Family to Family Conference: "Are We There Yet? Destination Inclusion"

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How to Contact Your Legislators

Ever wonder how you can contact your state and federal congressman/woman and representatives are? This website is one of the easiest ways imaginable. You simply fill in your Zip+4 code. Don't know your Zip+4 code? This site also has a link to the US Postal Service website.

http://www.senate.mo.gov/llookup/leg_lookup.aspx 

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¡Colorín Colorado !

Colorin Colorado is a free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELL). Visit us at www.colorincolorado.org 

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NICHCY Resources

Greetings from NICHCY, The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. NICHCY has just posted another training online for the Building the Legacy training curriculum on IDEA 2004:

• Module 14, Meetings of the IEP Team.

This module will tell you all about what's new, the same, or different in IDEA 2004 with respect to those all-important meetings of that all-important group, the IEP Team. The module includes a PowerPoint slide show and extensive additional resources. 

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Learning Disabilities Resource Kit: Specific Learning Disabilities Determination Procedures and Responsiveness to Intervention

The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (NRCLD) has developed this kit to help you navigate changes related to specific learning disability determination and responsiveness to intervention. 

Download the complete Learning Disabilities Resource Kit (zip, 13.6 MB)

This document is broken into the following sections:

General Information

Tools for Change

Getting Started Manual

RTI Manual

PowerPoint Presentation

Parent Pages

To view each section separately click on the link below.

 http://www.nrcld.org/resource_kit/ 

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NSTTAC Transition Checklist

In order to help states collect data for the State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Report, as required by the Department of Education , Office of Special Education Programs, NSTTAC has developed two checklists which can be used. Both are approved for this purpose. States may choose to use either form, or they may chose to develop their own forms for data collection.

Although these checklists are designed to help states gather information for reporting purposes, it is a good resource for parents to use to make sure transition is being addressed properly in their child's IEP.

The checklists can be found on the NSTTAC website by following this link:

http://www.nsttac.org/?FileName=indicator13_checklist&type=1 

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NCDW/Youth

Guide on Serving Youth with Mental Health Needs

This guide provides practical information and resources for youth service practitioners. In addition, it provides policymakers, from the program to the state level, with information to help them address system and policy obstacles in order to improve service delivery systems for youth with mental health needs.

Information on viewing, downloading, and purchasing the guide can be found here.

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Guide on Serving Youth in Foster Care System

The Guide also provides facts and statistics about youth involved in the foster care system; gives examples of states and communities that are changing policy and practices; identifies areas requiring further attention by policy makers and providers of services; and identifies resources and tools to assist cross-system collaborative efforts.

Information on viewing, downloading, and purchasing the guide can be found here.

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