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All About Advocates Good special education services are intensive and expensive. Resources are limited. If you have a child with special needs, you will likely need to utilize… Download resource Categories: Family Engagement, Advocacy, IEP Steps to Success: Communicating with your Child’s School We hope these steps to success will be particularly helpful to parents … Read more

Steps to Success: Communicating with your Child’s School We hope these steps to success will be particularly helpful to parents who are new to the special education process…. Download resource Categories: General, Communication, Family Engagement, Advocacy, Conflict Resolution Talk Tools Talk Tools features helpful questions to use in conversations and meetings about your child—including behaviors, … Read more

Developmental Delay (DD) Fact Sheet Think of all the skills that children have to learn when they come into the world. We expect these skills to emerge naturally over time and know more or less when they should… Download resource Categories: Development Delay

Deaf-Blindness Fact Sheet A person who is deaf-blind has a unique experience of the world. For people who can see and hear, the world extends outward as far as his or her eyes and ears can reach. For the young child… Download resource Categories: Deaf-Blindness

Anxiety Fact Sheet All children experience anxiety. Anxiety in children is expected and normal at specific times in development. For example, from approximately age eight months through the preschool years, healthy children may show intense distress (anxiety) at times of separation from their parents… Download resource Categories: Mental Health Attention and ADHD Fact Sheet Parents … Read more

SLD Fact Sheet This fact sheet, the fifth in a series, addresses inadequate achievement. This criterion provides evidence that the student does not achieve adequately for the age or grade-level standards in which the child is enrolled… Download resource Categories: Learning Disability

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Fact Sheet Definitions, signs, facts, and classroom tips for autism spectrum disorder Download resource Categories: Autism Growing up Together: Children with Autism Children with autism may look like other kids, but if you met them you would find they are different in some ways. It may be hard for them to … Read more

504 Fact Sheet Section 504 is a federal civil rights law, banning disability discrimination in all programs that get federal funding. Download resource Categories: General, 504 Concerned about Development? How to Help Your Child If you’re concerned about your child’s development, don’t wait. Acting early can make a real difference! Download resource Categories: General, IEP … Read more