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OSEP GUIDANCE LETTERS
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LEAP 2025 Accommodations and Accessibility Features User Guide
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Guidance & Policy Letters
The US Department of Education occasionally issues “Dear Colleague” letters as guidance to clarify miscommunications and/or trends in special education that is causing numerous complaints or failure to follow the law as intended. A list of these letters are below:

• Access to Records – September 23, 2016
• Braille – June 19, 2013
• Bullying of Students with Disabilities – August 20, 2013
• Bullying of Students with Disabilities – October 26, 2010
• Bullying of Students with Disabilities – July 25, 2000
• Children with Disabilities Attending Virtual Schools – August 5, 2016
• Children with Disabilities residing in Nursing Home – April 26, 2016
• Children with Disabilities with High Cognition (Twice Exceptional) – April 17, 2015
• Children with Specific Learning Disabilities – October 23, 2015
• Communicating Needs of Students with Hearing, Vision, or Speech Disabilities – November 12, 2014
  Fact Sheet related to the above letter.
  Frequently Asked Questions to the above letter.
• Dispute Resolution Q & A – July 23, 2013
• Due Process After a Parent has Filed a State Complaint – April 15, 2015
• Due Process Hearing – Open to Public – August 4, 2016
• Education of Highly Mobile Children (i.e. Migrant, Military, Homeless) – July 19, 2013
• Endrew F. v Douglas County Schools – U.S. Supreme Court Decision Q & A – December 7, 2017
• Ensuring Equity and Providing Behavioral Supports to Students with Disabilities – August 1, 2016
  Summary for Stakeholders in regards to above letter.
• FAPE for All Children with Disabilities – November 16, 2015
• FAPE for Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities – December 5, 2014
• FAPE for Students with Disabilities in Residential Facilities – December 8, 2014
• Federal Pell Grant Eligibility for Students Confined – December 8, 2014
• IEP Team – Bringing an Attorney – February 17, 2016
• Independent Educational Evaluation – October 22, 2016
• Maintenance of Effort – July 27, 2015
• National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard – June 22, 2012
• Part C Evaluations (Birth to 3 years of age) – August 18, 2016
• Parental Rights Regarding Use of Public Benefits or Insurance – June 11, 2013
• Preschool Least Restrictive Environment – January 9, 2017
• Preschool Least Restrictive Environment – February 29, 2012
• Procedural Safeguards – Communication with Parent Attorney – December 27, 2016
• Racial Discrimination in Special Education – December 12, 2016
• Response to Intervention (RTI) – January 21, 2011
• Response to Intervention (RTI) for Preschool Special Education – April 29, 2016
• Restraint and Seclusion of Students with Disabilities Letter – December 28, 2016
• Speech and Language Services for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder – July 6, 2015
• Transportation for Students with Disabilities Privately Placed by Parent – December 27, 2016
• Visual Impairment Criteria – November 12, 2014
• Visual Impairment Follow-up from Visual Impairment Criteria on 11-12-14 – May 22, 2017

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