Here you will find important documents to assist you in your personal advocacy efforts. Documents are sorted based on the age of the individual with a disability or by general or specific relevance. For example, some documents pertain only to Jefferson County schools. Other documents pertain to a more general audience. We believe these documents contain some real helps and supports, so please take a look.
General Advocacy
- Tips for Advocacy Assistance
- Social Security Explained
- How Social Security and SSI Disability benefits differ
- Individual Private Accounts Effect
- Civil Rights Fact Sheet
- Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP
- Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Educational Issues - General
- 99 Ways to Encourage a Child
- Accessing Students' Educational Records
- Administering Medications at School
- Children's Resource List
- Communicating at IEP Meetings
- Discipline of Students under IDEA
- Discipline--Applying the School Conduct Code
- Discipline--Behavior Assessments, Behavior Support Plans & Manifestation Determinations
- Getting Off to a Good School Start
- Helping the Middle Schooler Get Organized
- Hot Tips for IEP Meetings
- How Objective is the IEP?
- How to Use a Resource List
- Parental Consent and the IEP Process
- Planning for a Successful Meeting
- Preparing for an IEP
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
- Transitions within School
- Understanding Extended School Year
- Understanding Sensory Integration Issues
- What are "related services"?
Education--Specific to Jefferson County
- Charter Schools and Special Education
- Children's Resource List 2005
- Comparison between School and Adult Services
- Glossary of Special Education Terminology
- Jeffco Transition Services
- Schools of Choice
- Systematic Exclusion Contracts and Student Discipline
Adult Issues
- Conservatorship
- Guardianship
- What's Wrong with "Mental Retardation"?
- Direct Care Workers Fact Sheet
- Employment Fact Sheet
- Housing Fact Sheet
- Long Term Care Fact Sheet
- Medicaid Fact Sheet
- Voting
- Emergency Management
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