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Reading Rockets provides resources to teach children to read. The website provides articles on parent tips on teaching children to read, interviews with children authors, and many more. The website has a calendar with literacy celebrations, for example in February it will provide a list of books for Valentine's Day and black history month to read to your child.

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.

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The Shutdown Learner is a blog written by Dr. Selznick, he writes blogs to help parents who are raising children with learning disabilities such as ADHD and dyslexia. The Shut-Down Learner also provides recourses for parents, such as an online consultation to help parents review their child’s assessment.

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Finding Coopers Voice is a blog written by a mother whose son was diagnosed with Autism at the age of three. After her son was diagnosed with autism she searched for families who were like hers, not able to connect with anyone she decided to write a blog and share her journey with autism.

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Finding Cooper's Voice | Welcome to the Secret World of Autism

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Home - Finding Cooper's Voice | Welcome to the Secret World of Autism

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Now Available: Forever Boy With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in Forever Boy, a powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love.

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PACER provides assistance, and workshops, and helps families decide on their child’s education.  PACER provides information on IEPs, and gives parents tips on what questions to ask at their child’s IEP meeting, what to expect after an IEP meeting, things to consider, and who will be at the meeting.

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Dear Parent,

When your child is diagnosed with a disability, it can be overwhelming-emotionally and financially-on you, and perhaps your child and family as well. You realize, maybe suddenly, that you must change or modify plans for your child's future. Even the most stable of families face financial challenges. Yet, in caring for your child with special needs, those challenges can make for urgent situations.

Considering the reality of this can be very difficult. That is why the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Center and the National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) collaborated on this publication. Through it you will find ways to create a sense of order in your life and maintain control over your finances as you care for your child and prepare him or her for adulthood.

About This Publication

This publication was created for parents of children under the age of 18 who have disabilities. It is a simple, straightforward resource to help you manage your money, and plan for your and your child's financial future and overall well-being. The financial management techniques presented here can help you, not just in times of crisis, but for the rest of your life.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available on caring for children with disabilities. Making your way through it all consumes too much of your precious time. So we designed this publication to accomplish several things:

To be your starting point-to give you a broad outline of important issues you'll deal with in caring for your child

Provide you with basic knowledge of these issues

Give you tools to create your own action plan

Point you in the right direction to get more detailed information

Woven throughout this publication are possible answers to a nagging question you probably wonder about, "Who will care for my child after I'm gone?" The answers are displayed in suggested actions to take so you can, ultimately, do the four things that matter most:

Protect your ability to make wise decisions as you care for your child and family

Create an environment of financial well-being for you and your family

Ensure continuation of your child's important benefits and care for the rest of his or her life

Through your own actions, demonstrate to your child how to be determined in accomplishing goals, and how to advocate for the best possible outcome in all endeavors

Developing your child's self-determination and self-advocacy skills will help create a solid foundation for your child's journey to adulthood and a life of happiness and fulfillment. There is a lot of information in this publication.

Use the buttons on the left to pick topics you need immediate help with.

We Invite You To Begin

Possibilities: A Financial Resource Guide for Parents of Children with Disabilities
This publication is intended to provide general financial information; it is not intended to substitute for, or supersede, professional or legal advice. The specific needs of every disability or life circumstance have not been covered in this publication. The best course of action must be based on individual circumstances. Note: The content areas in this material are believed to be current as of this publication's writing, but, over time, legislative and regulatory changes, as well as new developments, may date this material.

© 2010 National Endowment for Financial Education. All rights reserved.

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Possibilities: A Financial Resource For Parents Of Children With Disabilities

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This publication was created for parents of children under the age of 18 who have disabilities. It is a simple, straightforward resource to help you manage your money, and plan for your and your child's financial future and overall well-being.

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Special Ed Resource provides tutoring online for special needs students for all age groups. The curriculum is made to fit every child’s learning needs. The program is designed online so parents do not have to change their daily schedules. The website also provides articles such as Creative Writing Strategies for a Special Needs Student.

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Occupational therapists across the nation are facing the challenges of serving students with sensory needs at home. The Coronavirus pandemic has completely uprooted students with special needs from their day-to-day...

As we all know, life can be confusing and hard, often resulting in excessive worrying. Those times in life that provoke these feelings is hard enough for adults, but to...

For starters, if you are dealing with your child's meltdown and other negative behaviors, take a deep breath. They can be EXHAUSTING. A simple statement that was eye-opening for me...

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Occupational therapists across the nation are facing the challenges of serving students with sensory needs at home. The Coronavirus pandemic has completely uprooted students with special needs from their day-to-day... As we all know, life can be confusing and hard, often resulting in excessive worrying.

