Toolkit
Bullying
- Disability and Safety – CDC's Information about Bullying.
- Help Your Child Recognize the Signs of Bullying – Pacer's.
- The IEP and Bullying – Pacer's.
Estate Planning
- Develop an Estate Plan in 15 Steps – Special Needs Alliance.
- Financial and Estate Planning for Children with Special Needs — Money Geek
- Future Planning 101 – The Arc's online planning tool.
- Nemours Financial Planning for Kids — Set up a Special Needs Trust to care for your child long term
Helpful Information
- Endless Possibilities - Office of the Public Guardian – A Comparison of Decision-Making Options
- Education Planner – Online help for parents to help a child made education and career decisions.
- Internet Safety 101 – Educate, Equip and empower.
- Sex Education – Teaching sexual health with confidence.
- Special Education Your Legal Rights Brochure — DECLASI
- The 411 on Disability Disclosure – A workbook for families, educators, youth services professionals and adults who care about youth with disabilities.
- When Should I Talk About Sex – Planned Parenthood.
Military Families
- Air Warrior Courage Foundation – Therapeutic Horse Riding Program for children with disabilities offered in a number of States.
- Childcare Assistance Program – Child Care Aware program information.
- Operation Building Hope – Making handicap accessible independent living.
- Believe in Tomorrow Children's Foundation – Serving critically ill children from military families.
- Exceptional Family Member Program – Military One Source guide for special needs families.
- Military Child Education Coalition – Ensure inclusive, quality educational opportunities for all military-connected children affected by mobility, transition, deployments and family separation.
- Military Family Association – Help for military families.
- Military OneSource – U.S military resources.
- Military Parent Technical Assistance Center – Branch serves military families of children and youth with disabilities.
- Military Teen Adventure Camps – Military teens (14-18 years old) will have an opportunity to participate in adventure camps. These high energy, high adventure, and high experience camps are planned across the United States from Alaska to Maine and from Colorado to Georgia as well as states in between.
- Moving With a Child With a Disability – FAQ's GACEC.
- Operation Autism – A resource for military families.
- Operation We Are here – Military family caregiver resources.
- Scholarships for Military Families – FASFA.
- Special Needs Military One Source – Assistance for military families with special needs children. They assist with education, financial planning, childcare and more.
- Special Education – Department of Defense.
- STOMP – Helping family members connect to information and support. STOMP provides information and help to military families (both in the U.S. and overseas) who have children with special needs. The STOMP staff is made up of parents of children with special needs who are trained to work with other parents of children with special needs. As spouses of members of the military, the staff understands the unique needs of military families.
Parenting Gifted Children
- 48 Essential Links for Parents of Gifted Children – Open Education Database.
- Hoagies Gifted Education – Information for parents of gifted children.
Please see our Gifted and Talented Section under Education.
Transition Checklist
- Brief Transition Checklist – Florida Hats for ages 12 – 18+.
- Checklists for Transition Milestones – Some are adapted from University of Illinois, Chicago.
- How Prepared for Type 1 Diabetes Self-Care Checklist – Type1 Diabetes checklist for your child.
- ILP Checklist – U.S. Dept. of Labor & Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) General guide for an employment ILP.
- TRAQ – Transition Readiness Assessment Tool that is a patient-centered questionnaire that providers and families can use to assess youths' ability to make appointments, to understand their medications and to develop other skills needed for transition to adult care. It is designed to be self-administered and it takes less than 5 minutes for youth to fill it out.
- Transition Health Plan for Youth with Disabilities and Their Families – This form is designed to help transition-age youth with disabilities and their families plan for youth to assume greater or full responsibility for their adult health care.
Transition Planning for Students with IEPs
- Developing Your Childs IEP – Center for Parent Information & Resources
- Educational Supports for Students – Delaware Department of Education steps to obtaining specialized services or educational supports for your child.
- Essential Elements of Delaware's IEP/Transition Plan – Delaware Dept. of Education IEP steps.
- Health Transition Planning & the Individual Educational Program (IEP) – Consider how the development of healthcare skills and connections to health care providers can be incorporated into his or her transition planning goals and the Individual Educational Program (IEP) process.
- "How Can My Child be Involved in the IEP Process?" – Pacer's Center.
- IEP Forms and Resources – Delaware Dept. of Education resources.
- Individualized Education Program (IEP) – Delaware's Dept. of Education.
- Policies and Procedures – Delaware Dept. of Education (DOE).
- Student Driven IEP: A 10-Step Guide – (DOE).
- Transitions after High School – (DOE).
- Transition-Driven IEP Process – Delaware Dept. of Education steps for transition including, post-secondary, PLEP, graduation planning, and annual goals.
- Transition in the IEP Process – Transition Services in IEP Examples for Indicator 13
- Transition Planning for Students with IEPS – Great Schools.org discusses how teens can learn how to achieve their post-high school plans.
Transition Process
- A Guided Tour of Career Cruising for Parents – Delaware Dept. of Education.
- Healthy and Ready for College! – This Think College brief can help families and youth discuss the need for youth to take greater responsibility for managing and making decisions about their healthcare when they are in college, and prepare for that transition.
- Assistive Technology and Transition Planning – Family Center on Technology and Disability guide explains transition terms, assistive technology and transition, gives you resources.
- Building Self-Advocacy and Self-Care Management Skills – Help your teen build the self-advocacy and health care self-management skills they need at home.
- Disability Resource Community – Platform for family members and caregivers to ask questions, share resources and build community.
- National Parent Center on Transition and Employment – Pacer Center.
- National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT)
- Operating the Transition Process: A Guide for Students and Families – Delaware Dept. of Education's guide to assist with the transition process.
- Parent Transition Survey – Addresses areas identified by federal law for transition planning.
- People Make It Happen – Transition Coalition Guide.
- Skills for Independent Living – Pacer Center's guide Parents Help Build Social Skills.
- Skills for Independent Living – Pacer Center's guide Parents Teach Personal Care Skills.
- Skills for Independent Living – Pacer Center's guide Parent Help Set Boundaries.
- Tips for Transition – Transition Coalition's resources to help your child.
- Transitions After High School – Delaware Dept. of Education Resources.
- What Does Health Have to Do with Transition? Everything! – Parent Brief developed by PACER for the National Center on Secondary Education Transition (NCSET) provides information on the benefits of and strategies for including health in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) process.
