Resources for Parent Involvement in Special Education
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A practical, hands-on primer on helping schools and families work better together to improve children's education. Beyond the Bake Sale shows how to form these essential partnerships and how to make them work. |
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What are Developmental Disabilities? |
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The voice and vision of special education |
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The IDEA Partnership reflects the collaborative work of more than 50 national organizations, technical assistance providers, and organizations and agencies at state and local level. |
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Eligibility Discussions and IEP Discussions are Different. |
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Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships Joyce L. Epstein, Director Johns Hopkins University |
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If you are a parent or teacher of a child with a learning disability – or have learning disabilities yourself - you are not alone. |
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Massachusetts Association of Special Education Parent Advisory Councils (MASSPAC) |
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This website provides MASSPAC membership information and the Parent’s Desk Reference—a listing of services and professionals for families with children with disabilities. |
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National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education |
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At NCPIE, our mission is simple: to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people. |
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities |
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A great place to get free down-loadable information on special education. |
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Information on AD/HD. |
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To provide educational leadership and services which promote equal educational opportunities and quality practices and programs that enable New Hampshire residents to become fully productive members of society." |
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Cultivating an ecology of youth success |
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The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. |
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Since its inception in 1973, National Middle School Association (NMSA) has been a voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents. NMSA is the only national education association dedicated exclusively to those in the middle level grades. |
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Parental involvement: Title I, part A: Non-regulatory guidance. |
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What is parental involvement under No Child Left Behind? Washington, DC:U.S. Government Printing Office. U.S. Department of Education.(2004). |
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Here you will find a variety of resources, including modules, which you can use to support leadership development among parents of children and youth with disabilities. The modules have been field-tested through leadership orientations with parents from across the United States who were invited to participate because of their interest in expanding their leadership knowledge, skills and opportunities. |
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The New Hampshire Department of Education is proud to partner with the Parent Information Center to provide this resource. This website contains information to promote parent involvement and strong school-family-community partnerships. |
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QISA is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and putting into practice the conditions that foster student aspirations in school and learning communities around the world. |
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Knowing that most educators welcome practical knowledge and tools that they can use, I created this site to help educators learn about neurobehavioral disorders |
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action |
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When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students’ education, they can make a positive impact on student achievement. |
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A summary of selected research compiled by Dr. John H. Wherry, President, |
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The IDEA Partnership Communities of Practice are focused on advancing policy and practice in four key areas: (a) the intersections of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA); (b) school behavioral health services; (c) interagency transition, and (d) teacher quality. As partner organizations work together and with States, districts, local sites and individuals, they form Communities of Practice whose members learn from each other and take action together in coordinated ways. |
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ADVANCING RESEARCH, IMPROVING EDUCATION Family and Community: SEDL is a private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) corporation based in Austin, Texas. Improving teaching and learning has been at the heart of SEDL’s work for more than 40 years. |
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) and CADRE |
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The Barriers to Parental Involvement - And What Can be Done: A Research Analysis |
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John H. Wherry, Ed.D., President, The Parent Institute or the last 16 years, since The Parent Institute was founded in 1989, I have looked for and tried to read every bit of research about parent involvement that I can find. |
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This website provides a wealth of information and resources on special needs topics; it links to parent training and workshops offered and to a searchable national family resource database. |
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The Impact of Parent/Family Involvement on Student Outcomes: |
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This websites provides information and resources on a wide array of disability inclusion topics, including education, transition and career development for youth with disabilities. |
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We only get one chance to prepare our students for the future. |
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This website provides information and resources on a wide array of special needs topics, with materials also available in Hmong, Somali and Spanish languages. |
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The PACER Center’s Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers (the ALLIANCE) |
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This website provides information and resources on special education topics and other issues important to parent centers serving families with children with disabilities. The website also links to a searchable national directory of parent centers. |
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The School-Family Connection: Looking at the Larger Picture (PDF) |
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A Review of Current Literature Read online, or download |
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Toolkits on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities |
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Our mission is to provide parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys with accurate, up-to-date information about special education law and advocacy so they can be effective catalysts. Subscribe to The Special Ed Advocate, the free weekly e-newsletter about special education legal and advocacy topics. |
Susanne Carter - December 2002 A CADRE Publication
