Forms
This site includes forms designed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to ensure that students with disabilities receive a free, appropriate, public education. Forms are available for the Infant-Toddler/Early Intervention, Preschool/Early Intervention, and School-age programs, and include both annotated and non-annotated versions. Forms are available as Word and pdf documents.
Bureau of Special Education Complaint Form
Access the State Complaint Form and State Complaint Resolution Procedures on PDE’s Special Education Dispute Resolution page. This webpage also contains the State Complaint Form translated into other languages.
If you need more information about the complaint process or if you are unable to print the packet and would like to receive a complaint form by mail, please contact the Special Educaton ConsultLine at 1-800-879-2301, ConsultLine@odr-pa.org or submit an online request.
IEP in Braille
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Effective Date:7/1/2018 10:17:14 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Indonesian
Effective Date:7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Italian
Effective Date:7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Russian
Effective Date:7/1/2018 9:41:03 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Spanish
Effective Date:7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Ukranian
Effective Date:7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Urdu
Effective Date:7/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This revised Procedural Safeguards Letter (with a footer indicating “July 2018 Revisions”) replaces the current Procedural Safeguards Letter dated July 1, 2008. This revised letter includes a change in terminology that replaces the term “mental retardation” with the term “intellectual disability.” This change also aligns the Commonwealth’s special education regulations in Chapter 14 to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) regulatory revisions resulting from Rosa’s Law. There are no other changes to the current regulations in Chapter 14 or 711.
Age:School Age
Language:Vietnamese
Effective Date:4/28/2025 11:23:44 AM
The Procedural Safeguards Notice includes a full explanation of rights available to parents of a school age child with a disability when their child has been referred for or is receiving special education services. This model form provides a format that LEAs may choose to use to provide information about procedural safeguards to parents. This revised Procedural Safeguards Notice includes updated contact information and the Bureau of Special Education Complaint Information Packet and Form.
Age:School Age
Language:English
Effective Date:4/28/2025 12:00:00 AM
The Procedural Safeguards Notice includes a full explanation of rights available to parents of a school age child with a disability when their child has been referred for or is receiving special education services. This model form provides a format that LEAs may choose to use to provide information about procedural safeguards to parents. This revised Procedural Safeguards Notice includes updated contact information and the Bureau of Special Education Complaint Information Packet and Form.
Age:School Age
Language:Bengali
Effective Date:6/15/2022 8:25:35 AM
Procedural Safeguards Notice translated to Haitian Creole
Age:School Age
Language:Haitian Creole