Special Education

Student Services - Special Education Websites

Local (also local mental health and health department)

Parents to parents support and listserv for Colorado:

Home of the Where Do I Start? and Who do I Call? series

http://wwwp2p-co.org

Peak Parent Center is a federally funded parent training center

http://peakparent.org

Denver Metro Community Parent Resource Center another federally funded training center for linguistically and culturally diverse families (birth thru 26)

www.denvermetrocprc.org

The Legal center for People with Disabilities & Older People

Advice on legal rights

www.thelegalcenter.org

Colorado department of education (PEP:training for families,transition resources,2e resources)

http://www.cde.state.co.us/index_special.htm

 

National

NICHCY-National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities

http://www.nichcy.org

Pacer Center : Champion for children with disability

http://www.pacer.org

IDEA partnerships

http://www.ideapartnership.org/

Wrightslaw: information on the special education process and law

www.wrightslaw.com

 

Youth Planning

http://www.youthhood.org

http://www.going-to-college.org/overview/index.html 

http://mappingyourfuture.org/MiddleHighSchool/

 

Teacher Resources

Special Connections

http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/specconn/index.php

Universal design for learning

http://www.cast.org/

National Center for universal design

http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines

 

Transition resources

U.S. Office of Special Education Programs

http://osepideasthatwork.org/ParentKit/

National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center

http://www.nsttac.org/

Heath Resource Center A clearinghouse of resource for post secondary and disability resources

http://www.heath.gwu.edu

Association on Higher Ed and Disability

http://ahead.org

 

Disability related sites

Twice exceptional resources

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/2e.index.htm

Mental Health

http://www.empowercolorado.com

www.coloradofederation.org

http://www.nami.org

ADHD resources

http://chadd.org

Autism resources

www.autismcolorado.org

http://www.aspergersyndrome.org/

http://www.autism-society.org

Learning Disability resources

http://www.ldanatl.org/

http://www.ldonline.com

Mel Levine's sponsored site: research based ideas leading to success for all students

http://www.allkindsofminds.org/