Parents Special Needs Resources
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This page contains links to resources to help parents with special needs education children.
Virginia Walden-Ford speaks to parents and community leaders in Louisville, Kentucky to rally support for school choice in the Commonwealth.
Overview of Challenges with Special Education
Parents with a child in need of special education services face many challenges. This overview is structured to provide quick summaries on various aspects of the special education process and special challenges faced by parents with a special needs child.
Video is used extensively to reduce the reading required for this overview.
Parents are the chief advocates for their child in a system that is sometimes less than helpful.
Parents have options
History of Special Education
An introduction to special education
Brief overview of special education process by a teacher
Autism signs and symptoms
The realities of a child with autism or other learning disabilities highlight the need to network with other parents who truly understand the challenges.
But autistic people can excel.
It is amazing what people with learning disabilities can achieve. Doctors are not always right in their predictions.
Set expectations and what is possible from a success oriented perspective where the child is the primary focus. When dealing with the government and public schools money and resources can cloud what is most important.
The National Association for Child Development is a resource.
Important facts and ideas from the NACD Autism Seminar.
School districts can move money from special education to the general fund.
The threat to special education posed by response to intervention.
Training for parents
The Disabilities Rights Center's Legal Director Amy Messer talks about the process of identifying a child with a disability under IDEA.
Overview of the IEP section of IDEA requirements.
Developing an IEP
Advocating for Your Child at an IEP
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