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SEL Resources from NCLD (National Center for Learning Disabilities

 

Text on an orange background reads 'Best Buddies is offering: Self-Advocacy Training!'

This self-advocacy workshop is presented by Best Buddies, an organization that helps facilitate inclusion among individual students at schools and workplaces.

 

Assistive Technology Resources

The OCPS Assistive Technology Team has created training videos for the TouchChat and Proloquo2Go apps that many of our students use for AAC/communication on iPads. If you have a student using one of these apps and would like to know more about programming and backing up student files, see this flyer for details. You will find a link to a YouTube channel with several short training videos on programming steps and backing up students’ vocabulary files.

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TouchChat & Proloquo2Go Information and Training Video Links

 

A banner for the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of Central Florida, advertising upcoming online parent education seminars and support groups.

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Parent Engagement Resources

  • The Parent Resource Guide Print Version is a flyer that schools can print and disseminate to parents and teachers for awareness of resources available to them to increase family engagement within a multi-tiered system of supports.

  • The Parent Resource Guide Digital Version is for downloading and works great for parents and teachers who want to view and access a variety of specific resources to increase family engagement within a multi-tiered system of supports.

The OCPS parent services program for Exceptional Student Education is a parent to parent partnership funded through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. For more than ten years, this program has offered peer support, community resource access, District information important to families, and acted as a conduit between schools and families in need. The program is designed to empower parents to advocate for their own children and to help parents teach their children self-advocacy skills.

 

Availability is important, so our team answers emails and takes parent phone calls at all hours, seven days a week. The parent services program is administered only by parents of CPS students with disabilities who contract with the District and are not employees. These services for support and information are available to families in both English and in Spanish.

Transition from Early Steps

Social Emotional Learning Links with Tips for Parents of Students with Disabilities