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DS Advocate Favorite websites that we recommend you take some time and go visit. Place them in your favorites on your computer or desktop and refer to them often. Each recommended website has lots of great resources to learn from. Enjoy!

 

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Mariah using a touch screen in school

These are the websites DS Advocates use and recommend to parents.
 
*This area is still under construction
with more websites to be added soon!

Wrightslaw
Peter and Pamela Wright
National Special Education Law website...this is THEE BEST RESOURCE for anyone to go and learn about Special Ed. Law! www.wrightslaw.com

National Down Syndrome Society

National Down Syndrome Congress www.ndsccenter.org

PODS Angels Support Foundation, Inc. (Down Syndrome Support) www.podsangels.org
 
SW Florida PODS Angels
Family Support

Florida Department of Education
 
* SP&P Guide * 
Special Programs & Procedures
For Exceptional Students in Broward County Florida
Print out YOUR VERY OWN COPY of Broward County Public Schools SP&P Guide!
 

Procedural Safeguards
for Student with Disabilities
(Revised July 1999 online version)
 
PRINT OUT AND PUT IN A 3 RING BINDER
*Highlight and mark up..read and re-read
 
To MANUALLY locate the SP&P guide in the main  Broward County School website http://www.browardschools.com and click the RESOURCE TAB it will be on your right hand side, it says: Special Programs and Procedures PDF. Another way is to look for the FDLRS RESOURCE. It's page 5 within the resource tab...make sure you look for the numbers at the bottom of the page and click on page 5...then look for Special Programs & Procedures...but if you want a QUICK LINK to it...click below.
 
BROWARD FDLRS RESOURCE
 
Lee County SP&P
 
 
Palm Beach County SP&P
Go to the main Palm Beach County Schools website and then Click INSTRUCTIONAL Web Sites Drop down list then says EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT EDUCATION
Click on Left side Silver bubble that says ESE DOCUMENTS
CLICK that and it takes you directly to the
SP&P Guide for Palm Beach County Public Schools.
 
Yes, I agree tooo many clicks, listed under 'not clear' exactly what one would be 'looking for'...
 
*  Please email us with your school districts SP&P guide direct link...we want these listed and available to all parents, teachers and students. Sometimes they will be on your local school districts website and sometimes they will not. Please locate them within your districts website, copy and paste the direct link page in an email to us, so we can make them easy for everyone to find here.
 
Parents, teachers and students (everyone!) need EASIER ACCESS to finding each County SP&P Guide on the Districts Public School Websites Online!
Find and print out your copy today!
 
Medwaiver INTAKE form. Print and fill out to get signed up on the MEDWAIVER WAITLIST thru the APD.
*When your child is 3 years old, you can sign them up for the Medwaiver Program. Contact your local APD office for more info.
The 5 qualifying eligibilities to be on the Medwaiver Program are:
                                                        1. Mental Retardation
                                                        2. Cerebral Palsy
                                                        3. Autism
                                                        4. Prader-Wili
                                                        5. Spina Bifida
 
FL CEIDD ~ Florida Coalition for the Education of Individuals with Developmental Disabilites. A group dedicated to improving special education in Florida.
 
 
Subscribe to FL-Ed-Advocacy and get involved with FL CEIDD!
 
SIGN UP & GET INVOLVED with this wonderful group of advocates!
 

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*This is our favorite websites page, if you know of a great website you think should be posted here, please email us and let us know. Looking forward to hearing from you!

my@dsadvocate.com 

 

 
Educational websites for
Children to Learn at Home!
 
Great Learning websites!

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Learning is so much fun!

Starfall
Great teaching website!
www.starfall.com
 
Billy Bear 4 Kids

Speech Therapy Fun!

Reading A-Z
www.readinga-z.com   Free downloads with subscription
 
Raz-Kids
www.raz-kids.com  Talking books some free & more with subscription

Tumblebooks
www.tumblebooks.com  Talking books some free & more with subscription

Yahooligans
www.yahooligans.com  Click on Language Arts and choose a story

Enchanted Learning
www.enchantedlearning.com subscription site--tons of worksheets &
activities

 
Math Websites:
 
 
 

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This page is still a work in progress, if you have any suggestions on wonderful websites you think would be good to have listed here, please email us and let us know.  We want to have a good selection of important websites and links available and easy to access for our parents.
 
Thank you!

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