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04/09/2025

SPEDTex, the Special Education Information Center, is here to help with any of your special education related questions. Contact us at spedtex.org or 1-855-773-3839.

04/09/2025

Please take a minute and vote for this amazing parent!

One extraordinary mama will appear in Woman's World magazine, take home $20,000, and enjoy a weekend getaway in Napa Valley, California.

04/09/2025

This beautiful and amazing super mom was one of my clients! She is strong and truly cares for her children and her community. I admire her so much!

One extraordinary mama will appear in Woman's World magazine, take home $20,000, and enjoy a weekend getaway in Napa Valley, California.

05/20/2024

32nd Annual Texas Autism Conference

Registration is now open for the 32nd Annual Texas Autism Conference! https://spedsupport.tea.texas.gov/learning-library/texas-autism-conference Parents, guardians, and caretakers are invited to join the June 22 Family Day sessions free of charge. These sessions are entirely online and are geared towards parenting and caretaker topics that improve the lives of our students and children with autism. There will be many breakout sessions and a family focus group on this day. Learn more about the Texas Autism Conference and register for Family Day here: https://ecampus.esc13.net/show_class_info.html?classid=51323

Family Day for the 32nd annual Texas Autism Conference will provide families, educators, campus leadership, and individuals with autism with strategies, resources, tools, and evidence-based practices in the education and service of persons with autism.El Día de la Familia para la 32nd Conferencia A...

05/20/2024

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Webinar: Please Don’t Hang Up! What Families Need to Know About the Post-School Outcomes Survey

Join us for a free statewide webinar on May 22, 2024, at 12:15 p.m. (CT). Every state is required to collect and report data about what happens to students who were receiving special education services when they exited school. Are former students employed? Are they enrolled in college or some type of higher education program? In Texas, a survey is completed by a contracted vendor one year after exit. If your child graduated or dropped out anytime during school year 2022-23, you may receive a postcard, text message, phone call, or email during the summer of 2024. Learn more about the survey, State Performance Plan Indicator (SPPI) 14, and why you or your adult child may be helping to improve special education services statewide by responding to the SPPI 14 survey. Register here:

04/26/2024

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.
Karen E. Quinones Miller

01/19/2024

Great information for all parents in Texas with children with disabilities.

Special Education Information, Updates, and Resources Share This Email Share This Email January 2024 Haga clic aquí para español RESOURCES Transition Planning Resources for Families: Recorded Webina

12/20/2023

This guide was created by the Think College Transition team. It discusses the need to plan for the ways that higher education will be different from high school, including higher academic expectations, increasing independence, and new social environments.

https://thinkcollege.net/sites/default/files/files/resources/HTTC_03_Understanding_Difference_HS_and_College.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2GQ6A73boryegaixPccNo00TyYK5_E0APQtKyf1KQlEBARIoo-vy15Pas

11/22/2023

This was me, but I didn’t have teachers who recognized my need to move and I didn’t become a dancer. I became an advocate to help those who are considered different or difficult. I also worked in the public school system for many years.
Encourage those that are “different” learners to find their passion and gifts.

Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school.

She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons.

Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing.

Gillian does not know how to sit and cannot be attentive.

When she comes home, her mother punishes her too.

So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers from them at home.

One day, Gillian's mother is called to school.

The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news, takes her hand and goes to the interview room.

The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder.

Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.

During the interview an old teacher arrives who knows the little girl.

He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues, to follow him into an adjoining room from where she can still be seen.

As he leaves, he tells Gillian that they will be back soon and turns on an old radio with music.

As the girl is alone in the room, she immediately gets up and begins to move up and down chasing the music in the air with her feet and her heart.

The teacher smiles as the colleagues and the mother look at him between confusion and compassion, as is often done with the old.

So he says: "See? Gillian is not sick, Gillian is a dancer!"

He recommends that her mother take her to a dance class and that her colleagues make her dance from time to time.

She attends her first lesson and when she gets home she tells her mother: "Everyone is like me, no one can sit there!"

In 1981, after a career as a dancer, opening her own dance academy and receiving international recognition for her art, Gillian Lynne became the choreographer of the musical "Cats."

Hopefully, all “different” children find adults capable of welcoming them for who they are and not for what they lack.

Long live the differences, the little black sheep and the misunderstood.

They are the ones who create beauty in this world

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10/13/2023

Want to know more about your rights as a parent with a child with a disability and your child's rights? Here is the TEA IDEA Manual.

09/13/2023

https://www.landmarkschool.org/our-school/landmark-360-blog?id=323155/dyslexia-a-guidebook-blog-series&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

09/09/2023