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Parent/Student Handbook
Welcome to the new school year! This school year, your child will have many opportunities to grow and develop as individuals. They will build positive relationships, learn new academic skills, build daily living skills and pre-vocational/employment skills, and develop confidence and self-esteem. The program that your child will be attending is designed for students whose needs have not been successfully met in a traditional classroom environment. The staff in your child’s program have a commitment to provide a positive learning experience which promotes a cooperative instructional partnership among family, school, and community. The information contained in this handbook should help you get acquainted with your child’s SASED program, policies, and procedures.
All information provided in this Parent/Student Handbook, including dates, times, and locations are current as of July 1, 2025 and may be amended during the school year without notice. All information is accessed by clicking on the links on the left navigation menu. The Parent/Student Handbook contains summaries of schools' and programs' rules and expectations and is not a comprehensive statement of school/program procedures. The SASED Board's comprehensive policy manual is available for public inspection on SASED's website: SASED Board Policies or at SASED's administrative office located at 2900 Ogden Avenue, Lisle, IL 60532.
The Parent/Student Handbook was developed to answer many of the commonly asked questions that students and parent may have during the course of a school year. This Handbook contains important information for parents and students. It is the responsibility of all parents and students to become familiar with the contents of this Handbook. Should you have any questions not addressed in this Handbook, please contact the Program Administrator.
This Handbook applies to all SASED's Schools/Programs. For Programs that are located in a host district, SASED students and their parents must also follow the policies, procedures and rules of that host district.
Behavioral Interventions, Policies, and Procedures for Students with Disabilities Manual
The purpose of these procedures is to provide SASED’s requirements and best practices on the use of behavioral interventions, including restrictive interventions such as physical restraint, time out and isolated time out (“RTO”), and the use of discipline with students with disabilities.
The procedures are pursuant to Board Policies 7:230, Misconduct by Students with Disabilities, and 7:190, Student Behavior. These procedures have been developed after careful review and consideration of the Illinois State Board of Education’s guidelines, Behavioral Interventions in Schools: Guidelines for the Development of District Policies for Students with Disabilities (October 2024). The contact information to request this information from the Illinois State Board of Education is: Illinois State Board of Education, 100 North 1st Street, Springfield, IL. 62777; (217) 782-4321; ISBESpecED@isbe.net.
SASED emphasizes the use of positive behavioral interventions with students with disabilities to develop and strengthen desirable behaviors and reduce identified inappropriate behaviors. Behavioral interventions shall be used by taking into consideration the student’s physical freedom and social interaction and shall be administered in a manner that respects human dignity and personal privacy and that ensures a student’s rights to placement in the least restrictive environment.