Parent Resources You Need to Know About

There is so much helpful websites filled with valuable information to help you educate yourself on how to best help your child receive the education they desire. Here is a partial list. Please feel free to add more resources that you have found helpful as well.

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U.S. Department of Education - IDEA

From their website: This site was created to provide a "one-stop shop" for resources related to IDEA and its implementing regulations, released on August 3, 2006. It is a "living" website and will change and grow as resources and information become available. When fully implemented, the site will provide searchable versions of IDEA and the regulations, access to cross-referenced content from other laws (e.g., the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), etc.), video clips on selected topics, topic briefs on selected regulations, links to OSEP's Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network and a Q&A Corner where you can submit questions, and a variety of other information sources. As items are completed and added to this site, we invite you to grow and learn with us as we implement these regulations.

http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home

TACA Now - Site for Parents with Austic Children

This is their mission statement straight from their website:
Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) provides information, resources, and support to families affected by autism. For families who have just received the autism diagnosis, TACA aims to speed up the cycle time from the autism diagnosis to effective treatments. TACA helps to strengthen the autism community by connecting families and the professionals who can help them, allowing them to share stories and information to help people with autism be the best they can be.

http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/index.htm

SERI

From their website: Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location. This site will continually modify, update, and add additional informative links.

http://www.seriweb.com/

Are you truly informed of your Parental Rights?

As a parent of a student receiving special education, do you know what your parental rights are? Do you know what it means when you sign that you have been informed of your parental rights? Some parents are surprised to learn that when you sign that you have been informed of your parental rights that it actually means that you agree to what the school district is recommending for your child.

Have you been in this situation?

Here is a copy of what one district provides to parents to inform them of their parental rights when in an I.E.P. meeting or other related meeting.

http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/special_ed/resources/parent_rights.pdf

OSPI sued for special education in religious schools

OSPI sued for special education in religious schools

OLYMPIA — Three families have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the Washington superintendent of public instruction of discrimination for requiring kids who attend religious schools to travel off campus to get special education services.

By The Associated Press

OLYMPIA — Three families have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the Washington superintendent of public instruction of discrimination for requiring kids who attend religious schools to travel off campus to get special education services.
Federal law requires states to provide special education services to all kids and allows these services to be provided at any school a parent chooses.
Washington state has added its own restrictions, however. Those rules are at the heart of the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma today.
Washington state provides special education at both public and private schools, but youngerster who attend religious schools have to leave campus to get speech therapy and other kinds of help.