Spanish)
  • Byenvini nan Mond Lan: Yon Rezime sou Pitit Ou k ap Grandi (PDF, 262KB) (Haitian Creole)

H

High School

• Florida's Guide to Public High School Graduation - (PDF, 2MB)

I

IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

• Link to IDEA Documents

Individual Education Plan (IEP)

• * Getting Ready for Your Child's IEP Meeting - (PDF, 198KB)
  • Getting Ready for Your Child's IEP Meeting - (Word, 42KB)
  • Cómo prepararse para la reunión sobre el IEP o plan de educación individual de su hijo(a) (PDF, 139KB)
• IEP - Present Levels of Educational Performance - (PDF, 25KB)



• Inclusion - Brief - (PDF, 139KB)

J

Juvenile Justice Education

• * Developing Effective Educational Programs in Department of Juvenile Justice Programs (PDF, 946KB), (Annual Report)
• * Multiagency State Plan: Career Education for Youth in Department of Juvenile Justice Educational Facilities - April 2007 (PDF, 1MB)
• No Child Left Behind in Juvenile Justice Education - Report to the Legislature, February 2005 - (PDF, 608KB)

L

• * Leading Action Research in Schools - (PDF, 548KB)
• Legislative History of Florida's Exceptional Student Education Program
  • letter size (PDF, 339KB)

Links to other government document sources:

• Federal Register - GPO documents
• Florida Legislature - "On-line Sunshine"
• U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) Legislation and Policy
• U.S. Department of Education Publications On-Line Ordering System

M

• * Measuring Adaptive Behavior - Important Information for Parents - (RTF, 53KB)
• * Mediation in Special Education - (PDF, 90KB)
• Monitoring Reports

P

PASS - Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students

• * PASS Materials

Phonological Awareness

• Assessment and Instruction in Phonological Awareness - (PDF, 283KB)
• Education Alert! Phonological Awareness - (PDF, 35KB)
• What Every Teacher Should Know about Phonological Awareness - (PDF, 68KB)

Prekindergarten Children with Disabilities

• Expanding Opportunities for Providing Services: A Guide for Making System and Program Level Decisions - (PDF, 2MB)

Procedural Safeguards

• * Notice of Procedural Safeguards for Parents of Students with Disabilities (PDF, 544KB) Revised 08/2011
  • Aviso de Salvaguardas Procedimentales para Padres de Estudiantes con Discapacidades (Spanish) (PDF, 544KB) Revised 08/2011
  • Avi konsènan Mezi Pwoteksyon pou Paran ak Elèv Andikape yo (Haitian Creole) (PDF, 296KB) Revised 08/2011
  • Notice of Procedural Safeguards for Parents of Students with Disabilities (Russian) (PDF, 1MB) Revised 08/2011
• Procedural Safeguards for Exceptional Students who are Gifted - 6A-6.03313 - (PDF, 83KB)
• Program Options for Students with Disabilities Career and Technical Education - (PDF, 148KB)
• Program Options for Students with Disabilities Career and Technical Education / What Students and Families Need to Know - (PDF, 145KB)

Q

• Quality Standards for Academic Intervention Programs (PDF, 172KB)

R

• Read to Learn - (PDF, 346KB))
  • Leer para Aprender (Spanish) (PDF, 272KB)
• 2011 Resources for Florida’s Teachers - (PDF, 713KB)

S

Seclusion and Restraint

• Documenting, Reporting, and Monitoring the Use of Seclusion and Restraint on Students with Disabilities, Information for Parents Brochure (PDF, 413KB)
  • Documenting, Reporting, and Monitoring the Use of Seclusion and Restraint on Students with Disabilities, Information for Parents (RTF, 67KB)
  • Documentación, Divulgación y Observación del Uso del Aislamiento y Restricción de los Estudiantes con Discapacidades, Información para los padres (Spanish) (PDF, 425KB)
  • Documentación, Divulgación y Observación del Uso del Aislamiento y Restricción de los Estudiantes con Discapacidades, Información para los padres (Spanish) (RTF, 98KB)
  • Kijan yo Dokimante, Rapòte ak Swiv Izolman ak Metrize Elèv Andikape yo, Enfòmasyon Pou Paran yo (Haitian Creole) (PDF, 410KB)
  • Kijan yo Dokimante, Rapòte ak Swiv Izolman ak Metrize Elèv Andikape yo, Enfòmasyon Pou Paran yo (Haitian Creole) (RTF, 88KB)

Service Animals Guidelines

• Memo DPS: 2010-164: Guidelines for School Districts on the Use of Service Animals by Students with Disabilities (PDF)
  • Guidelines for School Districts on the Use of Service Animals by Students with Disabilities - Attachment A (PDF)



• Special Diploma - Performance Objectives for Elementary Students - (Sunshine State Standards) - (PDF, 646KB)
• Summaries of Due Process Hearings in Exceptional Student Education
• Summaries of Agency Orders

Surrogate Parents for Exceptional Students

• Get in the Game: Join the ESE Team as a Surrogate Parent for an Exceptional Student - (PDF, 838KB)
• Get in the Game: Become a Surrogate Parent for an Exceptional Student in Our Community - (PDF, 94KB)

Student Support Services

• Supporting Student Achievement in Florida's Public Schools - Brochure - (PDF, 94KB)
• Florida’s School Counseling Framework (PDF, 8MB)

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• Teaching Resources for Florida Exceptional Student Education Accommodations and Modifications Project
• Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - A Resource Guide for Florida Educators - (PDF, 1MB)
• TAPs - Technical Assistance Papers

Technology

• Top 10 Classroom Technology Strategies

Therapy

• CERT Form Training Tool (Link to Script and DVD)
• Considerations for Educationally Relevant Therapy (CERT) - Occupational and Physical Therapy Summary Sheet - (PDF, 68KB)

Transition Planning

• *Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: A Guide for Families - (PDF, 3MB)
  • Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: A Guide for Families - (RTF, 2MB)

V

Virtual School

• Florida Virtual School in Juvenile Justice Education Programs (PDF)

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