Parent Resources
The Behavior Doctor: Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies: Provides proactive strategies and solutions for behaviors that adults wish to target for change in either their children or the students that they teach.
Educational Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding Special Education in Illinois [2009]: This guide is for parents, teachers, administrators, and others to learn about the educational rights of children who have disabilities and receive special education and related services. The English version has been revised to incorporate the changes made to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 and the Illinois special education rules and regulartions which became effective on June 28, 2007. The revised Spanish version is still under development.
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Healthcare for All Kids: Illinois is one of the first states to provide affordable, comprehensive health insurance for every child.
Illinois Autism Training & Technical Assistance Project [IATTAP]: There is an IATTAP office located in Lombard. This stie offers a variety of resources related to Pervasive Developmental Disorders such as Autism, Asperger's syndrome. and Rett's Syndrome Childhood Disintegrative Disorders.
National Center for Learning Disabilities: Provides essential information to parents, professionals, and individuals with learning disabilities.
National Institute for Literacy Publications: The Partnership for Reading has a variety of free pubications on reading in the areas of early childhood, childhood (K-3), adolescent, and adult. They also have an excellent site with answers to your Questions About Reading.
Parent Pals has everything you want to know about special education, including resources, teaching games, tips, and even a dictionary of common terms used in special education.