District 11 Educational Support Services
Special Education

~~Resources~~

Parent & Community Resources  

Below are resources from the Colorado Department of Education Exceptional Student Leadership Unit. 

Alphabetical Index of Special Education Topics
Parent Information
Colorado Special Education Directors (Listed by School District)
Special Education and Gifted/Talented- Chart School Information & SpEd Guidebook
Special Education Law
Exceptional Student Services Unit
Educational Rights of Parents (.pdf file)   
Educational Rights of Parents
(Spanish, .pdf file)
Exceptional Student Leadership Unit (Special, Gifted/Talented, & Early Childhood Programs)
The Role of Clinical Diagnoses in the Educational Identification of Disabilities-
Fast Facts
(.pdf file)
Related/Support Services Information
The Sibling Support Project of the Arc of the United States

CDE Information on Specific Disabilities   CDE Logo

Autism
Blindness/Low Vision
Deafblindness
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
English Language Learners with Exceptional Needs (ELLEN)
Specific Learning Disabilities (Previously Perceptual Communicative Disabilities)
Significant Identifiable Emotional Disability (SIED)
Speech-Language

National Organizations  

Autism Society of America
National Autism Association
United Cerebral Palsy
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
Council for Exceptional Children
Learning Disabilities Association of America
National Coalition on Auditory Processing Disorders
Parent to Parent USA (P2P-USA)
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Spina Bifida Assocation

District 11 Board Policy  

Special Education/Programs for Handicapped/Disabled/Exceptional Students
Special Education/Programs for Handicapped/Disabled/Exceptional Students (Tutoring)
Disciplining of Students with Disabilities
Special Education Student Transportation

                                                                                                                                                                               

~~More News~~

The Sibling Support Project of the Arc of the United States is pleased to announce SibNet and SibKids. SibNet and SibKids are the Internet's only listservs for and about brothers and sisters of people with special health, developmental, and emotional needs You can learn more by visiting the following website: http://www.siblingsupport.org 

Both SibKids (for younger brothers and sisters) and SibNet (for older siblings) allow brothers and sisters an opportunity to connect with their peers from around the world. Both listservs have members from the US, Canada, Australia, England, Japan and elsewhere. SibNet (started in 1996) and SibKids (started in 1997) are remarkably warm, thoughtful, and informative communities where young and adult brothers and sisters share information and discuss issues of common interest.

Anyone who has email can subscribe to SibKids and SibNet. For a no-cost subscription and to learn more about SibKids and SibNet, please visit the Sibling Support Project's Web Page (see address below). Finally, if you have further questions about SibKids, SibNet, our Sibshops, or the work of the Sibling Support Project, please contact:

Don Meyer, Director
Sibling Support Project
6512 23rd Ave NW #213
Seattle, WA 98117
206-297-6368
donmeyer@siblingsupport.org

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"Hitch your wagon to a star."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone, and greater strength for our nation."
~ John F. Kennedy

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
~ Helen Keller



"Disability is natural. We must stop believing that disabilities keep a person from doing something. Because that's not true . Having a disability doesn't stop me from doing anything."
~ Benjamin Snow, Grade 8, Woodland Park, Colorado, in an essay entitled "Attitudes About People with Disabilities" (Jan 19)

 

We, the stakeholders of Colorado Springs School District 11, will work in partnership to provide high quality instruction for all students and help each student to reach his or her full potential as part of their lifelong learning.