Royal School District

Services for birth to age three children and families are provided in the natural environment and allow more options for parents. For more information contact the Moses Lake Community Health Center at 509-765-5809 or the Columbia Basin Health Association at 509-488-5256.

• A small number of 3-4 year olds attend the school district special education preschool at Red Rock Elementary.
• For most of these 3 and 4 year olds, they also attend school at an integrated setting at the following sites:
  • District Preschool
  • Migrant
  • ECEAP

• Attend their attendance area elementary kindergarten class
• Receive support through in-class para-educators
• Resource room consultation
• Pull-out specially designed instruction
• Life Skills classroom

• A classroom located at Red Rock, Middle School, and High School
• Student exhibits academic difficulties and meet state/federal guidelines
• General education with special education through specially designed instruction in pullout or inclusion
• Instructional Programs:
  • Reading, writing, and/or math
  • Close communication with regular education for inclusion and/or alignment of skills, pacing, and expectations
  • Study skills and behavioral support as needed
  • Specialist service in motor, speech, and language services

• Red Rock Elementary
• Royal Middle School
• Instructional Programs:
  • Functional academic and daily living skills
  • Pre-vocational skills
  • Large and small groups, one to one

Students remain an extra year at elementary and remain at high school until 21 years old.

Child Find is a federally mandated program whose purpose is to locate and identify children from birth through twenty-one years of age who have disabilities that require special education and/or related services.

Screening is a free check of your child's development including:

• Large muscle development
• Eye-hand coordination (fine motor skills)
• Communication
• Concepts
• Personal-social skills
• Self-help skills

The purpose of the screen is to identify any factors that may interfere with your child's learning, growth, and development. The related screening is also provided to help parents identify their child's strengths and weaknesses and provide home suggestions.

During the screening, your child may stack small blocks, cut with scissors, draw, count, name colors, jump, and have fun! Following the screening, a trained professional will talk with you about the results of the screening. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions about your child’s development. You may be given home suggestions, referred for further testing, or be scheduled to have skills rechecked at a later date. The screening process usually takes about 45 minutes.

Any child, birth to age five, whose family or caregivers would like more information about their child’s development. All school districts within Washington State have Child Find screenings available. If your family is living in a temporary situation, you may contact the district where you are staying to attend a screening.

Any person who observes a child they suspect may have a disability may refer the child to the district for screening and possible assessment to determine eligibility.

• Child Find referral is given to the special programs department.
• The parent is invited to review the information.
• If the team, including the parent, determines an assessment is needed, parent written permission will be required.
• The assessment is conducted when parent permission is received.
• Parents meet with members of the assessment team to discuss the assessment results.
• If the team, including the parent, determines the child qualifies, an appropriate Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is developed.

Contact Patty Tapia, Special Education Secretary
509-346-2487
Royal School District
230 Wildflower St. NE
P.O. Box 486
Royal City, WA 99357

Learn more about Child Find requirements on the OSPI website.

• State and Federal laws govern the special education program through chapter 392-172 WAC (Washington Administrative Code)
• We provide a continuum of services from birth through the age 21

The Special Education policies and procedures, evaluations, IEP's, and any reports to IDEA are available to the public, upon request, by contacting the special services office at 509-346-2268 ext. 1460, or via email at hquigley@royalsd.org or ptapia@royalsd.org.

• Parent and Student Rights (Procedural Safeguards)
• http://www.k12.wa.us/SpecialEd/pubdocs/PS.pdf
• http://www.k12.wa.us/SpecialEd/pubdocs/PS_Spanish.pdf

Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

• Appropriate evaluation
• Individualized Education Program (IEP)
• Parent and Student participation in decisions
• Procedural Due Process
• Services to be provided by highly qualified individuals

• Developmentally Delayed
• Emotionally/Behaviorally Disabled
• Communication Disordered
• Orthopedically Impaired
• Specific Learning Disability
• Intellectually Impaired
• Multiple Disabilities
• Deafness
• Hearing Impairment
• Visually Impaired/Blindness
• Deaf/Blindness
• Autism
• Traumatic Brain Injury

You have the right to be informed by the school district of your rights under Section 504. This is a notice of you and your child's rights under Section 504 and the rights you have if you disagree with the school district's decision. 

Your child has the right to:

• Receive a free and appropriate public education.
• Participate in and benefit from the district's educational programs without discrimination.
• Be provided an equal opportunity to participate in the district's nonacademic and extracurricular activities.
• Be educated with students who do not have disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
• Be educated in facilities and receive services that are comparable to those provided to students without disabilities.
• Receive accommodations and/or related aids and services to allow your child an equal opportunity to participate in school activities.
• Receive educational and related aids and services without cost, except for those fees imposed on the parents of children without disabilities.
• Receive special education services if needed.

You have the right to:

• Review your child's educational records and to receive copies at a reasonable cost. You will not be charged if the cost would keep you from reviewing the records.
• Ask the district to change your child's education records if you believe that they are wrong, misleading, or are otherwise in violation of your child's privacy rights. If the district refuses this request, you have the right to challenge the refusal by requesting an impartial hearing.
• A response to your reasonable requests for explanations and interpretations of your child's education records.

