001all right well good afternoon everyone thank you for joining us I'm excited because we have lots of resources to share with you today but I did want to welcome you to our um afternoon webinar and let you know that this session is being recorded once the recording is finalized it will be posted to the same website where you found the link to join us this afternoon we don't have a chat feature but the question and answer feature is available so if anything that the presenters are sharing with you today you have a question about go ahead and pop it in there it does help help us um with guidance on some future webinars perhaps or maybe even some guidance documents we may not answer the question directly um but it helps um support any of
002the information that we're sharing with you when you provide questions to us so um and if it's a specific question I will make sure it gets to the specific presenter so thank you all um I'm gonna go ahead and turn it we've got Nathan who's going to start us off this afternoon I'm gonna turn it over to you Nathan great thank you good afternoon everybody um I'm Nathan p I'm the autism coordinator here at tea and so I'm going to show you all today some uh brand new upcoming resources for autism some updates to existing resources and then just some reminders um of resources so on Texas fed support you can navigate to the autism uh topic page if it let to me um first things first we've got the Texas autism conference this conference
003is open for registration right now the conference is hybrid format so you can register for inperson in Austin Texas or register for an online only conference it is June 19th through 21st this year um and the in-person option is R region uh Region Center 13 in Austin and then the 21st is a family day where it is free to register uh for everybody and the topics are geared toward families and all of the topics are pre recorded translated to Spanish and available for at least 60 days after the um conference date so that's our conference you can register on the conference web page located on TSS do want to show you um an upcoming resource that will replace an existing one so if you go to TSS and navigate to the autism supplement you can
004search for or it's actually on the page as well um if you scroll down so we have an existing autism supplement guidance document which is a 16-page uh Commissioners rule related U to autism rule guidance side by side what we've done with this one is we've created a new resource to replace this one that will hopefully be available in the next few months this resource on the autism supplement will um include key points for each of the 11 strategies for consideration uh related to the rule rule it will also have examples of compliant IEP statements and non-compliant IEP statements for each of the 11 strategies so that is brand new and hopefully can help the field there um we'll also include best practice tips for each of the strategies and we'll still have um this
005question and answer that we have for each of the 11 strategies in the existing document you'll see here we have a question followed by an answer for some clarification and some guidance we still will have that in the new document and we'll just have expanded on it slightly so that is hopefully coming soon and once again it will just replace the existing uh rural guidance side by side on the website so the same link it'll just be a larger hopefully more thorough document to to assist you all with completion of um that requirement in the IEP another resource this one is TBD we don't have it out yet um it's a transportation resource that we're working on for student students with disabilities including all students with all disabilities um but we have an Autism section
006there as well and it was spearheaded through the autism um subgrant so that resource will be um how to support students with disabilities on the bus for transportation staff it'll be a PDF guidance document and hopefully that will come out in the next few months as well it'll include kind of overviews for transportation staff on the characteristics of different disabilities with some strategies to assist um students that have those different disabilities when riding the bus let me show you some other ones that we have out and existing we do have our strategies and action videos these have been out for a while but we're adding to them um as time goes on here we just added some new ones and we are currently in the process of adding I think eight additional ones to this
007so this is a collection on Texas bed support here are kind of our older ones that we have if you scroll down to the bottom you'll see a little bit of change in the format these are our new ones that were recently released you can see We've Got U requesting using a device prompting labeling um some of the differences you'll see on the new ones is that we include um older students in these in the previous videos there were mostly examples ecsc um younger students in classroom settings so these are and and I'm just going to press play I don't know if it will share audio but if I can just get to the still so you can see we've got some older students here and these new video resources um so that's our strategies
008and action and we will have um a few more of those coming out this this year as well another resource I wanted to highlight that we are making updates too and I'll share all of these links and make them available for you after the meeting is the autism toolkit so this is a collection on Texas support of different tools I think we have around 40 different tools and you're probably aware of these already these are these been popular for many years but we're adding to these tools and we're also making adjustments um and edits to the existing tools to make the guidance a little bit more um actionable for folks to take away so you'll see each of these tools we have visuals they'll come with downloadables Associated sections on when to use tips to
