District
State
Federal
District
www.bsd.k12.de.us
Main page of
Brandywine School District. This is worth checking out from time to
time even if you have no particular need to look up something on the
site because the home page changes regularly featuring different
articles highlighting some of the various programs in the district.
In addition, there is a regularly published Superintendent's
Message. From this site you can read a copy of the
district's Strategic Plan and see
the agendas for upcoming School Board meetings or read the minutes
of past ones. Fall of 2005, the district added a Special Education page to the district site.
As trivial as it sounds, we like to check out the breakfast/lunch menu
on-line when we can't find the copy on the fridge.
www.redclay.k12.de.us
Main page of the
Red Clay Consolidated School District.
www.christina.k12.de.us
Main page of
Christina School District.
www.colonial.k12.de.us
Main page of
Colonial School District.
State
www.doe.k12.de.us/programs/specialed
Special Ed page of the Del DOE site. Surf
around this page for resources and information about Special Ed in
Delaware. Here you can download the Administrative Manual for
Special Education Services (AMSES), check out some self assessments
on how Delaware is doing on the Special Ed front, find the staff
directory for Special Ed in the Delaware DOE and more. For the
Delaware Department of Education (DOE) home page, see www.doe.k12.de.us. There are lots of useful
links off this page including the State DOE staff
directory.
www.picofdel.org
Parent Information
Center (PIC) of Delaware. A Delaware based
state wide non-profit with lots of information on disabilities,
rights of parents and kids. If you have an organization looking for
presentations, check out the list of PIC's offerings. They also offer
one-on-one consultations and informative "Learning Opportunities".
PIC is dedicated to providing information and support to families
who have children with disabilities or special needs. In addition to
helping kids and their families, their goal is to promote
partnerships between families, educators, policy makers and the
community.
www.doe.k12.de.us/SchoolImprovement/SES/SES%20main.htm
This
is the Delaware DOE's Supplemental Educational Services page. No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandates title 1 schools "in need of
improvement" provide supplemental tutoring to their students. This
page describes the program in Delaware. Information from the Federal
DOE can be found at throughout their website www.ed.gov and in
particular here.
www.doe.k12.de.us/programs/specialed/sig
Delaware's
State Improvement Grant (SIG) is a 5 year program where the U.S.
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has focused on
Delaware's literacy and reading skills with the additional goal to
increase Inclusion. This page of the State DOE web site has a copy
of the grant and what is supposed to be accomplished as well as a
yearly written evaluation that is sort of a report card on what
progress is or is not being made with the millions of dollars the
Federal government has given Delaware for Special Ed as part of this
grant.
www.state.de.us/ddc
Delaware
Developmental Disabilities Council. The Council is authorized by
Public Law 106-402 to address the unmet needs of people with
developmental disabilities through system-wide advocacy, planning
and demonstration projects. The Council advocates to other state
agencies and communities to help make sure issues from insurance to
disaster planning consider the perspective of citizens with
disabilities.
www.ipa.udel.edu/crp/sparc-mediation.html
Special
Education Partnership for the Amicable Resolution of Conflict
(SPARC). This is a mediation facility through the University of
Delaware that helps resolve conflicts between parents and schools
related to IEPs prior to a formal Due Process
hearing. See our FAQ
page for more on SPARC. Always remember, the better
prepared you are with the facts and your documentation trail, the
stronger you position in any negotiation - including
mediation.
www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss
Delaware
Health and Social Services. This State agency is a kind of umbrella
which offers services that may be helpful for some special needs
kids. Some examples are Child Development
Watch, an intervention program for children 1-3 years old
with disabilities or developmental delays, the Children's Community Alternative
Disability Program which provides Medicaid under some
circumstances and the Division of Developmental
Disabilities Services which provides services for
specifics disorders for individuals and families who meet certain
criteria. The site, www.delawarehelpline.org, offers additional
information along similar lines to some of the DHSS agency
pages.
www.state.de.us/scpd
The mission of the State
Council for Persons with Disabilities is to unite, in one Council,
disability advocates and State agency policy makers to ensure that
individuals with disabilities are empowered to become fully
integrated within the community. The "Information" section on the
left side of the page provides access to a set of letters to the
legislative and executive branch commenting on proposed legislation
and regulations and is a good place find the consolidated list of
pending changes that might affect people with disabilities along
with an the good and bad points of the suggested change as they
relate to people with disabilities.
www.nichcy.org/stateshe/de.htm
This is a
list of state agencies for Delaware maintained by the National
Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY). It has
several dozen listings and is supposed to be kept up to
date.
