Resources to take action and collaborate in the best interest of children.
Finding an Advocate
Being a Parent Advocate
- Parent Advocacy at School: 8 Steps (opens in new tab)
- Be an Effective Advocate for your Child (opens in new tab)
- 10 Actionable Tips (opens in new tab)
- Advocating for Your Child: Getting Started (opens in new tab)
- Advocacy: 9 Rules of Thumb (opens in new tab)
- Endrew F Advocacy Talking Points (opens in new tab)
- 12 Rules for Writing Great Letters (opens in new tab)
- Filing Complaints (opens in new tab)
- How to Review Your Child's Educational Record (opens in new tab)
- Back To School: 10 Tips for a Good Year (opens in new tab)
- What Happens When You Reject an IEP? (opens in new tab)
Youth Advocacy
- Student Self Advocacy and IEP Meetings (opens in new tab)
- What is Self Advocacy? (opens in new tab)
- YO! Disabled and Proud (Instagram) (opens in new tab)
- NCLD Youth (opens in new tab)
- National Association of the Deaf Youth Leadership (opens in new tab)
- MA Advocates Youth Leaders Fellowship (opens in new tab)
- Youth Celebrate Diversity (opens in new tab)
Restraint and Seclusion
Discipline
- Discipline Rights (opens in new tab)
- 504 Discipline Guidance (opens in new tab)
- What is a Manifest Determination? (opens in new tab)
- School Discipline Laws in MA (opens in new tab)
- Suspensions, Expulsions, and IEPs (opens in new tab)
- IDEA Guidance on Discipline 2009 (opens in new tab)
- Discipline and 504s (opens in new tab)