009use them how to use them additional tips there's a variation section on some of them as well but we're looking at making these a little bit more uniform in um how we've written them and then expand on some of the guidance so folks can easily take these tools away and apply them with their students in the classroom um and we'll add to those over the years as well all right let's see I also have the updates to the EBP webinars the evidence-based practice webinars for autism so this is a collection of um courses on Texas bed support Texas bed support let see if I can find that and so what we've done here is we've updated the videos for some of them um and then we've created brand new videos for others and we base
010our um collection here on Inc Cape the national Clearing House um for autism educational practice their report on the 28 evidence-based practices for students with autism and so we try to match that with these short videos and so I'm sorry short courses and so we've added some additional courses to this based on ENC cape's latest report that came out that identified just a few different ebps for autism and we made updates to align with enape on steps for implementation or some of the EVPs that were existing ing previously so um there are 28 of these and each one is its own separate course each one is about one half hour um and these are also some of them are included in the autism circuit Academy if you ever join that cohort which opens in September
011and we we go through um some of these during that cohort let me see if I have anything else the only other additional uh piece of information I have um for you all is related to the Innovative services for students with autism Grant um if you're familiar with that Grant it is a two-year Grant that's currently in its second year um that will end in 2026 for a group of 10 leas um I would just encourage everybody to to uh keep track of the legislative session if you're interested in the future Grant there um related to um Lea programming for autism that they've already filed a few bills related to that Grant they have not passed yet they've just been introduced but I always get questions from leas regarding future grants I would just encourage
012you all to track the um legislative tracker for that and then look for updates in the spring of 20126 or fall of 2025 in relation to any future grants we might have for that and H that's all I have um for autism thank you all perfect Nathan thank you for all those updates and I appreciate you pointing out that there's some older students available you know within those videos that's kind of nice to hear so I appreciate it Nathan thank you so much so um so I think it's a toss up Lindsay do you want to go next or Mandy I think Lindsay will start with you maybe sure hi everybody I am lindsy crry I'm the complex needs coordinator with our special education technical assistance division so I'm going to give you guys some
013updates on new and upand cominging resources that we have um on the Texas fed support website and um if you have your phone out you can use that QR code it'll get you to the main page of the Texas bed support website and I think that um all of these resources all the links will be available to you guys on the um main page following this presentation today um but I just wanted to share for the 2425 year we have some new resources that have come out starting around October um and let you guys take a little look at these we have first our um a task analysis form and so we had um seen a need out in the classrooms with our teachers that um they were looking for more um concrete ways that
014they could take a look at their task analysis so what we have here is data collection form that they can use and we are working right now on a video that will support this task analysis form that will um show teachers how they can use it for academic skills as well as functional skills the videos were looking to have out in the next two months um so just be on the lookout for those once we have the task analysis form developed we realized that um another issue that we were seeing a lot is um teachers wanting to know how they could collect grades that were meaningful in their classrooms with students with um complex needs so we developed this sample grading rubric that teachers can use so it's based on the task analysis form that
015um that I showed you on the previous slide um um but this takes things a little bit further so Educators mostly will find this useful for students who are participating in um prerequisite level tees and uh a lot of the information on the website leading to this grading rubric uses the same verbiage that you might see in the stall alternate to participation requirements um and it may help as another justification um piece when you're looking at those star alternate um participation requirements but this uh we use all of the same prompt and score codes that you you saw on the task analysis form but additionally this has a um um a formula at the bottom that you can't see here but if you go to the website you'll see that where you can take all
