An online survey is being conducted to better understand the perceptions of and satisfaction with the transition services your child receives in middle school or junior high school, FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE! Your child must be in 6th - 9th grade and currently receiving special education services. After you complete the entire survey (approximately 20 minutes), you will be prompted to enter a raffle to win one of SIX $25 gift certificates to Wal-Mart. Click here for the survey

Empowering Youth for Independence What Families Can Do

Growing up with a disability is not easy, but with the right supports children and youth with special health care needs or disabilities can grow up to be independent and successful!

Questions? Call Heather at 785-296-4747 or email at hmoore@kdheks.gov Register:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/518204777

Upcoming Conferences

Back (Where have we been?) to the Future (Where are we going?) and (What do we have to do to get there?) Conference - Conference participants will be motivated to answer the urgent challenge to dare to be different and rethink what community inclusion means for everyone. More Information!

Easter Seals Sponsored Conferences

Designing Effective Sensory Diets for Home, School, & Community

April 7-8, 2011- Lise Gerard Faulise, MS, OTR/L, BCP (a protégé of Patricia Wilbarger) - 14 contact hours pending approval from KOTA and KPTA; KDHE approved - $275

Linking Play to Function...Utilizing Neurodevelopmental and Sensory Integration Strategies to Facilitate Functional Skills through Play

June 10-11, 2011 - Lezlie Adler, MA, OTR, FMOTA - 13.5 contact hours pending approval from KOTA and KPTA; KDHE approved - $300

More Information!

• Executive Functioning: "What is this anyway?'
• Understanding the Executive Functioning and School
• Video of overview of iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Applications for children with special needs
• List of iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch applications and cost
• iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch applications for special education
• MedicalHome@Works Newsletter

Families Together, Inc.

Topeka Center

(785) 233-4777 or (800) 264-6343 

Garden City Center

(620) 276-6364 or (888) 820-6364

Kansas City Center

(913) 287-1970 or (877) 499-5369

Wichita Center

(316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364

Statewide Spanish parent line

(800) 499-9443 

Wichita Administrative Center

(316) 945-7747 or (888) 815-6364

(All toll free numbers for Kansas parents & education advocates)

www.familiestogetherinc.org

Families Together, Inc. is the statewide organization that assists parents and their sons and daughters with disabilities. Our program's mission is to encourage, educate, and empower families to be effective advocates for their own children.

Families Together, Inc. is dedicated to a society that includes and values all people. We offer families the security of belonging to a support network of other parents that face similar goals, challenges and needs.