Resources for Champaign
In this article from JAMA Pediatrics, physicians offer strategies that families can use to help children adjust to new routines and express their emotions.
The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides resources to help parents understand key terms, key laws and virtual learning on its website.
As schools close doors in response to COVID-19, parents and caregivers should be aware of key laws that protect your child’s rights to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) and existing frameworks that can support...
The Learning Disabilities Association of America provides information on how remote learning may affect college students with learning disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and what they can do to find the right support.
The U.S. Department of Education Department provides this transition guide to help students with disabilities and their families understand the years-long process and the options available to them as they prepare to leave public education....
The Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD) provides an online learning activity portal for students with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder.
The Illinois State Board of Education provides this resource guide to give some suggestions and ideas related to remote learning opportunities for students who have intellectual or multiple disabilities, including ideas that do not depend...
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) provides these tips for how parents can help children with speech and language disorders succeed in a virtual and or modified in-person learning environment. ASHA also provides tips for parents...
Teachers and administrators can take steps to meet the unique challenges that virtual and modified in-person learning environments will pose for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Both formats have challenges, but schools...
As families shelter in place due to COVID-19, children with hearing loss may need additional help. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) offers this guidance to parents, available in English and Spanish.