INFORMATION
FOR FAMILIES
INFORMATION TO INCLUDE
IN THE FAMILY SECTION:
* Your
child's current and prior IEPs, evaluations (educational, medical, etc.),
report cards, achievement tests, discipline notices, etc.
* Log of calls to or from school personnel
* All correspondence to or from school personnel
* Organizing Your
Child's Special Education File: Do It Right!
FREE RESOURCES:
* Call the Parent Education Network (1-800-522-5827) or go to
their site to obtain the following free publications
* Advocate for My Child: I Can Do That!
* IEP Guide for Parents
* Your Right to Disagree: A Parent Guide for Resolving Conflicts
* Transition, Preparation for Adult Living: A Guide for Parents
INTERNET RESOURCES:
-
Finding
Local Resources When Your Child Struggles to Learn and
- Finding Local
Resources When Your Child Has Learning Disabilities or AD/HD
-
Online Parent Groups: Support at Your Fingertips
- Education Advocacy: A Self-Help Tutorial for Parents by Dr. Leslie E. Packer
- The Information Collaborative's Family Resource Guide (Southwestern PA)
- PaTTAN
(Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network)
Information for Parents
- PA Parent Guide to Special Education for School Age Children (2008)
-
A
Family's Introduction to Early Intervention in Pennsylvania (2005)
- Subscribe
to ldonline's monthly email newsletter.
- Subscribe to Wrightlaw email newsletter.
- Tool
Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities
- "Wrightslaw
Game Plan: Help for New Parents"
- "Wrightslaw
Game Plan: Good IEP Goals and Objectives"
- National
Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
(1-800-695-0285)
- Guide to Disability Resources
on the Internet
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
- Finding Resources When Your Child Struggles to Learn from Schwab Learning
- Learning Toolbox (Parents) tools to enable secondary students with learning difficulties to be better learners
Parent
Guides to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act:
- No Child Left Behind: A Parents Guide (U.S. Department of Education)
- Making the NCLB
Work for Children Who Struggle to Learn: A Parent's Guide
-
Parent's Guide to No Child Left Behind (Wrightslaw)
