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.
Families can use this resource to make a family schedule, choose family expectations, and make a plan to teach, remind, reward, and respond to behavior...
This guide provides tools and reflection questions for families and youth as they begin and continue to engage in the transition process. Reflection questions in...
These six guides and accompanying videos provide families and educators of students with disabilities with policy-informed information about facilitation, mediation, written state complaints, due process...
This video follows the stories of several parents and self-advocates as they address questions and concerns about supporting youth with disabilities as they engage in...
This guide provides a policy overview of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services, and highlights eligibility requirements as mandated by IDEA and WIOA to participate in VR...
This online module focuses on the process of developing high-quality IEPs for students with disabilities. Key topics include the requirements for IEPs as outlines in...
This online module focuses on the transition process from high school to post-secondary settings. Key topics include individualized education program planning, engaging students in the...
This policy overview of the IEP process provides recommendations for families to partner with their schools to support their children through the transition process, including...
In this presentation from the 2023 OSEP Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference, presenters provide an example of a student’s use of the tool, share how...
Belonging is experienced when students are present, invited, welcomed, known, accepted, involved, supported, heard, befriended, and needed. This resource provides reflection questions to assist practitioners...
School should be a place of belonging for each and every student. Belonging is easy to affirm, but much harder to define. This research-based resource...
This interactive tool provides an overview of data visualizations project staff and evaluators might use to present their data. Explore the modules below to learn...
This infographic document outlines how districts can examine discipline data, including exclusionary practices, among subgroups of students, to create "risk ratios."
High-quality data are timely, accurate, and complete. In addition, they are usable, accessible, and secure. Educators and representatives at the local, state, and federal levels...
Every year, OSERS collects data from state educational agencies as required by IDEA section 618, including data related to discipline practices. These data report key...
Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education has conducted the Civil Rights Data Collection to collect data on key education and civil rights issues in...
This document helps families of children who have an IEP ask questions to learn more about their child’s behavior in school. Sample questions and resources...