ESY Links

Many of the publications are in pdf format. You can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR SERVICES (ESY) PARENT TRAINING GUIDE (Download a Powerpoint presentation of this training guide)
EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR SERVICES (ESY) WORKSHOP BACKGROUND ON IDEA AND THE IEP PROCESS 2002 (Download a Powerpoint presentation of this workshop)

Florida Department of Education ESY Resources:

Technical Assistance Paper 2002-1, “Documenting the Amount of Special Education and Related Services on the Individual Education Plan”

http://www.firn.edu/doe/commhome/y2002-1.pdf

Other ESY Resources

Summaries of ESY Caselaw:

http://www.ppmd.org/publications/extended_school_year.html

Text of Reusch v. Fountain:

http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/
case_esy_reusch_fountain.htm

Wrights Law ESY Topic Page:

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/esy.index.htm

Text of Lawyer v. Chesterfield (a 6-year old boy with autism)

http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/caselaw/case_Lawyer_Chesterfield_ESY_autism.html

Federal ESY Summaries:

http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed321503.html

Legal and Practical Considerations for Extended School Year Services:

http://www.usu.edu/mprrc/ESY.htm

Virginia Coalition for Students with Disabilities, Legal Advocacy Center; Analyzing Extended school year Services: Quotes from Court Decisions Defining ESY Standards

http://www.virginialac.org/pdf/ESYAnalysis.pdf

ESY Summaries from Other States

(Note: All of these cite IDEA, but some of these include state laws that may not be valid in all states.)

Arizona Center for Disability Law Protection and Advocacy System for Arizona: EXTENDED SCHOOL YEAR SERVICES A SELF-ADVOCACY GUIDE

http://www.acdl.com/pdfs/SE9.pdf

Arizona State University West

http://coe.west.asu.edu/ecd/raven9.htm

Indiana Department of Education (Very informative, provides several excellent examples)

http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/exceptional/
speced/pdf/ExtendSchYearServ.pdf

Iowa Department of Education

http://www.state.ia.us/educate/ecese/cfcs/idea/esy.html

The ARC of Maryland (Good discussion of required procedures, advocacy and data collection.)

http://www.thearcmd.org/Programs/Education_%20Committee/ extended_school_year_services.htm

Concord, Massachusetts Special Education Page

http://www.concordspedpac.org/ESY.html

Montana Office of Public Instruction

http://www.metnet.state.mt.us/SpecialEdu/00011276-80000007/AEF1F8C5-3B9ACA00-00D249E8.1/ESY%20guide%20Aug%202002.pdf

Nebraska Department of Education

http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SPED/iepproj/review/ext.html

New Jersey

http://www.state.nj.us/njded/specialed/esy/esy2.htm

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction

http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/speced/guide/esyglins.pdf

South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs

http://www.state.sd.us/deca/Special/forms/sdguidelines/extend.htm

Virginia Department of Education

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/Sped/ESYdoc.pdf

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/een/bul96-01.html

Minnesota Disability Law Center

http://www.mnlegalservices.org/publications/
MDLC%20Fact%20Sheets/extyear.html

Oklahoma

http://www.insource.org/ESY-Info.htm#Criteria

Wisconsin Department of Education

http://www.cesa7.k12.wi.us/sped/issues-esy/esymemo.html

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IDEA Final Regulations, web-enhanced version

http://www.ideapractices.org/idearegsmain.htm

Download IDEA '97 Final Regulations:

http://www.ideapractices.org/lawandregs.htm

From the Office of Special Education Programs, the federal IDEAcompliance and monitoring reports for Florida

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/
Monitoring/OSEPMonitoringReports.html

National Information center for Youth and Children with Disabilities (NICHY)

http://www.nichcy.org/

NICHY Personal Responses to Your Specific Questions--Information specialists are available to speak with you about your area of interest or concern. Call NICHY at 1-800-695-0285, or e-mail nichcy@aed.org.

An explanation of Related Services from NICHY:
http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/newsdig/nd16.htm

NICHY Publications Index (articles for download):
http://nichcy.org/publist.htm

Parental Advocacy Material

Wright’s Law (Includes Advocacy and Law Libraries)

http://www.wrightslaw.com/

Reed Martin Special Education Law and Advocacy Strategies (Particularly helpful on 504 issues)

http://www.reedmartin.com/specialeducationarticles.html

Reference Material

Dictionary: For Parents of Children with Disabilities

http://www.usd.edu/cd/dictionary/

Special Education Acronyms and Abbreviations

http://ericec.org/fact/acronyms.html