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Guía para Padres: Cómo Prepararse para Cuando su Hijo Adolescente Alcance la Mayoría de Edad
Parenting Foster Kids with Challenging Behaviors
Useful to: Parent Centers and other organizations addressing the needs and concerns of foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Very often, foster children have come into care specifically because they have experienced abuse or neglect. Those experiences and other kinds of trauma that may have occurred in their home, including being removed from their birth […]
You Are Not Alone
For Parents When They Learn That Their Child Has a Disability by Patricia McGill Smith PDF version In Spanish | En español If you have recently learned that your child has a developmental delay or a disability (which may or may not be completely defined), this message may be for you. It is written from […]
Public Awareness and the Referral System (Part C)
Accurate and updated information as of July 2021 Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that each State have a early intervention system that includes well-advertised processes for finding, referring, and (as appropriate) evaluating babies and toddlers suspected of having (or known to have) a developmental delay or disability. Having such […]
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Parent as Master Planner
Parents or adult family members play an essential role as learning coaches, ensuring their children have the structure and support to succeed in online and distance learning environments. This learning coach/master planner role is particularly important for children with disabilities, learning and attention issues, and those who struggle with executive function skills, including organization and prioritizing. This article from schoolvirtually.org offers several ways to get started in your role as learning coach. The article ends with a list of Visual Schedule apps you can download. Access the article and the list of Visual Schedule apps here.
The Unplanned Journey
When You Learn That Your Child Has a Disability by Carole Brown, Samara Goodman, and Lisa Küpper Links updated, March 2020 The birth of a child with a disability, or the discovery that a child has a disability, can have profound effects on the family. In “You are Not Alone,” Patricia McGill Smith offers the […]
Charting the LifeCourse
The National Community of Practice for Supporting Families of Individuals of I/DD has been working to develop systems of support for families throughout the lifespan of their family member with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Especially for individuals, families, and professionals are the Charting the LifeCourse materials, which include a LifeCourse toolkit in English and Spanish. The framework for Charting the LifeCourse was created BY FAMILIES to help individuals and families of all abilities and all ages develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live.
Read more about and access the LifeCourse Toolkit in English and Spanish here.
Overview of Professionals in the School-Age Special Education System
(2019, March) | Useful to Parent Centers and schools for sharing with families involved in their child’s special education. Throughout the academic career of a child with a disability, he or she will come into contact with dozens of different professionals who are there for support. The list that this article from eParenting provides an […]