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Parent to Parent USA is a group that matches each parent with a fellow parent who has a child with the same special healthcare need, disability or mental health concern, allowing each parent or family to have a contact for sharing information, receiving support and creating new friendships. “Parent to Parent USA has local groups in almost all states, and is great for connecting families with each other for emotional support,” notes Smith.

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2. Resource Guide for Parents of Students with Disabilities

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2. Resource Guide for Parents of Students with Disabilities

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This resource holds several different types of guidance for parents of students with disabilities. It first explains ADA, Section 504, IDEA and IEP, then breaks down the protections students with disabilities have, whether or not your child needs an Educational Plan and the difference between them (504 vs IEP), and finally ended with Expert Q & A: Advice for Parents of Students with Disabilities.

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3. Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of Children with Disabilities

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3. Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of Children with Disabilities

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On this website parents kind find a summary of their rights and responsibilities of various parts of Special Education that will effect their child. The resource first focuses on parents' rights in the special education process, as a whole, and then transitions  into their responsibilities within the special education process. The last part of this website outlines how a parent can be involved in the IEP or IFSP process.

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According to the Parenting Advocacy Network, Family Voices, "aims to achieve family-centered care" for all children with special needs. Family Voices provides families with the "tools to make informed decisions" about healthcare and education, build partnerships between families and their service providers and serve as a trusted resource on healthcare. They also help families learn to advocate for improved policies to best serve children with special needs. One of their main goals is to empower young people with disabilities so that they may become self-advocates for various causes that affect those with special needs.

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This specific article can be found on the Center for Parent Information & Resources which contains a plethora of valuable resources for Parents with students with disabilities. This one in particular focuses the basics of the special education process and gives  information on how a parent can be an effective partner with your child’s school. The topics the article covers goes as follows, the IEP process, the IEP document, deciding your child's placement, and participating in the IEP meeting.

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Understood is an amazing non-profit dedicated to serving the millions of families of kids who learn and think differently. Their goal is to help the millions of parents whose children, ages 3–20, are struggling with learning and attention issues. They want to empower them to understand their children’s issues and relate to their experiences. With this knowledge, parents can make effective choices that propel their children from simply coping to truly thriving. This particular resource is their "For Families" section on their website. There are 4 different topics that are each filled with several articles that parents can sift through. The topics include are titled Learning and Thinking Differences, School and Learning, Friends and Feelings and You and your Family.

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7. The Family Hope Center: About the Services

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7. The Family Hope Center: About the Services

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The Family Hope Center's goal is to partner with parents in the process of nurturing their child to reach her/his full potential. Their approach is to teach, guide, and support parents in developing effective, customized and integrative plans for both families and children. Each individualized plan is designed to fit the specific needs and to help foster your child’s cognitive, communicative, sensorimotor, emotional, social, and physiological development. This particular page gives information about the services they can provided by The Family Hope Center. This is a great resource for parents to start with to see if they are interested in one-on-one services from The Family Hope Center.

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8. The Family Hope Center: Video Library 

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8. The Family Hope Center: Video Library 

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The Family Hope Center has a video library that contains an Education Series as well as a Q & A series. Within the Education Series there are 9 different videos and each one focuses on a different type of disabilities. There are 7 Q & A videos that are each about a hour long. This series covers a range of questions that parents have about their child and their child's education.

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9. National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education

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9. National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education

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National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education (NAPCSE) is a national membership organization dedicated to rendering all possible support and assistance to parents whose children receive special education services, both in and outside of school. NAPCSE was founded for parents with children with special needs to promote a sense of community and provide a national forum for their ideas. The website linked is the Resources for Parents section of the website. This is a great starting point for parents to get valuable information as well as learn about what the NAPCSE can provide for them and their child.

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10. 9 Parental Rights In The IEP Process

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10. 9 Parental Rights In The IEP Process

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This resource is a very simplistic broken down list of the rights a parent has in the IEP process. This is a quick read that is presented in an easily digestible format.
It starts by explaining that parents whose children are aged 3 to 21 years and have a disability are entitled to different rights when it comes to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). These rights are typically referred to as procedural safeguards and are extended to a child’s guardians along with the student themselves as long as they’re at least 18 years of age. From here it goes into detail about the different types of rights within IDEA.

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11. VIDEO- Revealed; Expert IEP Secrets Tailored Toward YOU | Special Education Resource 

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11. VIDEO- Revealed; Expert IEP Secrets Tailored Toward YOU | Special Education Resource 

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This video is taken from the specialedresource.com where their goal is to fill a gap between the needs of parents who have children with special needs and resources available today. They offer supplemental learning through special education tutoring who takes the curriculum a child is being taught in their traditional class and molds it to fit their unique learning needs. The video discusses what sort of guidance they can provide when enrolling in their service.

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12. VIDEO- IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: History and Summary 

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12. VIDEO- IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: History and Summary 

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This is a short 3:30 minute video that describes the IDEA history and summarize it for parents. The information is presented with simplistic cartoon like graphics making it easy the information easier to understand. Special education law is not easy to decipher, with several regulations that govern special education services for disabled students. The video will help parents learn about the core components of the laws, rights, and individual education plans that can help create the best public school environment for their child.

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https://www.p2pusa.org/

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https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/resources/parents-students-disabilities/

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https://www.readingrockets.org/article/rights-and-responsibilities-parents-children-disabilities

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https://spanadvocacy.org/programs/f2f/

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https://www.parentcenterhub.org/pa12/

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https://www.understood.org/pages/en/families/?_sp=f2d461ce-4125-4984-aa46-77c926144091.1615827461790

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https://familyhopecenter.com/about-our-services/

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https://familyhopecenter.com/video-library/

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http://www.napcse.org/resources.php

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https://specialedresource.com/9-parental-rights-iep-process/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nibSnTfZRTA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XMndYNEGFA