diss.state.de.us/DWS/public.diss
This
site allows you to get instant email notification of Delaware school
closings, delayed openings, etc. It works for many private schools
as well as public ones. Getting an email pushed to you is easier
than having to listen to the radio or check other web sites. If you
have a cell phone that accepts text messages, you can have the
notifications sent to your phone. Getting the information
delivered to your cell phone or work email comes in very
handy when a decision is made at noon because of heavy snowfall
or broken pipes.
www.state.lib.de.us/Collection_Development/LBPH
Delaware
Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has information on
obtaining books in braille or on tape. In addition, the U.S. Library
of Congress supports the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped that will send book through the U.S. Mail for
free.
www.delcode.state.de.us
This is the
online copy the Delaware Code. It includes the laws on Education in
Title 14. There is
separate web page regarding Delaware's
Regulations, which can be as important as the law
itself.
Federal
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep
US
Department of Education (DOE) Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Office of Special Education Programs
(OSEP). This is the wing of the US DOE responsible for Special Ed,
IDEA, etc. There are lots of Federal docs off the OSEP page. For
example, here is an index of mandated annual reports to Congress on
implemation of IDEA that includes state-by-state comparison: www.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/osep/index.html.
For a broader view of the US DOE, you can check out the main page at
www.ed.gov. If you need the details of any
education regs since 1995, check out the US DOE Federal Register at
www.ed.gov/news/fedregister/index.html.
While it is not strictly page off the DOE site, www.ideadata.org contains some of
the data from the annual reports to Congress without the report
itself. OSEP's IDEA page is www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html.
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDRR) conducts research and related activities
to maximize the full inclusion, social integration, employment and
independent living of individuals with disabilities.
www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
Us
Department of Justice American with Disabilities Act (ADA) home
page.
www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
Federal No
Child Left behind information page from the Federal DOE.
www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/index.html
The
Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) is the federal dept that
enforces the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html
Federal
IDEA information page from the Federal DOE. There many sources on
the web with the text of the
law.
www.disability.gov
The New Freedom Initiative
page directed federal agencies to create this interagency web site
to link the many Federal sites and programs for people with
disabilities.
www.dol.gov/odep
The Department of Labor's
Office of Disability Employment Policy provides national leadership
by developing and influencing disability-related employment policy
and practice affecting the employment of people with
disabilities.
www.osepideasthatwork.org
Ideas
that Work from the Office of Special Education Programs created this
What Works page to provide easy access to projects they've funded on
behalf of IDEA and NCLB.
www.nimh.nih.gov
National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH). Part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Check out the
Publications page.
www.nidcd.nih.gov
National Institute on
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).Part of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Information on hearing, speech, voice,
balance and more.
www.ninds.nih.gov
National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Part of the
National
Institutes of Health (NIH). There is a comprehensive,
although not extremely detailed, page of Neurological Disorders that is a great place to
get some basic information and follow-up links.
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dd
Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities page of the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC)
www.ncd.gov
The National Council on Disability
(NCD) is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the
President and Congress to enhance the quality of life for all
Americans with disabilities and their families. There are some good
papers on the publications page of the site.
www.federalresourcecenter.org
The
Federal Resource Center is the umbrella organization for a number of
federally sponsored efforts - many of which have their own links
somewhere on this site.
www.rrfcnetwork.org
The Regional Resource and
Federal Centers (RRFC) Network is made up of the six Regional
Resource Centers for Special Education (RRC) and the Federal
Resource Center (FRC). This ties together lots of Federal
initiatives - check out their Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D)
Network page for links to some of those
initiatives.
catalog.gpo.gov
Comprehensive catalog of US
Government publications. This lists on-line docs, including
congressional testimony as well as documents in libraries. For
library docs, it helps find the closest copy.
thomas.loc.gov
This page from the Library of
Congress is names after Thomas Jefferson and allows you to search
pending legislation as well as Congressional Committee reports,
resolutions and a host of other information.
uscode.house.gov
US House of
Representatives site that publishes the US Code - the laws passed by
Congress. The statues related to educating children with
disabilities is Title 20, Chapter 33.
The text of the statues can
also be found on a Cornell Law School site. Another index of Federal
statues and regulations can be found on the Fedlaw section of the Center for Regulatory
Effectiveness website. The US DOE website, has a link to proposed and final regulations.
www.regulations.gov
This site is supposed to
contain all the regulations for all the departments of the Federal
govenrment, inlcude the Dept of Ed. While that may be true, finding
things is not easy.
www.gpoaccess.gov
The Government Printing
Office site is the on-line arm of the Federal government's
information center. The Federal Register
page can be found on this
site.
