Roadmap To Navigating Your Child'S Disability

Roadmap to Navigating Your Child's disability is designed with you the parent in mind as a comprehensive, yet easy to read resource that will provide you with all the information you may be looking for on the quest to getting your child the best supports for their disability in a public education school setting. The book is broken down into three parts for your ease in navigation to get the information you need when you need it. Part I: Cracking the Code on Educational Jargon, breaks down the most commonly used acronyms in education today by providing you with an Educational Jargon Cheat Sheet that outlines acronyms related to disability coding, portions of the IEP, staff roles and self-contained programs thus making you an expert as well with these commonly used terms. Part II: TEAM, provides you with an understanding of the types of meetings used in identification of a child's disability and implementation of proposed accommodations along with the legal timelines in monitoring interventions to support your child's disability. Additionally, it provides you with a parent checklist along with ways you can advocate for your child respectfully. The last part, Part III: Disabilities A-Z, breaks down into sections the most common disabilities within an inclusion setting and identifying for each the characteristics of the disability, the best accommodations for school, ways you as the parent can help at home and the best resources for you in regards to that disability.

• | Author: Chrissie Kahan
• | Publisher: King Kahan Publishing, Llc
• | Publication Date: Jun 20, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 82 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0997933348
• | ISBN-13: 9780997933345