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The track at Scott Johnson Middle School will be closed for the summer for maintenance. It will reopen at the beginning of the school year.
Child Find
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) – Birth to Age 3
If you have a child from age birth to 3 years old, Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) agencies provide services to children from birth to their 3rd birthday for learning, speech, behavior, or other delays. Your child’s school and ECI agencies provide services for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, have a visual impairment, and/or have deaf blindness. To find your local ECI agency, click the links below and contact the appropriate representative.
Link to Make an ECI Referral: ECI Referral
Link for Additional Info: Early Childhood Intervention Services
Child Find – McKinney ISD
Are you concerned that your child or a child in our community has a disability and needs special education support and services? McKinney Independent School District is ready, willing, and able to identify and serve all children with disabilities residing within jurisdiction who need special education and related services. McKinney ISD’s child find process seeks to identify, locate, evaluate, and serve individuals with disabilities from birth to 21 years of age, who reside within McKinney ISD.
Identifying your child as a student with a disability is a significant event for your child and your family, necessitating a comprehensive full and individual evaluation. If you suspect that your child may have a disability, please contact your child’s teacher or MISD campus administrator to learn about the next steps in the evaluation process. If an assessment is recommended, parental consent would be obtained, and the assessment is provided at no cost to the parent.
The district’s child find duties also extend to students with disabilities who are within the MISD jurisdiction and are placed in private or home-school by their parents. This includes highly mobile students entitled to an Individual Education Plan (IEP) such as migrant and homeless students, school-age individuals with disabilities attending private schools and home schools, school-age individuals with disabilities residing in nursing facilities or other residential facilities, Texas State Health and Human Services group homes, or Texas Juvenile Justice Department group homes located within McKinney ISD.
If you are in need of assistance or have questions about the child find evaluation process through McKinney ISD, please contact Megan Fulwiler at (469) 302-6337 or at [email protected]. McKinney ISD is ready, willing, and able to support families and/or answer questions about the McKinney ISD child find process.
Child Find Resources
Steps to Requesting a Child Find Evaluation:
(Home or Private School Students)
Families interested in submitting a child find evaluation request, who are currently residing in or attending a private school or homeschool within McKinney ISD’s boundaries, must follow the steps below:
Step 1: Home Campus Locator/Child Find Request Form
Determine your child’s McKinney ISD home campus by accessing the MISD School Locator link below. The school locator will provide you with an elementary, middle, and high school home campus.
Click the link: MISD School Locator
Next, completed the Child Find Request form below that is most appropriate for your student’s age at the time of the request. Once you have submitted your request form, you will receive a submission response that includes the program approval code to use for step 2, which is the submission of the Child Find Registration/Enrollment form.
Birth to 5 Years Old
Complete the form: Birth to 5 Years Old – Child Find Request
5 Years to 21 Years Old
Complete the form: 5 Years to 21 Years Old – Child Find Request
Step 2: Child Find Registration/Enrollment
The next step is to complete the McKinney ISD’s PowerSchool Registration information.
Helpful Tips for Child Find Registration
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- When prompted select – “Child Find” as the program that you are registering for.
- Enter the Program Approval Code given to you by the Special Populations Department (hint: Child Find Request Form submission)
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Click here to enter program code for 2024-25 Child Find registration (English)
Click here to enter program code for 2024-25 Child Find registration (Spanish)
Step 3: Data Collection & Home Campus Collaboration
Once you have completed the steps above and submitted the requested forms, you will receive an email from the McKinney ISD Child Find Representative, Megan Fulwiler. The email will include a list of forms that will need to be completed and returned to the MISD home campus representative; this home campus representative will be in contact with you to schedule your student’s required vision and hearing screener and give you an opportunity to submit the requested forms.
Step 4: Response to Evaluation Request
Once all requested paperwork has been returned to the McKinney ISD home campus representative and the student has completed the vision and hearing screeners, you will be contacted by a McKinney ISD referral representative to explain the following steps of the consent process.
Proportionate Share
Students who have already been determined as eligible for special education services and are home-schooled or attend a private school within the district’s boundaries, may be eligible for special education or related services through the district’s proportionate share plan. Each spring McKinney ISD solicits input from parents and private schools regarding the development of the district’s proportionate share plan. For more information about the district’s proportionate share plan, or the solicitation of information please contact Marcie Waligura at 469-302-6352 or at [email protected].
A virtual meeting about proportionate share services will be held on June 24, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. If you are interested in obtaining more information and/or providing input regarding these services please RSVP here and a Teams link will be sent to you.