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AWAREness |
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Volume 1 |
March 2007 |
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Providing parents of children with disabilities with information, training, assistance, and support
1021 Delaware Avenue Palm Harbor, FL 34683 1-888-61-AWARE
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Assisting with Achieving Results in Education (AWARE)
Overview of the Region 2 Parent Training & Information Center (PTI)
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In This Issue
Assisting with Achieving Results in Education (AWARE)
IDEA Informational Website
6 Principles of IDEA
Parent Corner
Call for Calendar Postings
Tips for Managing Conflict
A Portrait of Your Child
Section 504
Dr. Suess on IEP’s
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. Infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-2) and their families receive early intervention services under IDEA Part C.
Children and youth (ages 3-21) receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.
A great source of IDEA information can be found at: http://idea.ed.gov/
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embody the underlying spirit and intent of IDEA and provide the framework around which special education services are designed and provided to students with disabilities.
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Parent Corner
Do you have a story you would like to share with AWAREness readers?
Have you got ideas or tips that have worked for you that may work for other parents?
AWAREness is happy to dedicate a corner of the newsletter to publish articles from parents that will provide support and encouragement to other parents.
If you have something you would like to share, please send an email to the editor: diane@cflparents.org
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Do you have a meeting or event that you want to advertise? Post it on our calendar. It’s free! For information on how to get started, go to: www.cflparents.org/calendarpage.htm
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Ten Tips for Managing Conflict To be a safe and predictable person for those around you at work and at home, it is essential that you are able to maintain your composure when you feel like your “buttons” are being pushed
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Writing a Portrait of Your Child
To be an effective advocate for your child you must learn how to be on an equal footing in the IEP Meetings. You must be able to articulate your concerns and thoughts, which means careful preparation. Click the link to read an article that provides great tips and strategies to writing a portrait of your child: www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/1580/preparing_for_iep.html |
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504 is a federal law designed to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education (ED). Section 504 provides: "No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States . . . shall solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance . . . ." For more information on Section 504, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html
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Click on the link above and have a few giggles as you read this article written in the style that brought us joy in our younger years.
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