016of the um score codes are related to points and you can get an academic grade for the Gradebook for um tasks within the classroom and we have something else that's coming soon that will go along with this and I'll show you um once I show you everything else that we already have up we have added a student preference survey um and this you can see is good to um find things that are reinforcing for our students in the classroom either for a participation in academic tasks or also for communication um and you will notice too with some of the resources that I'm talking about with complex needs they're not limited to our students with complex access needs they're good for all of our students so um don't feel like if you're sharing these with your
017teachers that they only need to go to a certain few they can go out to all of them and and they can um they can all find them helpy we also have a family survey um this one is available on the website in both English and Spanish for your teachers to um send home to families to gather information um that they can use for developing their iip and also when they're planning activities um within their classroom this one uh was long anticipated from many of our ESC trainers and coaches I know and we've received a lot of feedack back from um classroom teachers about how helpful this hierarchy of queuing and prompting a sheet is and you might remember it from a similar version from the Star alternate to from years ago um what we've
018done is we've updated this with new pictures we've taken out the star alternate 2 language because this really isn't geared towards assessment but it's geared towards everyday um everyday classroom use and so we've provided that for our teachers to um look at the hierarchy and we have information for them too you can see that we're looking at going from least invasive um supports and then being able to fade as necessary um just yesterday we have five data collection forms that went live and these also again are not limited to our students with complex needs and um these were kind of a combination between myself and Nathan and some other people that we got together to look at data collection forms um and what we needed to have out there available for teachers maybe if they're
019on the run if we have long-term Subs if we have new pair Professionals in the classroom and we just need to be able to pull um quick data collection forms we have these available for them for um ABC recording for frequency recording trial by trial duration recording and then also interval recording and each one of these we will have a corresponding um show me video that will um they're going to be quick two to three minute videos that will show what this looks like in the classroom what it looks like to document on these forms so we can have our um service providers take a look at those real quick and then go to the classroom and they're ready to roll with the data collection and then finally up and coming and this should be
020um this this grading rubric scenario is in the last stages and it should be up on our website um within the next few weeks um but this is going back to the grading rubric scenario that I talked to you about at the beginning um and when we were going through the process of putting that together getting feedback from um our our ESC trainers and coaches from teachers in classrooms of students with complex needs one of the things that that we know was going to be a struggle is looking at how we can use that grading rubric for students in your classroom for the same teque when you have students with um that are on multiple um accessing the curriculum through M um different I'm sorry I just lost all of my words through different access
021points so this is looking at the vertical alignment that we use for Star alternate 2 and it will take you through a story of Mr Broden and he has two students that are in seventh grade and one of them is accessing at a seventh grade level one of them is accessing at a 18 to 24 month instructional level and we look at the vertical alignment for a seventh grade teak to see how we can um meet the needs of the student through this Ela te um individually for each student and so we look at task analysis using the grading rubric for an activity with the book The Lightning Thief and um it's fantastic as soon as this comes out it will go to all of our ESC trainers and coaches they we have several that
022are ready to turn this around to courses um to provide training for our teachers but if you would like to get in touch with them they would be a great person to talk to about it um you can also reach out to us and then um we will have videos that will follow the grading rubric scenario even further as we move into um our upcoming year and I think from complex needs Anna that is all I have well thank you Lindsay and that's a lot of updates to resources thank you for that reminder too that these resources are for all students it's not limited to those with complex needs so I appreciate you giving us that reminder so thank you um so we have Mandy and Dawn here to share some more updates with you
023I'm G turn it over to you Mandy okay great thanks hi everyone my name is Mandy young I'm a special education technical assistance um manager and I oversee a grant called uh the uh child Pine early to exit IEP support Grant um and I have Don jeel with me Don would you like to come off mute hi good afternoon everyone um I have the privilege of working on this team and we have been very busy uh either updating uh resources to align with uh Texas administ straight of code or uh creating new ones for your use and we hope you find them helpful thanks on and I pulled up this aligned conference because um and can and is everybody seeing my screen okay Anna can you see it yes we can see it I just
