Links Directory
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This section contains resources offering information and support of particular interest to parents, guardians, and families of children with disabilities.
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| Through the Looking Glass |
The new National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families has been announced by “Through the Looking Glass,” a non-profit organization. The Center will focus on four priority areas for families of children with disabilities: custody, family roles and personal assistance, paratransit, and intervention with parents with cognitive disabilities and their children. This National Center is funded by NIDRR, U.S. Department of Education.
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| Partnering with Your Child’s School: A Guide for Parents |
Information and Resources for Families of Children with Health and/or Mental Health Care Needs. This guide is designed to help parents of children who have been diagnosed with health or mental health care needs to learn about available resources and to develop a partnership with their children’s school. The guide is available in English and Spanish.
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| My Child's Special Needs - Learning Opportunities For Your Child Through Alternate Assessments |
This booklet introduces parents to the "big ideas" contained in school improvement efforts under NCLB and IDEA, and provides the information they need to help ensure that their children can benefit from these efforts. The end of this booklet identifies suggested sources of additional information that parents can use to help their children benefit from the nationwide education reform and accountability efforts intended to ensure high expectations for all children.
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| Briefs for Families on Evidence-Based Practices |
Parents rarely have access to research-based interventions. These briefs reflect the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice’s commitment to provide families with useful and usable information about evidenced-based practices. Brief topics include "Parents as Collaborative Team Members."
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| I Can Soar |
I Can Soar is a 26-minute video that showcases how assistive technology has been integrated successfully into the lives of four children with disabilities. Supporting materials such as a brochure, resource guide and video clips are available on the site, as well as instructions for ordering the video.
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| Colleges with Programs for Learning Disabled Students |
The colleges and universities listed on this website offer programs, some quite comprehensive, designed to support students with learning disabilities. Almost all colleges and universities provide some level of services and/or accommodations for learning-disabled students, as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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| TA ALLIANCE for Parent Centers |
This site for the Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers links to the national PACER Center, as well as to regional and state parent centers. These parent centers provide information and training to help parents participate more effectively in the educational process and improve student outcomes. Search their database to access materials from parent centers across the country.
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| Family Village |
The Family Village is sponsored by the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They provide a wealth of information for families covering topics such as legal rights, assistive technology, leisure activities, special education, and health issues. The site also has an extensive library that contains information on over 300 diagnoses.
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| FAPE IDEA Summary |
This document summarizes of some of the most critical changes affecting children with disabilities and their families in IDEA 2004, focuses on the IEP process, due process, and discipline provisions. How these changes affect our children will depend, at least in part, on how the U.S. Department of Education interprets them through policies and regulations and how they are implemented at the state, district, and school levels. Most of these changes were effective as of July 1, 2005.
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