For more topics, please visit our Special Needs/Early Start page.

Apraxia

Family Start Guide

Autism

ABA:Parents' Guide to Applied Behavior Analysis

• Evidence Based Practices
• Evidence Based Practices (chart) (Spanish)
• Social Narratives
• Visual Supports
• Learn the Signs 
• Mental Health in Autistic Youth 
• Mental Health in Autistic Youth - SPANISH
• ​Screen Your Child for Autism
• Video - CAPTAIN is a multiagency network developed to support the understanding and use of Evidence-Based Practices for individuals affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder across the state.​​​

Behavior Support

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• ​Functional Behavioral Assessment and Positive
• Handling Your Child's Challenging Behaviors at Every Age (Enlgish, Spanish, Russian)
• PBIS World
• Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment of Behavior     
• Teaching Young Children Self-Control Skills​

bullying

• IEP and Bullying
• Notifying the School about a Bullying Incident

Dyslexia

IDA Dyslexia Handbook: What Every Family Should Know

Executive Functioning

• Helping Kids Who Struggle with Executive Functions
  
• Parent's Guide to Supporting Your Child's Executive Function Skills
• Understanding the Link: Executive Function and School
  

Learning Disability

• LDonline.org
• Nonverbal Learning Disorderspa.dyslexiaida.org/
• Understood.org

Sensory Processing Disorder

• ​What is Sensory Processing?

Social Skills

• Activities to Help Your Child with Social Skills
• How to Help Kids Make Friends
• Social Language Use (Pragmatics)
• Social Skills (do2learn)

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