Special Dietary Needs
Under USDA regulations, Edgewood ISD Child Nutrition Services is required to provide menu modifications and/or substitutions to students with life threatening allergies, or for students with disabilities that restrict their diet.
Menu changes may be provided for:
1) Students with a documented 504 Plan specifying a special dietary need.
2) Students that that a disease or food allergy that is life threatening
If a student meets either of these 2 definitions, a recognized medical authority (i.e. physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners) must fill out the Parent/Guardian must also sign form to give consent to plan of care. Dietary Request Form
The Dietary Request Form must include:
- Explanation of student's disability or medical diagnosis
- The food or foods to be omitted from the child's diet; and
- The food or choices of foods to be substituted
Please send signed and completed form to your school nurse. Then the school nurse will forward to cafeteria manager and Child Nutrition Dietitian. The Dietitian will review the form and follow up with parent/guardian for further plan of care.
*Dietary Request Forms are active for the life of a student's academic time and can only be discontinued by an authorized medical authority. We still encourage parents/guardians to obtain a new form each year to ensure medical needs are met and up to date.*
For questions or concerns contact our district Dietitian:
Roxanna Ruiz, Child Nutrition Services Director
(210) 898-4037