024wanted because Nathan talked about the autism conference it's awesome conference please go to the autism conference I'm also um want to shout out this a line conference it is open and can be reg you can register today just look on the Texas fed support website that Lindsay shared that QR code thank you Lindsay and um check out aligned 2025 you can register here um the audience is for educational diagnosticians evaluation staff um speech language Pathologists lots of different lots of different special education staff and it's a virtual conference and I just want to point out that it is free so please check it out um okay I'm going to go over to this uh presentation so this is the grant that we have it through but like I like everyone has said before this is
025for all students it's not just for the student send this grant I'm just pointing it out that it was the Grant on um throughout this this presentation you'll see these little icons um I have a guidance document we're going to share the guidance document tea learn asynchronous training uh videos and synchronous training only um there's some bunch of different acronyms I'm sure you know most of these already but I'm just going to include them um one of the ones that I am including is this TSS that is the Texas sped support website because that is where all of these are posted um just like Nathan and uh Lindsay were talking about um here's a list of the currently updated new or published that this grant has has pushed out just this year 2425 and we
026have so many more that are coming um that I'm not going to talk about today but um but these are are the ones that are currently posted um and I just have them all on one slide um you should have received this uh slide deck as a PDF so you you can click on any of these links right here um the first one that we have is this big update I put it in capital letters because it is enormous it went from what 27 Pages done to like how many like 54 or something and almost double 57 oh 57 yeah I mean it's it just is uh excellent guidance um and I'm going to just show you really quickly what that looks like on here uh guidance for the comprehensive evaluation of specific learning disabilities
027it has the same cover but like we said it is much longer and um Don and I are actually going to jump on what date da I believe it's March 13th 13th and uh we're gonna go through this and and talk through what was updated um what was updated and what was just a a quick change we're going to go over what the ch changes were and the new and added information um the next thing on my list is this awesome uh oh this is the who transfer in out of state the next thing on my list was the uh developmental delay quick guide um that is down here that's what I was thinking about the students with disabilities you transfer in state and out of state quick guide is brand new as well and
028is published on Texas sped support it's an excellent resource um for you to go to and check out all of the the regulations regarding those procedures for students that are new to the Lea because they transferred from outside or from inside the state of Texas um another thing that has been updated is the child find Duty course this course is I think about an hour and a half a credit thanks and um it is on tea learn this link goes straight to the TSS website and then you from there you can click on the go to course and it goes to this excellent course it gives you all of that uh updat for for child find regulations and then this one was the one that I was excited about the developmental delay quick guide and
029FAQ we're getting lots of questions about developmental delay and this one has some pretty good questions on it so I'm just going to click it because I'm going to show you but this is the other guidance that we are going to go over on the 13th so developmental delay and the sld guide we're we're going to um talk about talk through um this this talks about elig eligibility definition um it goes through what that is um for developmental delay evaluation procedures and then also um has some really cool like frequently asked questions these are the questions that we are receiving here at tea um mostly about what is developmental delay and how how are we going to navigate for those students with non-categorical um okay the next uh deliverable we have is the special education
030inform formed con module with a quick guide video so this has both a video camera and a quick guide to it um this again is updated based on the the ledge uh changes that happened a couple years ago uh we have best practices for conducting a virtual art committee meeting that was video that was uh published um and it has some issues about best practices in conducting virtual um art committee meetings um so that one's a good one um the next guidance is special education referral for initial evaluation quick guide this was updated in November of 24 and it just summarizes procedures for receiving special education referrals um for initial evaluation to determine if that student has a disability so it's an excellent resource um to to review when you're getting those special education referrals
031for initial evaluation and then the special education informed consent quick guide which uh it's a reminder for important for resources for leas to consider for obtaining informed consent for evaluation and we know that you guys have tons of those so yeah um the next one we have is guidelines when considering initial referral for special education for emerging bilingual students it's a response form um for the student data review guide this would be excellent for those students that are going through referral process that are EB um students um the F timeline and FAQ was also updated this year um and as well as the initial referral timeline in FAQ uh these two are are excellent for when you need to pull it out and talk to a parent about hey we're having this art right now
