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State Recommended IEP Forms and Instructions

State Recommended IEP forms with accompanying instructions for completion are available on CDE's Exceptional Student Services Unit web site. This set of forms has been organized for your use as a training manual.  A hard copy of the manual was distributed to each Special Education Director, Facilities Director, and higher education representatives in the fall of 1999.  Minor revisions to the forms were made effective July 2001.  Complete sets are now available in either English or Spanish.

In this manual, you will find that specific forms and "sets" of forms have been separated for easy access and duplication. Forms are separated into the sets required for an initial or triennial meeting and sets required for an annual review.  Forms are further separated into sets to be used for Early Childhood, for students in kindergarten through age 13, and for students age 14 and older.  Instructions for completion are included with individual sets.

Be sure to check with the special education director in your Administrative Unit to learn whether the Administrative Unit requires the use of IEP forms that are different from the State recommended IEP forms.