MPACT Offices are Closed for the Holidays
Monday, December 25, 2023
through Monday, January 1, 2024
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MPACT's Featured Webinar Series | | |
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Parent Participation
We believe that a child's best advocate is their parent! This is why it is so important for parents to participate in their child's IEP meeting. Even IDEA includes the wording that schools "...shall take steps to ensure that one or both of the parents of a child with a disability are present at each IEP meeting..." To learn more about parent participation at IEP meetings, click HERE.
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Sensory Snowstorms
The holidays can be difficult for children with sensory processing needs. Understood.org has some wonderful resources to make this holiday season easier. Click HERE to be directed to the article.
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From our Friends at CADRE | |
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Following OSEP’s release of a Q&A on IDEA Part B Dispute Resolution in July 2013, CADRE was asked to create a set of companion resources for parents and families. In response, CADRE developed six parent guides and a process comparison chart with the support of parent leaders from across the country. These guides explain facilitation, mediation, written state complaints,and resolution meetings, and expedited due process complaints.
Click HERE to access more information.
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Guide to MO Assessment Program (MAP) | |
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The Guide to the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) is a source of technical information, timelines, and resources for administrators, district testing coordinators (DTCs), teachers, and parents of Missouri public school students. Click HERE for MAP information.
For students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, MAP-A is administered. Using DESE-established eligibility criteria, the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) team determines qualifications for MAP-A. Click HERE for MAP-A information.
To access the current version of the 2023-2024 Guide in PDF form, click HERE.
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Military-Connected Families | |
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Moves for military families are usually associated with the spring and summer months, a natural break in the school calendar. However, almost half of military transitions are midyear moves, often during the winter holidays. For a wintertime move, the anticipation that initiates the Season of Leaving may begin in August or September. This means a student could begin the school year with visions of moving trucks dancing in their head. Click HERE for some tools and tips for creating smooth transitions for a midyear move.
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Families of military-connected children with disabilities may have the added challenges of frequent separation from family and support networks and disruptions in the continuity of early intervention services as well as special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because of frequent transitions.
Click HERE to learn of resources from OSEP that can help to support states, parents, families, and others to meet the unique needs of military-connected children with disabilities and ensure the timely provision of required early intervention and special education and related services.
Click HERE for a Letter from OSEP Director Valerie C. Williams on Military-Connected Children with Disabilities
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Challenging the School to Prison Pipeline | |
Resources on Reaching and Serving Students with Disabilities in Juvenile Justice
Click HERE to visit Parent Center Hub
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Governor's Council on Disability | |
Youth Leadership Award
The Youth Leadership Award recognizes an outstanding Missouri youth with a disability (age 16-26) who has demonstrated exemplary leadership by engaging in activities that improve the quality of life of people with disabilities in their communities in Missouri.
The nomination form and criteria for the Youth Leadership Award are available HERE,
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Inclusion Award
This award is presented annually to recognize private and public employers, individuals, businesses or organizations that have worked toward greater disability inclusion by taking exceptional, proactive, and innovative measures to integrate and mainstream people with disabilities into their programs, activities, and operations.
Click HERE for the nomination form.
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Transition to Adult Life Resources | |
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RAISE Youth Advocate for Change (YAFC) Podcasts
Members of the YAFC talk about the importance of youth telling their personal story as it relates to their disability. When a youth shares their story, it can be empowering and challenging at the same time. Click HERE for the Pilot 1 Episode- The Power of Personal Stories.
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Life is full of transitions, and one of the more remarkable ones occurs when we get ready to leave high school and go out in the world as young adults. When the student has a disability, planning ahead for that transition is especially helpful. In fact, IDEA requires it. Click HERE to learn about the transition from Center for Parent Information and Resource (CPIR). | |
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Upcoming MPACT Webinars in January
Click on the links below to register
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The Art of Effective Advocacy
January 4, 2024 from 10 am to 12 pm
St. Charles City-County Library, McClay Branch
2760 McClay Rd, St Charles, MO 63303
The Art of Effective Advocacy
January 11, 2024 from 6 pm to 8 pm
The Library Center, Grafton Conference Room
4653 S Campbell Avenue, Springfield, MO 65810
Steps to Success: Family Record Keeping
January 18, 2024 from 6 pm to 8 pm
The Library Center, Grafton Conference Room
4653 S Campbell Avenue, Springfield, MO 65810
Understanding the IEP Process
January 23, 2024 from 10 am to 12 pm
Veterans Elementary School
790 Veterans Rd, Hannibal, MO 63401
Understanding the IEP Process
January 25, 2024 from 6 pm to 8 pm
The Library Center, Grafton Conference Room
4653 S Campbell Avenue, Springfield, MO 65810
View all upcoming MPACT training HERE
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Steps to Success Webinar Series
This series of trainings was developed for parents of children, birth to age three. The training series helps parents understand the First Steps Program, teach them
effective communication and advocacy skills, and helps them prepare for
Early Childhood Special Education.
Click HERE to register for these FREE on-demand trainings.
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MPACT is funded in part or whole by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Grant No. H328M090020-10. The contents of the website, however, and any documents cited herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.
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