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District
Apalachee Mental Health Center
1421 South Dixie Highway
Perry, Florida
584 - 5613
Big Bend Transit
553 Byron Butler Parkway
Perry, Florida
584-5566
State
Florida Department of Education - Exceptional Student Education Department
This department oversees the exceptional student education program in the state of Florida
Florida Department of Education - Alternative Assessment
This Florida DOE website give valuable information about alternative assessment in the state of Florida.
Florida Department of Education - Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
The Florida DOE website will keep you up to date on ESSA and will provide the latest implementation information. You can also sign up for email updates.
Florida Diagnostic & Learning Resources Center (FDLRS)
FDLRS provides diagnostic and instructional support services for district ESE programs and families of students with exceptionalities.
Institute for Small and Rural Districts
ISRD provides training and technical assistance to support positive outcomes for students with disabilities and their families.
Florida Inclusion Network (FIN)
The Florida Inclusion Network (FIN) collaborates with all districts and schools to provide customized services and supports ensuring all students with disabilities have the same educational, social, and future opportunities as their peers.
FSU Center for Autism & Related Disabilities (CARD)
FSU CARD is dedicated to providing individuals with Autism or related disabilities, their families, and professionals who work with them, free consultation, resources, and educational support to build knowledge, confidence, infrastructure, and sustainability within the community.
FSU Multidisciplinary Center
The Multidisciplinary Center serves pre-school and school-aged children who are experiencing severe and/or complex academic, medical, and/or behavioral/emotional problems.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) is a federal-state program that helps people who have physical or mental disabilities get or keep a job. VR is committed to helping people with disabilities find meaningful careers.
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
The Agency for Persons with Disabilities supports persons with developmental disabilities in living, learning and working in their communities.
Access to the Common Core for Exceptional Student Success (ACCESS) Project
The website provides lesson planning, instructional tools and professional development in the Common Core Standards for teachers to support positive outcomes for students with significant cognitive disabilities taking the Florida Alternate Assessment.
Family Café (Cooperation, Advocacy, Friendship, and Empowerment)
The Family Café exists to provide individuals with disabilities and their families with an opportunity for collaboration, advocacy, friendship and empowerment by serving as a facilitator of communication, a space for dialogue and a source of information.
Learning through Listening Project (LtL)
The purpose of this project is to provide digital audio textbooks and equipment to students who cannot read standard print due to visual, perceptual, physical, or learning disabilities. The project also facilitates support services and training to administrators, teachers, parents, and students on the use of this technology provided by Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic).
Multiagency Network for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities (SEDNET)
SEDNET is devoted to facilitating the creation of a comprehensive "system of care" for high-risk students and students with emotional/behavioral disabilities and their families.
Resource Materials and Technology Center for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Outreach Services provides support services to school district personnel, parents and families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or visually impaired. Available support services include training, information, referral services, and student assessments.
Parents of the Panhandle Information Network (POPIN)
POPIN provides information, training, and support to parents of children with disabilities in select isolated, rural areas of Florida. If you have Facebook you can also search for them on it.
The Center for Parent Information and Resources
The Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) serves as a central resource of information and products to the community of Parent Training Information (PTI) Centers and the Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs), so that they can focus their efforts on serving families of children with disabilities.
Disability Resources
This website's mission is to advance the quality of life, dignity, eqaulity, self determination, and freedom of choice of persons with disabilites through collaboration, education, advocay, as well ass legal and legisaltive strategies.
National
National Resources for Parents of Children and Youth with Disabilities
This website is a clearinghouse of nationwide resources to assist teachers, parents of students with exceptioanlities.
Support for Families
This website is a clearinghouse of nationwide resources to assist teachers, parents and students with exceptionalities.
Library of Congress Resources
This website is a clearinghouse of nationwide resources to assist teachers, parents and students with exceptionalities.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
This website is the federal government website about IDEA.
Learning Disabilities of America (LDA)
LDA’s mission is to assist students, parents, educators and professionals with the many needs of a student with learning disabilities.
Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks mission is to assist students, parents and educators with the many needs of a student with Autism.
Family Network on Disabilities
The mission of FND is to strive for the complete integration and equality of persons with disabilities in a society without barriers and to serve families of children with disabilities, ages birth through 26, who have the full range of disabilities.
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