Eligibility Decision Tab - IDEA

If you are documenting Eligibility Determination for an IDEA referral, the Eligibility Decision tab will look like this:

1. Eligibility Criteria Worksheet  - Use the Eligibility Criteria Worksheet to guide the Student Team to a consensus about the student's eligibility for services. Criteria must not be pre-selected before the conference is convened. You may consider as many eligibility categories as appropriate, but select only one.
    

   1. Use the drop-down list to select an Eligibility Criteria Worksheet (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder, Emotional Disability, Hard of Hearing). Eligibility Criteria descriptions prior to  July 19, 2010 will continue to show their original category names. *
      NOTE: If applicable, please read background and instructions for completing the Specific Learning Disabilities Worksheet.
       

   2. Click Add. The selected worksheet is displayed.

   3. Checkmark all areas that apply.

   4. Click OK to return to the Eligibility Worksheet screen, or click Cancel to return without saving your changes..

   5. In the Worksheet Criteria Name box, you may highlight a worksheet and either Open it or Delete it.
       

2. IDEA Eligibility Worksheet - Use the worksheet to record the team's decisions. NOTE: This area does not display if the Evaluation Worksheet is not appropriately completed.

   1. Student Meets Eligibility Requirements - Select Yes or No.

      1. If Yes, the next field will be displayed. Proceed to Step b.

      2. If No, the student is not eligible.

      NOTE: If there is an existing active IEP, it will become inactive upon rescission of eligibility.

   2. Select the Eligibility Category.
      NOTE: If Specific Learning Disabilities is selected, the SLD worksheet is subject to several prerequisites that must be met before the Eligibility Determination can be saved with a Filed Date. Note that the Filed Date is the date the Eligibility Determination Report is given to the parents.  

   3. If the worksheet is for a Reevaluation and the student's eligibility category has changed, select the Previous Eligibility Category (if changed). This list displays categories from both Chapter 56 and Chapter 60.

   4. If applicable, indicate whether the student has an Autism Spectrum Disorder (if not primary disability).
      
      Autism Spectrum Disorder includes:  eligibility category of Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or medical/DSM-IV diagnosis of Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Pervasive Developmental – Not Otherwise Specified, Rhett’s Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.

   
   

3. Eligibility Determination (text field) - In this field, enter the team's statement regarding the student's eligibility for services. This will be printed to the second part of the Evaluation Summary Report.
    

* Eligibility categories

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