 Overview
The Illinois State Board of Education partners with school districts
to provide programs and services for students with specialized educational
needs.
Special Education Services assures that these programs and services
meet state and federal requirements. This involves both compliance
and technical assistance functions. Compliance functions include
monitoring least restrictive environment compliance, administering
due process system, providing mediation services, conducting compliant
investigations, approving policies and procedures, conducting focused
and comprehensive reviews and approving nonpublic special education
facilities. Technical assistance functions involve providing information
and guidance on promising practices in educating students with disabilities,
including the operation of numerous statewide training and technical
assistance initiatives, administering the comprehensive system of
personnel development for special education and management of grant
programs to schools for special education service delivery.
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What's New
 Annual Special Education Directors’ Conference Registration (July 30-August 1, 2008 Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, Illinois)
IDEA
Part B Annual State Application
2006
Annual State Report on Special Education Performance
Focused
Monitoring Public Forum Dates - 2007–2008 School Year
Comparison of 23 Illinois Administrative Code Part 226 (June 28,
2007) to IDEA Regulations (August 3, 2006)
Response
to Intervention Presentation 
Workshops
and Conferences
Procedural
Guidance for School Districts Withdrawing from a Special Education
Joint Agreement 
Disproportionate
Representation
State
Regulations PowerPoint Training (updated 10/26/07)
Illinois State LEA Determinations
Presentation
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Summary of Performance
Required
Notice and Consent Forms (Arabic, English, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Gujarati) (Updated 1/08)
Notice of Procedural Safeguards
State Performance Plan,
Part B—Years 2005-2010 (Revised February 1, 2008 )
Annual Performance Report (February 1, 2008)
Exception to the 1.0 Percent
Cap on Progressing and Attaining Scores Based on Alternate Achievement
Standards to be Included in the Calculation of District AYP for
the 2007-08 School Year Request
Archived Guidance Documents
Topics A-Z. An alphabetical listing
of Topics AZ generated from Special Education Services.
Resources for Administrators.
Includes information on funding for special education programs,
Least Restrictive Environment, Corey H. news and updates, school
district policies, forms for special education, due process and
a listing of Directors of Special Education.
Resources for Teachers. Information
on the Individualized Education Program, special education certification
structure, regional safe schools programs, transition services,
class size/age range requirements, and other helpful resources.
Resources for Parents. Information
for parents on topics including early childhood special education,
Project CHOICES, parent training, and links to the document A Parent’s
Guide – The Educational Rights of Students with Disabilities
in English and Spanish.
Special Education Categories.
The Special Education Categories site includes information,
research, resources, and best practices on the following program
areas: Deaf-Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing
Impairment, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic
Impairment, Other Health Impairment, Specific Learning Disability,
Speech/Language Impairment, Speech/Language Pathology Services,
Traumatic Brain Injury, and Visual Impairment.
Grant Information
Workshops
and Conferences
Technical Assistance Projects
- Assistive
Technology. Children with disabilities sometimes need and
are entitled to special equipment and services to ensure that
they have access to a free and appropriate education (FAPE).
- Illinois ASPIRE. Funded
by a five-year (2005-2010) State Personnel Development Grant under
Part D of IDEA 2004, Illinois ASPIRE (Alliance for School-based
Problem-solving and Intervention Resources in Education) will
establish and implement a coordinated, regionalized system of
personnel development that will increase the capacity of school
systems to provide early intervening services, aligned with the
general education curriculum, to at-risk students and students
with disabilities.
- Illinois
Service Resource Center. The Illinois Service Resource Center
is the coordination center for a wide variety of services tailored
specifically for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and
exhibit behavioral, emotional or mental health challenges.
- Positive
Behavior Intervention & Supports. PBIS is a proactive
systems approach for creating and maintaining safe and effective
learning environments in schools. PBIS in Illinois focuses on
data-based decision-making around discipline and academics at
school, district, regional and state levels, integrating related
school improvement initiatives and structures such as 21st Century,
Reading First, No Child Left Behind, and Safe Schools, and building
skills and therefore capacity of school-based leadership teams
through coaching and technical assistance.
- Project CHOICES.
The purpose of CHOICES/Early CHOICES is to increase the capacities
of school districts and educational personnel to educate and provide
supports and services to children and youth with disabilities
in the preschool, school, and community environments in which
they would participate if not identified as having a disability”
- Illinois Autism
Training and Technical Assistance Project. IATTAP focuses
on educating and supporting children with autism spectrum disorders
(ASD) and their families by building local capacity to establish
and implement effective educational supports and services in the
least restrictive environment for children with Autism Spectrum
Disorders.
- Parent and Educator Partnership.
This initiative provides support to parents of children with disabilities
to build equal partnerships with the educators who serve their
children. The primary goal of this initiative is to move families
and educators to a relationship that increases partnership to
meet the needs of the children who are their common focus.
- Project Reach.
Project Reach provides technical assistance, information, and
training to address the early intervention, special education,
related services, and transitional services needs of children
with deaf-blindness and enhance state capacity to improve services
and outcomes for children and their families.
- Secondary Transition. This web
page provides access to a great variety of resources, tools and
information related to secondary transition including, but not
limited to: an age-appropriate transition assessment, measurable
post-school goals, transition plan development, and linkages
to web resources that cover a range of topics related to secondary
transition. The Transition Outreach Training for Adult Living
(TOTAL) Project training modules and resources can also be accessed
here.
Complaint Investigation.
If informal talks with the school personnel do not resolve the conflict
and a parent/advocate believes that a more formalized action is
necessary, he/she may submit a signed, written complaint to the
Illinois State Board of Education.
Mediation. Illinois
mediation service, designed as an alternative to the due process
hearing, is a means of resolving disagreements regarding the appropriateness
of special education and related services.
Due Process
Advisory Boards/Councils
- Illinois
Interagency Coordinating Council. The Illinois
Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC) was established in 1990
by the Interagency Coordinating Council Act, 20 ILCS 3970 to facilitate
collaboration among state agencies and improve outcomes for youth
with disabilities.
- Illinois
Purchase Care Review Board. The purpose of the
Illinois Purchased Care Review Board is to review and approve
or disapprove the costs and set rates for nonpublic facilities.
- Illinois State Advisory
Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities
(ISAC). The role of the Illinois State Advisory Council on the
Education of Children with Disabilities is to be a proactive body,
advising the Governor, Legislature and the State Board of Education
on current issues relating to the education of children and youth
with disabilities. It is also the responsibility of this Council
to encourage new strategies and technologies, while advocating
high standards of excellence throughout Illinois.
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Resources
Regulations/Legislation
Division Contact Information
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