Resources
Legal Resources
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“IDEA”)
· Frequently Asked Questions about Section 504
· Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”)
· Title IX
· Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
· Office of Dispute Resolution (“ODR”)
· Chapter 14 (Pennsylvania Code) Special Education and Programs
· Chapter 15 (Pennsylvania Code) Protecting Handicapped Students
· Chapter 16 (Pennsylvania Code) Special Education for Gifted Students
Parent Resources
ADHD
• What is ADHD? By the Center for Disease Control
Helpful books include:
• Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents (4th edition) by Russell A. Barkley Ph.D.
• Smart But Scattered by Peg Dawson, Ed.D. and Richard Guarre, Ph.D. and the website Books – Smart But Scattered Kids
• The Incredible Years: A Troubleshooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 2-8 Years by Carolyn Webster Stratton Ph.D.
• Understanding Girls with ADHD by Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D.
• The Organized Child: An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid’s Potential in School and in Life by Richard Gallagher and Elana Spira
• Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About ADHD (Third Edition) by Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ph.D. and Ellen B. Dixon, Ph.D. (ages 6-11)
• Sparky’s Excellent Misadventures: My A.D.D. Journal, By Me (Sparky) by Phyllis Carpenter and Marti Ford (ages 5-11)
Other helpful resources:
CHOP ADHD Clinic including 4-session ADHD Boot Camp Program for parents and 9-session Family School Success Program for parents.
Anxiety and Depression
Helpful books include:
• What to Do When You Worry too Much: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Huebner
• You and Your Anxious Child by Anne Marie Albano
• Freeing Your Child From Anxiety by Tamar Chansky
• For teenagers: My Anxious Mind by Michael Tomkins and Katherine Martinez
An online resources for parents of children and teenagers with anxiety is www.copingcatparents.com. This website provides free resources as well as a $125 program called Child Anxiety Tales, a ten-session web-based parent training program that helps parents of anxious children learning how to help their child better manage stress and anxiety.
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America www.adaa.org provides a central repository of informational resources about anxiety and related conditions.
Auditory Processing Disorder
Autism
Helpful books include:
• I am Special. A Workbook to Help Children, Teens, and Adults with Autism
• Spectrum Disorders to Understand Their Diagnosis, Gain Confidence, and Thrive (2nd Ed.) (Vermeulen; Jessica Kingsley Publishers).
Helpful websites include:
• Telling your child about and ASD diagnosis
Parent support groups include:
• Parents Helping Parents, a non-profit organization geared towards providing services for parents.
• Go here for education and support around research based, empirically-supported interventions for autism spectrum disorders, such as those described in the recently updated National Standards Project publication.
• Go here to review The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s CAR Autism Roadmap for additional information about ASD including treatments, therapies, and resources in the greater Philadelphia area.
Behavioral Support
• The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control by Leah M. Kuypers
• Behavior Support Plan
• Interventions & Supports
Bullying
• Parent Center Hub (bullying)
• schoolsaftety.gov (bullying & cyberbullying)
Downs Syndrome
• ndds.org (inclusive education guidelines)
• ndds.org (friendships & social relationships)
• https://www.ds-int.org/listing/category/inclusive-education
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
School districts rarely use the terms dyslexia and dysgraphia. Rather, school districts will find that your child has a specific learning disability in reading or writing. Unfortunately, many parents do not realize the wealth of resources available to support their child without knowing that their child struggles with dyslexia or dysgraphia.
• International Dyslexia Association
• Explanation of structured literacy
Audible books are available on
• To support orthographic mapping, Word Study Methods that Promote Orthographic Mapping (from Equipped for Reading Success) by Dr. David Kilpatrick.
• To support reading fluency, Read Naturally or Read Naturally Live
• To support writing instruction, Project Read’s Framing Your Thoughts provides tools for sentence construction and organization.
• For reading comprehension, Lindamood Bell’s Visualizing/Verbalizing Program teaches comprehension strategies
Helpful books include
• Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz,
• A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine, M.D.
• All Kinds of Minds by Mel Levin M.D
Epilepsy/Seizure Disorder
• Epilepsy Foundation Action Plan
Executive Functioning
Helpful books include:
• Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
• Smart But Scattered by Peg Dawson, Ed.D. and Richard Guarre, Ph.D. and the website Books – Smart But Scattered Kids
Genetic Diseases
• Angelman Syndrome Foundation
Gifted Support
Helpful books include:
• Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students by Fonseca
• A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children by Webb
Intellectual Disability
• Department of Human Services
LGBTQ Discrimination
• National Education Association
• The Trevor Project Survey on Mental Health
Migraines
• American Migraine Foundation
Mood and Personality Disorder
Helpful books include:
• The Explosive Child by Green
• Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility, and Happiness by Tamar Chanksy, Ph.D.
Nonverbal Learning Disability
• Social skills deficits are often part of a nonverbal learning disability. One helpful resource is Think Social! By Michelle Garcia Winner
OCD
• Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA)
• ADAA, The Not-So-Obvious Symptoms of OCD in School
Parent Support
For parents of children with ADHD, find parent support at
• CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders). For the nearest CHADD Chapter, call 800.233.4050.
• The National Resource Center on ADHD
• The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
For parents of children with anxiety:
• An online resources for parents of children and teenagers with anxiety
For parents of children with Autism, parent support groups include:
• Parents Helping Parents, a non-profit organization geared towards providing services for parents
Physical Disabilities
• National Science Teaching Association
• Thought Co (Tips for working with Children in Wheelchairs)
• Nemours (Kids Health)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Informed IEP and Behavioral Support
• National Education Association (Trauma Informed Schools)
• Help Traumatized Children Learn
School Refusal
Self-harm and Suicidal Ideation
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is the gold standard for suicidal ideation and self-harm. Creative Healing offers teen DBT.
Helpful books and resources include:
• Helping Teens Who Cut: Using
• DBT Skills to End Self-Injury by Michael Hollander
Social/Peer Support
• Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS)
• Michelle Garcia-Winner’s Social Thinking
Speech and Language/ Developmental Language Disorder/ Childhood Apraxia
Recommended resources include:
• Story Grammar Marker by Mindwing Concepts
• The SKILL Program by Sandra Gillam, the Expanding Expressions Tool
Tourette’s Syndrome
• Tourette Association of American
• CDC (Tourette’s Syndrome)
Twice Exceptional
Twice exceptional students often use their exceptional abilities to compensate for and mask their challenges complicating further school district obligations.