RESOURCES
The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high-quality resources for college anduniversity faculty and professional development providers about students with disabilities. IRIS provides free, online dictionary that gives the definition of common disability and special education related terms.
http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resource_TOOL_dict/onlinedictionary.html
Educational rights of children of immigrants
The English guidance documents:
http://www.ed.gov/about/
http://www.ed.gov/about/
http://www.ed.gov/about/
The Spanish-language guidance documents:
http://www.ed.gov/about/
http://www.ed.gov/about/
http://www.ed.gov/about/
Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) The Basics for Educators and Families:
PowerPoint slides: AIMBasicsWebinarToPost.August21.2014
Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) Navigating Your Way to AIM in the IEP:
PowerPoint slides: AIMinIEPwebinarToPost.Aug_.21.2014
Early Intervention
Transitional Resources
Below are four separate “notebooks” about adolescent health transition. They are quite small and of course don’t contain all the information in the Washington version but we have been getting good feedback about the usefulness of them.
http://here.doh.wa.gov/materials/tween-2-teen/13_CSHCN-12yr_E14L.pdf
http://here.doh.wa.gov/materials/life-health-way/13_CSHCN-15yr_E14L.pdf
http://here.doh.wa.gov/materials/transition-plan-young-adults/13_CSHCN-18yr_E14L.pdf
http://here.doh.wa.gov/materials/healthy-transition-plan/13_CSHCN-parent_E14L.pdf
Toolkit: Mental Health for Youth and Adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities:
http://www.cmhnetwork.org/news/toolkit-idd-mental-health-challenges
U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
The mission of the Office for Civil Rights is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights.
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