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Being the parent of a child with learning disabilities can be difficult. The task requires time spent learning about your child's disability, figuring out what strategies work best for them, working with teachers and school officials, and much more. All of this is important to help your student become a successful student and member of society. The intent of this website is to expose you to resources that can be useful for your student at home and in the classroom as well as providing information about your role in your child's learning.

The Legislation section of this website will offer you information about your legal role in your child's learning. The IDEA websites will explain your rights as parents in your child's education.

The Parent Resources page offers information on how you can help your child in the home and in the classroom. It offers resources about parenting issues and various disabilities as well.

The Resources to Help Students page offers various information about colleges and scholarships as well as games and articles that can help teach your child or their siblings about disabilities.

The Terms and Definitions page offers important information to help you understand what the school officials are explaining to you. Special education has various abbreviations and terms they use. This page will provide you with some of these abbreviations and what they mean. Some links are also posted to extended information about the terms.

The Tools for Your Student contains mostly free online tools that can help your student with literacy, math, organization, and studying. The page also provides information about various software online that could be beneficial for your student as well as tutorials for the software.

The UDL and AT page will explain to you what universal design for learning (UDL) and assistive technology (AT) is.