Parent Self-Determination Guide

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Good Starting Point for Basic Information

Untangling the Web - Where Can I go To Get Disability Information?
http://www.icdi.wvu.edu/others.htm

Self-Determination

Center for Self-Determination
http://www.self-determination.com/

OHSU Center on Self Determination
http://www.ohsu.edu/oidd/CSD/

How Parents Can Support Self-Determination
http://www.alaskachd.org/toolkit/toolkit/foundations/parentspara.html

Person-Centered Planning

Fast Facts on: Developmental Disabilities
http://www.moddrc.com/Information-Disabilities/FastFacts/personcenteredplanning.htm

Person-Centered Planning: A Tool for Transition
http://www.ncset.org/publications/viewdesc.asp?id=1431

Transition

Best Practices in Planning for the Transition from School to Adult Live for Youth with Disabilities
http://old.transitioncoalition.org/bestpractices/index.shtml

Gretchen Everhart School - Best Practices - Transition Services
http://www.everhart.leon.k12.fl.us/ts_bestprac.htm

Transition and the IEP
http://old.transitioncoalition.org/bestpractices/session1.php3?pages=6&page=session1_6

Transition Coalition
http://www.transitioncoalition.org/

Western Regional Resource Center - A Process for addressing Transition Requirements in the IEP
http://interact.uoregon.edu/WRRC/trnfiles/IEPProcess.htm

Youthhood.org
http://www.youthhood.org

Alaska Resources

Anchorage School District Students, Teachers, and Parents (STeP) Center
http://www.asdk12.org/depts/step/

Department of Education and Early Development Special Education
http://www.educ.state.ak.us/tls/sped/home.html

Department of Health and Social Services
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/

Disability Law Center
http://www.dlcak.org/ourservices/

Division of Behavioral Health
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dbh/

Division of Public Assistance
http://health.hss.state.ak.us/dpa/programs/apa/

Division of Senior and Disabilities Services
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dsds/ 

SET For Life http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/SPED/SETforLife/TableofContents/TableofContentsWeb.html

University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Human Development
http://www.alaskachd.org/

National Resources

The Beach Center on Disability
http://www.beachcenter.org/

Family Village - A Global Community of Disability-Related Resources
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Everything you need to know about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
http://www.come-over.to/FAS/

The George Washington University Health Resource Center National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities
http://www.heath.gwu.edu/

Inclusion.com - Inclusion Press, Inclusion Network, Marsha Forest Centre
http://www.inclusion.com/

National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
http://www.ncset.org/

NICHCY - National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
http://www.nichcy.org/

NIDRR - National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/nidrr/about.html

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/index.html

Proposed regulations for IDEA '04 published in the Federal Register 6/21/2005.
(This is temporary until the final regulations are approved.)
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-11804.pdf

Pacer Center
http://www.pacer.org/

Social Security Administration
Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool
http://best.ssa.gov/

Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
http://www.ssa.gov/notices/supplemental-security-income/text-understanding-ssi.htm

TASH - Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
http://www.tash.org/

Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
http://www.taalliance.org/index.htm