Your child has the right to an evaluation before the school determines if he or she is eligible under Section 504. You have the right to:

• Receive notice before the district takes any action regarding the identification, evaluation, and placement of your child.
• Have evaluation and placement decisions made by a group of persons, often called a "504 team", including persons who know your child, the meaning of the evaluation information, and the placement options available.
• Have evaluation decisions based on a variety of sources, such as aptitude and achievement tests, teacher recommendations, physical conditions, medical records, and parental observations.
• Refuse consent for the initial evaluation and initial placement of your child.

If your child is eligible under Section 504, your child has a right to periodic re-evaluations, including re-evaluations before any significant change is made in your child's placement.

If you disagree with the district's decisions regarding your child's identification, evaluation, educational program, or placement under Section 504, you may request mediation or an impartial due process hearing. You and your child have the right to take part in the hearing and have an attorney represent you. Hearing requests and other concerns can be made to your district's Section 504 Coordinator:

Heather Quigley
Royal School District, Special Education Director
509-346-2487 ext. 1801

You have the right to file a complaint of discrimination with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), or to file a complaint in federal court. Generally, an OCR complaint may be filed within 180 calendar days of the act that you believe was discriminatory. The regional office is located at 915 Second Ave, Room 3310, Seattle, WA 98174-1099. Phone: 206-607-1600 TDD: 206-607-1647 Office for Civil Rights (OCR):

• Complete 504 Team Referral form.

• Does the 504 Team know or suspect that, because of disability, the student needs special education or related aids or services to participate in or benefit from school? (If yes, refer for Special Services)
• Provide parent with notice of rights.
• Obtain consent for initial evaluation
• Provide parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action.

• Evaluate the specific areas of the student's educational needs.

• Review evaluation results and determine eligibility.
• Complete the Eligibility Determination Form
• Provide parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights form.

• Develop a Section 504 Plan. May combine with eligibility meeting.
• Assign a case manager to monitor implementation and student progress.
• Provide parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of  
• Rights form and copy of Section 504 Plan.
• Obtain consent for initial placement.
• Distribute 504 Plan to necessary staff.

• Review and revise the student's Section 504 Plan.
• Provide parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights form.

• At least every three years. 
• Before any significant change in placement.
• Provide parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights.
   

Any person (e.g. a parent, guardian, school staff, or persons outside the school) can refer a student for evaluation under Section 504. A concerned person should refer a student for evaluation if the person knows or suspects that, due to a physical or mental impairment, the student needs special education or related aids or services to participate in or benefit from the district's education program. Referral can be made via a 504 Referral form.
 

The SAT reviews the referral, the student's file, and consults with teachers, parent or guardian, the student (if appropriate), and others who have relevant information. The 504 Team decides whether to evaluate the student under Section 504.

If the 504 Team knows or suspects that the student is eligible as a disabled student under the IDEA, is an English language learner, or has other needs, the

504 Team refers the student for evaluation under those processes.
If the 504 Team knows or suspects that the student is eligible as a disabled student under Section 504, the 504 Team provides the parents Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights and refers the student for evaluation. The parent or guardian must provide consent prior to an initial evaluation.

If the referral information indicates that the student is not eligible as a disabled student under Section 504, the 504 Team provides the parents Prior Written

Notice of Action and Notice of Rights.
 

After the parent or guardian has been notified of the decision to evaluate (and has consented if the evaluation is an initial evaluation), qualified persons evaluate the specific areas of the student's educational needs. The parent or guardian may also choose to have the student independently evaluated, at their own expense.

After the student has been evaluated, the student's Section 504 Team reviews the evaluation data and decides if the student is eligible as a disabled student under Section 504. At that time, the 504 Team fills out the Section 504 Eligibility Determination Form. The 504 Team must include persons knowledgeable about the student, the student's evaluation data, and placement options. In making its eligibility decision, the 504 Team must consider information from a variety of sources, including any relevant information submitted by the parent or guardian.

The student is eligible as a disabled student under Section 504 if the student has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. For a school aged student, the ability to participate in or benefit from a district's education program is a major life activity If the 504 Team determines that the student is eligible as a disabled student under Section 504, the 504 Team gives the parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights and the Team meets to develop a Section 504 Plan for the student.

If the 504 Team determines that the student is not eligible as a disabled student under Section 504, the 504 Team gives the parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights.

After a student is determined eligible under Section 504, the student's 504 Team meets to develop a Section 504 Plan for the student. The Section 504 Plan can be developed at the same time that eligibility is established. The Section 504 Plan describes what educational or related aids or services the student needs to receive a free appropriate public education. The 504 Team provides the parent Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights and a copy of the student's Section 504 Plan.

The parent or guardian must provide consent prior to an initial placement. The Section 504 Plan be distributed to all personnel responsible for carrying out the accommodations.
 

A student's 504 Team meets annually to review the student's Section 504 Plan to ensure that it is meeting the student's needs. If the Section 504 Team decides that the student's Section 504 Plan needs to be revised, the Section 504 Team provides the parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights and a copy of the student's revised Section 504 Plan.

A student's Section 504 Team periodically re-evaluates the student to determine continued eligibility and if the student's educational needs have changed. Before a re-evaluation, the Section 504 Team provides the parent or guardian Prior Written Notice of Action and Notice of Rights. Re-evaluations must occur at least every three years and before any significant change in a student's placement. Significant changes in placement include initiating or discontinuing a service, significantly increasing or decreasing the amount of a service, and certain disciplinary removals from school (e.g. long-term suspensions and expulsions).