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Special Education

Information is an essential tool for informed decision-making. This section helps families and their partners in the systems around us as they gather information to best meet their needs.

Accommodations, Adaptations and Modifications

Resources for preparing young adults with disabilities to transition to workplace settings.

CAST – Center for Applied Technology

Research based strategies to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities.

CEC – Council for Exceptional Children

Dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.

The Family Support Center on Disabilities: Knowledge & Involvement Network (KIN)

This is a centralized resource on the full range of options available to individuals with disabilities and their families. This is a new web site and a work in progress funded by Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Connect to relevant resources, organizations, agencies and programs, on-line training, with forums for discussion and networking.

IDEA Discipline Compliance Tool

The discipline rules of IDEA can be difficult to understand and apply correctly. This interactive tool will help you understand how the discipline rules apply to specific situations. You provide the situation, and the tool tells you what rules apply and what must, may, and may not be done. This tool covers six stages: Eligibility, Type of Conduct, Proposed Disciplinary Action, Manifestation Results, Considering PBIS, and Discipline FAQ.

Monahan & Cohen

This web site offers information covering the areas of Health, Human Services, Special Education & Disability Law. Topics also include guardianship and estate planning legal needs of children and adults, including the elderly, with mental, developmental and physical disabilities or substance dependency and their families. Visitors can sign up for an e-newsletter to stay up to date on many advocacy topics.

National Association of State Directors of Special Education

NASDSE works to continuously improve educational services and outcomes for students with disabilities.

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition

Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures.

RTI Action Network

A program of the National Center for Learning Disabilities to support implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students - including those with learning disabilities - are identified early and receive supports to be successful.