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Parent to Parent USA's mission is to provide emotional support to parents and families with children with disabilities or other health care needs. Parent to Parent builds communities for families who don’t have one. They match families with trained parents who can help them with their journey.

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Support for Parents of Children with Disabilities

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At Parent to Parent USA, when someone asks what we do, we say we empower and support parents, nationwide.

Why? Because we understand being a parent of a child with special needs can be a challenge - we've been there!

The journey is filled with hills and valleys and sometimes feels a little overwhelming. So, we're driven to ensure no parent feels alone. Ever.

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Home - Support for Parents of Children with Disabilities

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Parent to Parent USA provides emotional & informational support for families of children who have special needs.

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The Family Hope Center helps families with children who have neurological challenges and disorders. They provide parent training courses and develop plans that fit the child’s specific needs that strengthen the child’s cognitive, communicative, sensorimotor, emotional, social, and physiological development.

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The Federation for Children with Special Needs 

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The Federation for Children with Special Needs (FCSN) provides information and assistance to parents with children with disabilities from birth to adulthood.  FCSN provides families with assistance, training, and support. They also work with children in foster care, group homes, and children who are at risk.

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The Federation empowers families so that they have the information and resources they need for their children. We work with families with children from birth to adulthood, providing individual assistance, training, and leadership development and support. We focus on education, early intervention, health care, transitions, children in foster care and group homes, and building strong family engagement to support all children, especially those children with disabilities, those at risk, and those with economic, cultural or linguistic barriers.

Enter a keyword or phrase to search our website for resources, trainings or assistance.

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Federation for Children with Special Needs

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The Federation empowers families so that they have the information and resources they need for their children. We work with families with children from birth to adulthood, providing individual assistance, training, and leadership development and support.

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Family Voices is a family-led organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities. Their mission is to improve healthcare services and policies for children. They bring together family organizations in the United States that support families and friends of children and youth with special healthcare needs and disabilities.

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Family Voices is a national family-led organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and disabilities. We connect a network of family organizations across the United States that provide support to families of CYSHCN.

We promote partnership with families at all levels of health care-individual and policy decision-making levels- in order to improve health care services and policies for children.

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Family Voices is a national grassroots network organization of families and friends of children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities, promoting partnership with families-including those of cultural, linguistic and geographic diversity-in order to improve healthcare services and policies for children.

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The Autism Society was founded in 1965, their goal is to support the autism community. The Autism Society supports increasing employment for people with autism, monitors policies making sure children with autism have access to public education, access to affordable healthcare, those with autism live in affordable communities with support and accommodations, and they have a newsletter that provides information on federal regulations and legislations that involve people with disabilities, and they advocate to help people with autism live their best life.

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Autism Society Creating connections for the Autism community to live fully.

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We create connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully.

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Have Wheelchair Will Travel is a blog that was created by a mom who travels with her son who has a disability that requires him to use a wheelchair. She provides tips for the airport, travel insurance, activities that are wheelchair-friendly, questions you should ask a hotel and information the hotel may need to know before booking a hotel.

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We are a family sharing our travels, tips and experiences here at Have Wheelchair Will Travel. While we have a focus on travel we know that travel is a 'sometimes' activity for most of us, so we share our day-to-day tips and other fun in between.

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CPIR Center for Parent Information & Resources

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CPIR Center for Parent Information & Resources

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CPIR provides parents of children with disabilities with information and resources. CPIR has a resource library with over 1,200 materials on key topics such as early intervention and special education, IEP, transition planning, and much more. CPIR has a calendar with upcoming workshops and webinars.

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Finding the motivation to make positive lifestyle changes can be hard for anyone. For teenagers, it can be especially difficult when parents are the ones telling them to do it. But if they've fallen into unhealthy habits like vaping or alcohol abuse, change can be beneficial. Motivational interviewing is a form of therapy that creates a safe, non-judgmental environment for teens to establish their own goals and values and see how changing unhealthy behaviors can benefit them in the long run.

This series of articles comes from the Child Mind Institute, with most available in English and Spanish. Why might teens be resistant to therapy and how can parents and others to help them get the treatment they need? The articles explain how motivational interviewing can help teens gain the self-confidence to make important behavioral changes. To read more about motivational interviewing, and to connect with the articles in both English and Spanish, please visit CPIR's abstract.

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Center for Parent Information and Resources | Your Central Hub for Parent Centers Serving Families of Children With Disabilities

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Finding the motivation to make positive lifestyle changes can be hard for anyone. For teenagers, it can be especially difficult when parents are the ones telling them to do it. But if they've fallen into unhealthy habits like vaping or alcohol abuse, change can be beneficial.