Special Education Form Updates

We recently added two additional "acknowledgement of receipt” sections to some of our Special Education forms:

• LIDDA information
• Receipt of FIE

LIDDA Information link

According to the TEA, Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authority (LIDDA) information must be provided to the parents of students with either an Intellectual Disability or a Developmental Delay at the Initial ARD.

An additional section has been added to Section 15 of the Individualized Education Program, Section 11 of the Services Plan, and Section 9 of the Transfer Student Comparable Services Agreement that includes LIDDA resources, a place to document local LIDDA information, and a signature field so parents can sign off that they’ve received this information.

For initial IEPs with a start date on or after 10/13/25, it will be required to add this section for applicable students.

The fields in this section to provide local LIDDA information match the fields in the Connecting to Community Supports document that would need to be filled out by the district. Rather than providing the information in the PDF, information can be added directly in the IEP, potentially using a district bank.

Receipt of FIE link

According to the TEA, a copy of the written Full Initial Individual Evaluation (FIIE) must be provided to the parents as soon as possible after it has been completed and no later than five days prior to the initial ARD.

In order to document when a copy of the FIIE was provided to the parents, there is now an additional section in Section 15 of the Individualized Education Program and Section 11 of the Services Plan that can be included where parents can acknowledge when they received a copy.

This section is not specific to Initial FIE’s and can also be used to document receipt of an FIE that was done for a reevaluation, if it’s required based on district policy.

If the FIE was shared with the parents electronically, the Document History panel in the FIE can also be used to show when a copy of the document was provided to the parents.