Families Together, Inc.
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 Upcoming Events

Making the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference

The first parent-teacher conference of the school year provides a great opportunity for you and your child's teacher to share insights and information. At this meeting, you can develop a relationship with the teacher and present yourself as a team player in your child's education. If your child has a learning disability and receives special education services, it's essential that you make the most of the conference with the general education teacher. Because most teachers schedule 30 minutes or less for each conference, planning ahead can help you maximize the experience.  Read more here.

Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning

Being able to focus, hold and work with information in mind, while filtering distractions and switching gears in the brain is called executive functioning--a group of skills that helps to focus on multiple streams of information at the same time and revise plan as necessary.  Watch this great video from Harvard University on how these skills are developed, disrupted and how you can support them.

InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning
Tomorrow at Families Together
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Education Advocate Training
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Independent Living Resource Center, Wichita

Find out about more Families Together events on our website and Facebook page!

9 Rules of Thumb when Advocating 

for Your Child with a Disability

It can be very difficult for parents of children with special educational needs to advocate calmly and objectively for the educational and related services their children need. Here are a few rules of thumb from Wright's Law. 

Contact Us

Topeka Parent Center                       

(785) 233-4777 or (800) 264-6343      qr code

Garden City Parent Center 

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

Kansas City Parent Center         

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

Wichita Parent 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.

 

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Families Together, Inc.

 

Education Advocate Training

October 16, 2012

Wichita

 

E3 Series--IEP Basics

November 1, 2012

Kansas City

  

Holiday Extravaganza

November 3, 2012

Garden City 

*Looking for vendors, models and talent!

 

Pilgrim Pacer Race

November 10, 2012

Kansas City

 

Bringing It All Together Conference

December 1

Wichita

  

Team Empowerment Conference

February 8

Pittsburg

 

Statewide Conference

March 8-9, 2013

Topeka 

 

Family Enrichment Weekend

April 19-20

Wichita

 

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Serving Kansas families and their sons and daughters for more than 30 years. 

 

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 children.