With the extended school closures due to COVID-19 throughout the United States, students are having to learn in entirely new ways and facing challenges when it comes to learning during these unprecedented times. The Continuity of Learning resource database offers information, tools, and resources to help educators, parents and families, and related service providers meet the educational, behavioral, and emotional needs of children and youth with disabilities through remote and virtual learning.
Disproportionality in exclusionary school discipline is a longstanding challenge in general and special education. To reduce disproportionality in discipline in a way that produces measurable...
This guide includes the following sections: The Possibilities of Assistive Technology (AT); Assistive Technology in Schools; Funding AT; Quick Questions and Tips; Glossary of AT...
This is the Spanish version of the guide above, La Guía Familiar sobre Tecnología Asistencial, which includes the following sections: Las Posibilidades de la Tecnología...
This 3-page fact sheet provides an overview and many examples of academic accommodations and modifications for children with disabilities. This resource is a part of...
Accommodations are changes in testing materials or procedures that enable students to participate in assessments in a way that allows abilities to be assessed rather...
This is the Spanish version of the article that explains what are functional behavioral assessment and positive interventions for children with behavioral problems. Information about...
This document describes 15 principles for States, school districts, schools, parents, and other stakeholders to consider when developing or revising policies and procedures on the...
The U.S. Department of Education released a new resource to provide information and resources to enhance the promotion of mental health and the social and...
These guidelines are intended to serve as a tool for building a comprehensive infant and early childhood mental health system by creating a shared framework...
This paper addresses the impact of stress management on special educator wellbeing and retention, and provides examples of ways that educators and leaders may use...
Iowa’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Grant supports innovative partnerships to train school-based mental health service providers that serve both general and special education students...
This joint statement from the U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) sets a vision for stronger partnerships, collaboration, and coordination...
The Intervention IDEAs brief series describes interventions based on evidence, for practitioners and parents that address the academic, developmental and behavioral domains of infants and...
Institutional education plays a critical role in reducing recidivism and increasing post-release success for youth in correctional facilities. Because education is so important, correctional facilities...
This brief adapts the suggestions and strategies provided in Improving Attendance and Reducing Chronic Absenteeism to guide practice during remote instruction.
Various agencies at several levels of government are involved with providing services to youth with disabilities in correctional facilities and planning for their reentry into...
Youth with disabilities are disproportionately represented within correctional facilities, with nearly four times as many students requiring special education and related services in the adjudicated...
Overview and key principles of practice as they relate to facility-wide practices for juveline justice. Historically, juvenile correctional facilities have operated under a deficit- or...