This infographic shares steps to help parents coach their child’s literacy learning at home. Tips on providing feedback and offering other coaching support to break down difficult tasks are provided. Learn more.

Resource: Office of Special Education Programs Technical Assistance Network

This resource (PDF, 7 pages) highlights OSEP-funded centers that help support the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and provide technical assistance (TA) services to families, schools, districts, and states. The document outlines: Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) centers Parent Training and Information centers Educational Technology, Media, and Materials centers Personnel ...

Resource: Fast Facts: Children Identified with Intellectual Disability

This webpage explores data on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The webpage examines data on children whose primary disability is intellectual disability. Learn more.

Resource: Dear Colleague Letter on General Supervision Responsibilities

This letter provides guidance to states to ensure the rights of students with disabilities and their parents are protected. The letter describes states’ general supervision responsibilities to ensure that all students with disabilities have access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) that emphasizes special education and related services designed ...

Resource: Deaf 101

This module provides participants with resources to increase their awareness of the ethnic and cultural diversity within the deaf community. This module examines identity and intersectionality among deaf people from lived experiences of deaf people. This module provides tools for students, instructors of deaf students, professionals with deaf coworkers, managers ...

Resource: Discipline and Behavior Blog Series

The director of the Office of Special Education Programs launched a new blog series that will explain topics of interest related to the discipline and behavior guidance package released by her office this past summer. The blog series will discuss topics such as alternatives to exclusionary discipline, informal removals, discipline ...

Resource: Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs: Evidence-Based Practices for Educators

This practice guide summarizes evidence-based, positive, and proactive practices that support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs in classrooms and similar teaching and learning environments (e.g., small-group activity). Included are a self-assessment, examples of critical practices in elementary and secondary settings, scenarios that illustrate implementation, and ...

Resource: Improving Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities in Juvenile Corrections

This toolkit includes evidence- and research-based practices, tools, and resources that educators, families, facilities, and community agencies can use to better support and improve the long-term outcomes for youth with disabilities in juvenile correctional facilities.

Resource: Branch Military Parent Technical Assistance Center

MPTAC helps parent centers in their work supporting military families.

Report: 2012-13 Publicly Reported Assessment Results for Students with Disabilities and ELLs with Disabilities

This report analyzes how states publicly report online assessment data for students with disabilities in K-12 schools in the United States.

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