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Parent Navigator for Special Education Parents

This is a site to support parents with sudents in Special Education. The site is currently under construction.

Special Education General Information

The sections below provide information regarding special education contact list, acronyms, evaluations, IDEA, and more. There are also sections that include information you may need in reagards to a particular time of year.

Resources

The resource section provides links for special education, program, and community resources.

- Services for Student Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Audiology: ASHA

ARD Process

In the Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) Process sections you will find links to provide further information about the ARD and Individualized Education Plan (IEP) processes such as the ARD guide and procedual safeguards.

- ARD Guide (English)
- ARD Guide (Spanish)
- Procedural Safeguards (English)
- Procedural Safeguards (Spanish)
- A Seven-Step Process to Creating Standards-based IEPs

Transition Support

Transition Support is for all ages from Pre K to Adulthood. Additional information regarding these transitions by age level are in the links below.

- Charmaine Solomon Adult Transition Center
- Transition Texas
- Texas Transition and Employment Guide
- Texas Transition and Employment Guide (Spanish)
- Texas Workforce Commission and Legal Framework- Transition
- The National Parent Center on Transition and Employment provides information on Middle and High school planning, postsecondary education, employment, benefit programs and support, independent and community living, Laws and Rights, Health and Transition and Assistive Technology.
- Got Transition aims to improve transition from pediatric to adult health care through the use of new and innovative strategies for health and professionals and youth an family.
- Family Voices National Center for Family/Professional Partnerships is an organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities.
- Great Schools.org provides information on school quality, supporting advocacy and parenting information.
- Texas Youth 2 Adult provides information specific to the individual diagnosis and age of the student.
- Next Steps provides a multimedia reference tool about transition IEP process.
- I’m Determined focuses on providing direct instruction models and opportunities to practice skills associated with self-determination and transition.
- Bridging Apps is a website that searched for apps that are reviewed using standards-based assessment tools. Learn to use mobile devices to effectively target skill development.
- Charting the Life Course is a framework that was developed to help individuals with disabilities and families at any age or stage of life think about what they need to know, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. Individuals and families may focus on their current situation and stage of life but may also find it helpful to look ahead to start thinking about what they can do or learn now that will help build an inclusive productive life in the future.
- Transition and the Law Document
- Link to information about guardianship and alternatives
Transition is a process and a journey; not an event. Transition planning leads to interdependence, allowing the person to recognize strengths, interests and needs. According to the American’s with Disability Act of 1990, “Independence is not measured by the number of tasks a person can do without assistance but the quality of life a person can lead with assistance. Past experiences influence and support future outcomes. Envisioning what you and your child want to see in the future, and what you want to avoid can create a trajectory for planning. This vision will change based on life experiences. Parents can create opportunities to support future learning and students can learn by experiencing success and perceived failures (Dignity of Risk Document).”

Charting the LifeCourse provides tools to support your child’s transition.

Trajectory Early Childhood

Trajectory Elementary

Trajectory Secondary

Transition age Trajectory Worksheet
Self-advocacy is the ability to speak up for yourself and the things that are important to you. It includes asking for the things you want and need and express your feelings and ideas. Self-determination means that the person recognizes their strengths and needs in order to determine a goal, create and evaluate a plan of action while using identified supports. Self-determination can be expressed at all ages and in many ways. A young child shows self-determination by choosing a toy, a shirt to wear, or a snack. This can be expressed by crying and throwing themselves on the floor or by having a choice presented. The parent can help the child by teaching self-determination and decreasing the emotional outbursts.

Skills associated with self-determination include choice making, self-advocacy and self-management and having self-awareness and self-knowledge.

View the skills associated with Self Determination and Self-Advocacy

Agency Supports
Health care transition is the process of getting ready for health care as an adult. During childhood, parents usually help with medical needs—they call for appointments, fill out forms, and keep track of medications. As youth get older, managing medical needs becomes their own responsibility. Achieving this independence requires an organized transition process to gain independent health care skills, prepare for an adult model of care, and transfer to new providers. There are several steps you can take to make sure the transition to adult health care goes smoothly. Be sure to also check out our resource section for additional information.

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