032and uh this means that your child's evaluation will be due on X date and you can kind of talk through these scenarios um the last uh one on this list is the navigating the S SP process for students with dyslexia synchronous training so this one is offered only synchronous right now um it is not on tea learn however if you have people that are interested in in taking this you can do it in face tace and there's a a a link there that says evaluation contacts on TSS so when you click on that link it'll take you to uh a page actually I'll just show you quick um it will take you to this page that has all of the Statewide contact contacts for evaluation um and so you can look at whatever region you're
033in and then find out the person's name and they have their contact information here so if you were in region um 11 you can contact Amy and have her uh her number in um email here and ask her about when can I take this navigating course um that is a way to do it let me go back here okay and then uh we had a ton to update in dyslexia so uh dyslexia uh Texas leymy were available in person last year this year they are up all six of them are up on tea learn as asynchronous courses um and there's a link to those there uh this this is part of that uh requirement for the evaluation when dyslexia is suspected um so in addition to the parent and the team that's qualified under idea
034and that MDT you have to have at least one member that's has specific knowledge regarding the reading process and dyslexia and Related Disorders um and if they don't hold licensed uh dyslexia therapist license or the most advanced dyslexia related certification issued by that Association recognized by the State Board of Education then um then the the third option is that you can take the Texas dyslexia cies or we are very soon coming out with that s guide that I shared at the very beginning that Don and I are going to go over on the 13th um that will be turned into a tea learn course as well um and we hope to have that one come out out very very soon so please uh please be looking for it but that that person if they're not
035a if they're not an ldt or if they're not hold the most advanced dyslexia rated certification they can take the Texas dyslexia acmy um and as well as that sld course that's coming out very very soon um and uh then also just document that that member has training and that current research and they can serve on the MDT so uh that's really important the next one I just put the links from the tea dyslexia and Related Disorders web page because almost all of these were updated we updated the handbook the handbook has an FAQ in it at the end of it um we also have uh this parent form what is it yeah dyslexia Related Disorders information for parents um that is required by 7428 which um is very easy for you to to download
036and fill out and have for parents about dyslexia and then uh the S SP process training for Teachers Tea learn course which is offered asynchronously and synchronously um this is not posted yet it says new we're currently adding a case study for slps um in this way uh the SLP that takes the SB process training for teachers course can apply for Tisha credit for the course and that is coming very soon I thought um I thought maybe it would be up by now but it's not but it will be very soon coming up um Don is there anything else that I need to add about that sbip process training teach for teachers course I don't think so just that there was a speech impairment like case study that's added so okay we do oh we
037do offer coaching and we encourage you to take advantage of that it's for free it's free and it's great coaching um okay and then lastly coming soon these are not out not not update updated yet but the links say current guidance these are all our excellent technical assistance um guides and these are taking us a while to update we are um child find is the closest and then IEP developments close behind and them behavior um but please be looking for those very soon to be updated on Texas bed support and then the last thing that we have that is almost out it's very close keep your eyes open for it is the parentally placed private school children with disabilities quick guide which um will be very helpful for uh for leas in answering those questions
038about privately placed students and that's I think that's all I have let's see yep that's all I have quick question Mandy on that where you had the current link so when those are updated because I will get the um the slide decks posted when the recording's posted so everyone will have the slide deck from Lindsay and Mandy with all of the hyperlinks in there um but if they go to like the current um where the behavior information is when it's updated that same link will be where the updated information is correct Mandy that is absolutely correct and that's one of the reasons why I love TSS the Texas sped support site because we can just um update and it'll be the same link Perfect all right well lots of good resources to share and we'll
039have the recording as well as those slide decks posted as soon as possible so we really appreciate you guys joining us this afternoon um have a good safe afternoon and you'll hear you'll see all the information on the website soon thank you everyone appreciate it