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- Parents' Rights
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/special.ed/pubs/pdf/eps-eng.pdf - IEP Guide for Parents
http://www.ed.gov/parents/needs/speced/iepguide/index.html#process - Understanding the Special Education Process
http://www.fape.org/pubs/FAPE-10.pdf - IDEA and Secondary Transition Requirements
http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/%2Croot%2Cdynamic%2CTopicalBrief%2C17%2C - Partners Resource Network (PRN)
http://www.partnerstx.org/ - Courses to empower parents of students with disabilities
http://www.partnerstx.org/courses/i_c_home.html - Basics of Evaluation for Special Education
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/special_education/pdfs/NICHCY_BP1.pdf - Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
http://seriweb.com/ - Person Centered Planning: a Tool for Transition
http://www.ncset.org/publications/parent/NCSETParent_Feb04.pdf - Health and Transition
http://www.ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp?id=2967 - The Role of Parents in Dropout Prevention
http://www.ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp?id=3135 - NCLB and IDEA: What Parents Need to Know
http://education.umn.edu/nceo/OnlinePubs/Parents.pdf - No Child Left Behind: A Parents Guide
http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/involve/nclbguide/parentsguide.html - IDEA-What it is and how it works
http://www.fape.org/idea/index.htm
Click and Print Tools
- IEP Guide Department of Education
- Communicating with Schools
- Understanding the Special Education Process
- Acronyms for Special Education
- Acronyms and Agencies for Special Education
- Acronyms and Agencies for Special Education Spanish Version
- Acronyms and the Law
- Planning Your Child’s IEP
- Planning Your Child’s IEP Spanish Version
- Discipline and the Law
- Safeguards
- Transition
Building Successful Partnerships
- Click for Video
- Achieve Texas
http://www.achievetexas.org/ - Center on Education and Work
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/ - Center for Occupational Research and Development
http://www.cord.org/index.cfm - Southern Region Education Board
http://www.sreb.org/
Career Guidance
- Click for Video
- How can I help my child with career guidance issues?
- What is career guidance?
- Career Guidance - How Parents Can Help
- Helping Your Child Choose a Career
- Education Service Centers Information
- Guidance and Counseling Program for Texas Public Schools
- Parents Resource Network
- Tools for Student Success: Selected Publications for Parents
- In-depth career profiles: degree and wage statistics for
over 400 occupations that commonly require college or university education - Model Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program for Texas Public Schools
Laws
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Carl D Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- No Child Left Behind
- Section 504
Disabilities
- Articles and
Resources - Care.com
- Help for Families - Care.com
- Teaching
Your Child about Peers - Care.com
- Autism Care Considerations - Care.com
- Types
of Day Care
- International Center for Disability Resources
- LaChris Connection
- Individualized Education Program (IEP): Summary, process and Practical Tips
- Fostering Self-Determination Among Children and Youth with Disabilities – Ideas from Parents to Parents : This guide provides strategies for parents to promote self-determining behavior in children and youth with disabilities, based on a survey project in Wisconsin of parents of children with intellectual disabilities or autism. Over 700 participating parents shared their views on the importance of self-determination skills for their children and strategies they use to promote these skills
- Medical Advice: Transplants for Children with Disabilities
- Present Levels of Functional Performance & Functional Goals in IEPs
- Roadmap to IDEA 2004: What You Need to Know About IEPs & IEP Meetings
Parents as Teachers
- Blogs, articles, and resources to support you as the primary and most significant teachers of your children.
- Information, support and encouragement parents need to help their children develop optimally during the crucial early years of life.
- Texas Parents as Teachers
- Parents as Teachers National Center
ARD/IEP Meetings
- Using the ARD/IEP Agenda to understand the Special Education process - http://www.texasprojectfirst.org/ARDIEP.html
- ARD/IEP Planning Conference between family and school - http://www.texasprojectfirst.org/SEProcessStep4.html
- ARD/IEP Meeting: What happens? - http://www.texasprojectfirst.org/SEProcessStep5.html
- Plan ahead for your child's ARD meeting - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/archive/ard.htm
- Good Questions To Ask in the ARD Meeting - http://www.ourspecialkids.org/tgi-ardquestions.html
- How to Survive an ARD Meeting - http://www.ehow.com/how_2164328_survive-ard-meeting.html
- Common mistakes parents can make - http://www.spednet.org/ten-common-mistakes-parents-make-during-the-iep-meeting/
- IEP Basics: What the School Forgot to Tell You - http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/seehear/winter02/iep.htm
- Click for Video: Example of how a parent and child can prepare for an ARD meeting.
Spanish Tools
Easter Seals Make the First Five Count-http://es.easterseals.com/site/PageNavigator/ntlc10_mffc_homepage_espanol
Last updated: 16 May, 2013
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