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Navigate Life Texas: Resources for kids with disabilities and special needs
Navigate Life Texas: Resources for kids with disabilities and special needs
It’s time for your child’s ARD meeting. This is an emotional time for many families. Here are some Ideas for being prepared.
Categories: Education & Schools
Children – with and without a disability – go to school to prepare for life: continued education, employment and independent living. Do you have a vision for your child’s future? Does your child’s Individualized Education Program or IEP move your child closer or farther from that vision?
Categories: Education & Schools
The Individualized Education Plan (IEP) is the foundation for your child's education and future. You are a very important member of the committee that develops the plan.
Categories: Education & Schools
Through a lot of tears, grace and coffee, we had a good experience with remote learning. Perfect? Absolutely not! But the positives have outweighed the negatives.
Categories: Education & Schools
When our kids start school, they might need to be assessed for special education services. Sometimes this isn't needed until they've been in school a few years. The school district must identify and evaluate all children with disabilities. Once identified, they must be provided a Free Appropriate Public Education or FAPE.
Categories: Education & Schools
My child’s school district recently did an overhaul of their 18-plus program for Special Education and named the program Encore, which couldn’t be more fitting.
Categories: Education & Schools, Transition to Adulthood
As the mom of a 10-year-old child with an alphabet soup of diagnoses, I am no stranger to dealing with anxiety.
Categories: Education & Schools
After 16 years in public school my son graduated, a memory our family will always cherish.
Categories: Education & Schools
What can be accomplished with the right support and vision is amazing. My son wanted to be in the band. This is his story – and ours.
Categories: Education & Schools