Winter 2008 Table of Contents
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Updated IDEA Manual Now Available

Key Words: blindness, visual impairment, disability, special education, IDEA, Advocacy Incorporated, The Arc of Texas, It’s a New IDEA,

The newly updated August 2007 version of our Parent Manual, It’s a New IDEA: The Manual for Parents and Students About Special Education Services in Texas (both the English version and Spanish version) is now available online on this website <www.advocacyinc.org/handoutEducation.cfm>, as well as on the website of the Arc of Texas <www.thearcoftexas.org>. Anyone is welcome to download and reproduce the online version.

The new manual incorporates changes in the IDEA made by Congress in 2004, the Federal regulations that went into effect in October 2006 and state law changes from the 2007 Texas legislative session. The Texas Education Agency issued new rules that went into effect November 11, 2007. We have referenced the proposed rules in the manual and directed readers to the TEA web site, <www.tea.state.tx.us/special.ed> for specific language of the rules and TEA Guidance documents.

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