This page shows you how to enable and set up Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA). It also lets you add, delete or edit students in it and create interchanges and run reports for it.
Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) will report data on the language acquisition of children eight years of age or younger who are deaf or hard of hearing or are identified with an auditory impairment or deaf/blindness.
It will use the following C053 DISABILITY-TYPE codes: ’05’ Deaf-Blind or ‘03’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing, translated to the DC142 disability codes: ’02’ Deaf-Blindness (Deaf-Blind) or ‘06’ Deaf And Hard Of Hearing.
Students are not automatically re-enrolled in SELA Services upon re-enrollment.
The following students meet the requirements for SELA reporting:
NOTE: SELA services are not included in the transfer utility at this time.
The Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) Submission is due June 26, 2025.
IMPORTANT: Each LEA will have unique situations. Some of the dates, images, and examples provided in this document are for informational and instructional purposes only and may not completely represent your LEA's process.
Information on this tab is not editable and is view only.
❏ Under Demographic Information:
Demographics that are reported in the Student Parent Interchange. Once you select a student from the directory, the student info will auto populate if he/she meets the SELA criteria.
❏ Under Special Ed Information:
The following information is gathered from Registration > Maintenance > Student Enrollment > SpecEd:
Users will enter the services needed for the student.
❏ Click +Add. A blank row is added to the grid.
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Campus | Enter the campus number. | ||||||
Entry Date | Enter the Entry Date from the assessment report. Effective 2022, this date can be prior or current school year and will be reported as Eligibility-Date for the SELA Submission, StudentParent Interchange. | ||||||
Exit Date | This date will not be reported in the SELA Submission and is for internal use only. | ||||||
Reason | This information will not be reported in the SELA Submission and is for internal use only. | ||||||
Home Communication |
PREFERRED-HOME-COMMUNICATION-METHOD (E1661) identifies the preferred unique communication method used by the child at home. Choose one from the drop-down menu: 01 - Visual 02 - Auditory 03 - Tactile 04 - Multiple or Total 98 - Parent or Guardian did not Respond 99 - Parent or Guardian was not able to be reached |
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Language Acq Services |
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Hearing Amplification |
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Assessment Info |
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❏ Click Save.
Registration > Reports > Registration Reports > Student > SRG5000 - Special Education Language Acquisition (SELA) Roster Report
The SRG5000 report provides a Special Education Language Acquisition Roster listing of each deaf or hard of hearing or deaf-blind student including basic information and data collected about services and assessments for each student and a roster of the students in that school.
❏ Click on the TEA drop-down menus to see complete information for SELA reporting including: Domains, Entities and Data Elements.
The following data elements are pulled from the Alternative and Supplemental Services, Education Organization, Enrollment, and Student Identification and Demographics domains: