School Readiness Interactive Learning: Birth to 3
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A web-based, interactive learning tool designed to help parents and caregivers support their young children's early learning. You'll find age-based information on how children develop the four key skills-language and literacy skills, thinking skills, self-confidence and self-control-that are critical to later school success.
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Early Intervention to Special Education Pre-K
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Special-Education Pre-K to Kindergarten
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When your child nears the age your school district sets as the starting point for kindergarten (most likely, five years old) it's time again to think in terms of transition. For most children with special needs, this will mean a transition from a preschool program to a kindergarten program. It may also involve a transition from a partial day to a full day, from one school to another, or from one type of educational plan to another.
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Elementary School to Secondary School
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When your child leaves the cozy confines of elementary school for larger middle and high schools, it's a big transition -- both for your young student and for you. As a parent, you may be leaving behind special educators and team members who you've built a relationship with. In your child's years in elementary school, you may have learned your way around the system and figured out what works in that environment, and now the environment will be completely new
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Starting at age 14, your child's IEP should include plans for the transition from high school to college or work. Your child will be asked what he hopes to do with his future, and it will be a good idea for you to have had some conversations about that ahead of time. If your child isn't able to think that far or make those plans, start doing some research yourself about what programs might be appropriate. If your high school has a transition coordinator, that individual can be a big help in hooking you up with information and services.
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High School to Employment
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Augmentative Communication Survey
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The University of Kansas is conducting a survey of parents and caregivers to learn more about what kinds of maintenance activities they participate in (programming, updating software, etc.), who else might be responsible for those activities (speech-language pathologists, special education teachers, etc.), how they learned those skills, and what more they would like to learn. Take the survey or find out more information.
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| Contact Us | |
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 are for Kansas parents & education advocates
www.familiestogetherinc.org
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| Who are We? | |
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.
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| Family Employment Awareness Training | |
June 15 & 16, 2012
Lawrence
University of Kansas Burge Union June 15, 2012 - PART 1 June 16, 2012 - PART 2 Printable Registration On-line Registration | |
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| Family Enrichment Weekends | |
October 5-6, 2012
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