Article: GreatSchool: 8 Steps to a Successful IEP Meeting
This article covers eight useful strategies to help parents effectively prepare for an IEP meeting.
Webpage: GreatSchools: Autism and Other Disorders
GreatSchools is a national non-profit organization that works to guide and support parents to solve education-related problems.
Guide: Organization for Autism Research: Kit for Kids
OAR’s Kit for Kids guide is designed to teach elementary and middle school students about their peers with autism. The kit is centered around an illustrated booklet entitled “What’s Up with Nick?”
Article: Kennedy Krieger Institute: Speech Emerges in Children on The Autism Spectrum with Severe Language Delay
This article discusses the new findings published in Pediatrics by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders.
Website: Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)
COPAA engages in special education advocacy to ensure that children with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education.
Website: Advancing Science, Serving Society: Entry Point!
This program identifies and recruits students with disabilities studying in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and some fields of business for internship and co-op opportunities.
Fact Sheet: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services: Transition Data
The Transition Data Fact Sheet is intended to be a reference tool to inform OSERS staff and the transition community about critical data areas related to the transition of youth with disabilities from school activities to post-school activities.
Guide: Indiana Resource Center for Autism – Making Choices: Exploring Campus Recreational and Social Opportunities
This guide is intended to help college students with autism and other developmental disabilities navigate through the different steps associated with finding new recreational activities on campus.
Website: Ability Online
Ability Online is a free, monitored online community for kids, teens and young adults of all abilities.
Website: The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
This Center works to help states build and implement sustainable programs and best practices that will yield positive results in dropout prevention, reentry, and school completion for students with disabilities.
