No matter how often a military parent is deployed, and no matter how well-prepared a child might be for a parent’s absence, children with disabilities may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of stress on their physical and emotional well-being.
This resource gives you details about situations covered by the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Use it to help you decide if you can apply the Compact to resolve a school issue for your child.
List of links that will help you find resources for employment, college, and government benefits agencies in any state to which you may move.
If your child isn’t attending a summer learning program, you may worry about how he or she will keep up while school’s out. But you can help reinforce your child's IEP goals, even if he or she doesn’t have school services in the summer. Here’s how.
Given the power that family involvement has to influence how our children achieve in school and in life, it’s not surprising that the nation’s special education law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), strongly supports parents’ right to be involved in the special education their child receives.
This fact sheet provides information on the significant amendments to IDEA made by ESSA. These amendments and other technical changes were incorporated in federal regulations published on June 30, 2017.
