LEA Notification at 30 months AND after 30 months
Parents of children who are potentially eligible for Part B services are informed that IDEA allows
disclosure minimal personally identifiable information at child's age 30 months to the Local Education
Agency (LEA) (Anchorage School District, Chugach School District, Lake and Penn School District) and
State Education Agency (SEA). Parents may opt out of ILP notifying the LEA at any time, however, after
30 months if the family has not opted out, an automated notification will have occurred. The purpose of
the disclosure is to notify the LEA and SEA of the child’s potential eligibility for special education and/or
related services. Minimally personally identifiable information is defined as the child’s name and date of
birth and parents’ name, address, and telephone number. If a parent has not chosen to opt out,
notification to the LEA must occur not fewer than 90 days before and up to 9 months before the child’s
third birthday. THE NOTIFCATION ONLY OCCURS AFTER ENROLLMENT
Prior to 30 months:
Every parent is informed of their right to opt out of the LEA and SEA notification.
Providers only take additional action if a family chooses not to refer their child for Part B
services, the provider requests the parent complete the opt out form in RainTree.
Note: Parents may change their minds and choose to opt in to notification after 30 months. The
provider will email admin@picak.org to let admin know that the family has changed their mind.
After 30 months:
When parents decline notification or further notification, the ILP will contact the LEA and notify
that the parent has declined further LEA involvement.
Providers will document the date that the opt-out discussion occurred with the family in the
child’s RT record using the opt out form. Parents will be informed that since they did not opt out
by 30 months, the ILP sent minimally personally identifiable information to the LEA.
Hot Tip: Children who are close to 33 months at the time of enrollment are at particular risk for
being missing notification to the school district. A child who is referred after 33 months is in an
exempt status, releasing the LEA from timeline obligations, and children are at risk of further l
ate enrollment to Part B services.
Note: The date of notification of the child’s potential eligibility for special education will serve as
the referral date to the LEA
Provider
In RT Admin tab with all signature forms, choose the ASD Opt Out patient signature form/packet:
This is what it looks like to the parent:
If the parent doesn’t check the box, a message will appear on the right corner of the screen ‘Required fields are missing’:
Then a Task is automatically created for the admin team and they will opt the child out in the state database:
Admin
After a provider has discussed ASD Opt Out with a family, they will sign an ASD Opt
Out form. Once that form is signed, a task will automatically be generated to Group
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2. Go to that child’s State Database chart and under the Child tab, click Edit and
scroll down to the School District portion, then check the EED Opt Out box (shown
below). DO NOT ENTER A DATE in the LEA Notification box.
3. Once box is checked in the State Database, mark that task complete and make a
note of the opt out in our ongoing SDB task
ASD LEA Notification Report: /sites/default/files/program-guidelines/AdminProcedure-ASDLEANotificationReport.pdf
ASD Opt Out Automated Email Reminder: /sites/default/files/program-guidelines/AdminProcedure-AutomateASDOptOutEmailReminder.pdf