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Education > Special Education
Aging Out of Special Education: A Parent's Guide to Transition Services and 18-22 Programs
...special education services don't end at high...between school-based services and adult life. If...determine that transition services should begin at any...integrated employment, supported employment, or other...employment, or other work-based goals Independent...includes the transition services needed to help your...instruction, related services, community...
Global Insights > Employment
The Real Path to Employment: What Happens Between High School and Your Child's First Paycheck
...or who is supposed to help. The...need ongoing support to work. This...support to work. This article...who provides services at each stage,...what those services include, and...distinctions between supported employment...shape what work looks like...Transition services needed to...study, related services, and community...and adult services If your child...transition work, particularly...
Education > Special Education
IDEA at 50: What Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Could Mean for Your Child's Services
...meeting wondering whether the services on that document will show...changing in ways that affect how services get delivered and enforced....block grant, the targeted work they support tends to lose...grant, the targeted work they support tends to lose its dedicated...the $39 million each that supported technical assistance networks...
Parenting > Adulthood
When Your Child Grows Up & Out of Special Ed
...would agree to work with him since...he had been at work sites starting...and/or expect for supported work services,...for supported work services, Social...supported work services, Social Security,...to give my son supported work services....son supported work services. Yet,...supported work services. Yet, I had done...lifetime child support for my son so...
Education > Higher Education
For Teens in Transition, an Opportunity
...lacked direction. The university environment had supported him academically, but he needed structure outside...potential to achieve it, he didn't have the life and work skills he needed to take on adult responsibilities....is a daunting prospect. Many legally mandated services have ended, and without them families find themselves...
Special Needs > Dyslexia
Dyslexia and College: How Accommodations Change and What Students Need to Know
...college, and you assume the same support system follows you. It doesn't...system follows you. It doesn't work that way. The day you enroll...schools must identify and support students with disabilities....dyslexia can absolutely get the support they need in college, but the...Program (IEP), and provide services to help you succeed. Teachers,...
Financial > Scholarships
How Vocational Rehabilitation Can Pay for Your College or Trade School
...to an employment outcome. VR is an employment support system, not a scholarship program, and it pays...exhaust other funding sources first. VR counselors work with you to develop an Individualized Plan for...That plan outlines your employment goal and the services VR will provide to help you reach it. If your counselor...
Education > Other
Twice Exceptional Students: When Your Child Is Both Gifted and Has a Disability
...get dual identification, and what educational services work for kids who need both challenge and support....identification, and what educational services work for kids who need both challenge and support. What...services work for kids who need both challenge and support. What Twice Exceptional Means. Twice exceptional...
Education > Higher Education
College Disability Resource Centers: How to Register and What Services to Expect
...assume disability services work like high...disability services work like high school:...ask if you need support, maybe pull you...looks like, what services you can expect,...make the DRC work for you from...to disability services. The name varies:...Accessibility Services, Student Accessibility...provides additional services like assistive...fees for these services. The DRC is funded...
Therapies > Speech
Speech Therapy for Special Needs Children: A Complete Guide for Parents
...to seek an evaluation, what the process involves, and how to make therapy work requires understanding what speech-language pathologists do and how the...referral to contact a speech-language pathologist privately. For school-based services, submit a written request for evaluation to your child's school district....
Therapies > Occupational
Occupational Therapy for Children with Special Needs: School, Private, or Both?
...private OT on top of school services, or if that's overstepping....IDEA, schools must provide OT services only when they're educationally...the therapy must directly support your child's ability to access...pencil to complete written work, managing classroom materials,...complete schoolwork without OT support, the school isn't required...
Special Needs > Rare Disorders
IEP Advocacy for Children with Rare Disorders: When No One Has Done This Before
...before. This is not a valid reason to delay or deny services. IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education...disorder who fatigues after 30 minutes of cognitive work qualifies for accommodations based on that functional...sustain attention through a 90-minute block without support. IDEA's 13 disability categories include "Other...