General Guidance
Compliance To Do List (Monthly)
- End of Year 2020 - The Part B Compliance 2019-20 Year-end To-Do List can be found on DESE’s COVID-19 webpage under the Special Education Information & Guidance tab.
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- Compliance To Do List Archives
Compliance Myths
- Observations (March 2020)
- Meeting Notifications (February 2020)
- Related Services (January 2020)
- Independent Educational Evaluation-IEE (November 2019)
- IEP Team (October 2019)
- Parental Consent (September 2019)
- Speech Implementer Model (August 2019)
- Compliance Myths Archives
- Missouri Accommodations Manual for Instruction and Assessment
- Adapted Physical Education
- Alternative Methods of Instruction Guidance
- Alternate Assessment (MAP-A)
- Caseload Guidance (See State Plan for Special Education - Regulation VII, page 115)
- Discipline
- Discipline Process Flowchart (revised 10/17/2017)
- Discipline Decision Maker Chart (under construction)
- Discipline of Students Identified as IDEA Eligible or Suspected of Having a Disability Under IDEA (Flow Chart D1)
- Discipline of Students Not Yet Identified as IDEA Eligible (Flow Chart D2)
- Dispute Resolution Memo and Q&A-07/23/2013
- Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)
- Early Intervening Services (EIS)
- Use of Funds/ Early Intervening Services (EIS)
- Educational Decision Maker FAQs
- Educational Surrogate
- ELL and Special Education
- Extended School Year Recommendation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Grading, Awarding Credit and Graduation for Students with Disabilities (under construction)
- IDEA 2004: OSEP Q&A
- IDEA 2004 Professional Development Series
- Juvenile Justice System
- Juvenile Detention Facilities
- MAP-A (Alternate Assessment)
- Memorandum of Understanding - Early Head Start and First Steps
- MOCAP and Special Education FAQ
- Non-Regulatory Guidance on the IDEA Part B Regulations Regarding Parental Consent for the Use of Public Benefits or Insurance Q&A
- Notice of Action
- Special Education ListServe (SELS) message sent September 17, 2008 regarding Written Notice/Guidance from OSEP.
- DESE's letter to OSEP regarding written notice
- OSEP's Response
- Occupational Therapy & Physical Therapy Guidelines
- OSEP Topic Brief
- Paraprofessionals (March 2012)
- Parent's Guide to Special Education in Missouri (May 2018)
- Parents' Rights Under IDEA webinar (July 2017)
- Placements for Special Education
- Procedural Safeguards
- Professional Development Series
- Rehabilitation Services for the Blind
- Response to Intervention (3-Tiered Models of Intervention)
- Guidelines
- Guidance
- Section 504: Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Reviewed 12/27/2012 (Under Revision)
- Sound System Disorder Eligibility Criteria
- Special Education/English Language Learners (ELL) Webinar Series
- Special Education Placements
- Speech Implementer Model
- Speech Language Pathologist-Assistant (SLP-A)
- Standards & Indicators
- State Normative Data for Sound System Disorder
- State Performance Plan
- Status of Statewide Electronic IEP System
- Technical Assistance Bulletins
- Three-Tiered Models (RtI) [Link to be added]
- Transition
- Use of Funds/ Early Intervening Services (EIS)
- Webstreams
