The Enrollment Process

What You Do:

  1. Contact the Parent Information Office to request an information packet and/or to schedule a campus visit. Call toll free 1-(800)-344-3732 or (904) 827-2227 or VP (904) 201-4557.
  2. Complete an Application for Student Evaluation PDF. Be sure to fill out all of the pages completely. The parent/legal guardian must sign the application. Be sure to provide complete addresses for your child’s current and previous schools and medical providers. Enclose copies of custody documents, if applicable.
  3. Check again. Is all information complete?
  4. Send us the completed application. Parent Information Office, Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, 207 N. San Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, FL 32084. You may fax the application to our registrar at (904) 827-2218.

What We Do:

We begin our part of the process after we receive the completed application.

  1. Our Registrar will request school records. Our Health Care Center staff will request medical records. Often it takes several weeks or longer for us to receive all records. You can help speed up the process by sending any records that you have with the application.
  2. We send all records to our File Review Committee. Occasionally, we need to ask for more information.
  3. When we finish the review, we contact you. We may send you a letter expressing possible eligibility concerns. We may phone you to schedule an intake evaluation. (In either case, you have the right to participate in an eligibility staffing.)
  4. If you have questions regarding eligibility criteria, you may call the Staffing Specialist who is working with your child’s file. You may call Michele Handley at (904) 827-2401, or Cynthia Holmes at (904) 827-2706.

What Happens Next:

  1. You and your child will attend the intake evaluation. You and the intake team agree on the evaluations. The evaluations may include some of these: audiological, educational, psychological, speech/language, social history, health history, occupational therapy, physical therapy, or psychiatric.
  2. Following the intake/eligibility evaluation, you will participate in an eligibility staffing. We will explain our evaluation information, and make recommendations. If your child is eligible to attend FSDB, we may call an IEP team to write an IEP. The parent/legal guardian is a member of the IEP team.

Parent Option: The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind is one of the programs of instruction available in the state of Florida to deaf, hard-of-hearing or blind students. You may choose to enroll your child in your local school district or in FSDB, if the eligibility criteria are met.