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The Connecting Point
Volume: 4 Issue: 9 Date: March 14, 2007
The Connecting Point is an email update service from the CORE (Choices, Options, and Resources, Education) Project of Washington PAVE (Parents are Vital in Education). The Connecting Point provides information, resources and updates to help transitioning students and adults with disabilities, their families, schools, and other organizations and agencies understand services and options available for adults needing additional supports.
In This ISSUE:
1) Information and Resources for Girls and Young Women with Disabilities
2) Medicare Update: Help Paying for Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
3) Linkages to Benefits Planning, Assistance, and Outreach Services
4) Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities: Parents' Materials
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1) Information and Resources for Girls and Young Women with Disabilities - Includes information on becoming independent, learning disabilities and stories shared by young people living with a disability. This information has recently been updated, and is now available - http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=159
2) Medicare Update: Help Paying for Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage - People with Medicare who have limited income and resources may qualify for extra help paying for Medicare prescription drug coverage costs. If they qualify, they will get help paying for their drug plan's monthly premium, yearly deductible and prescription co-payments. This information has recently been updated, and is now available - http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=142
3) Linkages to Benefits Planning, Assistance, and Outreach Services - Assuring that consumers are linked to effective benefits planning is a critically important initial step for organizations focusing on competitive employment outcomes. Individuals with significant disabilities who have a clear understanding of the impact of income through employment on cash and medical disability benefits can make informed choices in considering competitive employment.
http://www.t-tap.org/strategies/benefits/benefits.html
4) Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities: Parents' Materials - The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services at the U.S. Department of Education has released a CD version of the Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities: Parents' Materials, designed to assist parents and states in their efforts to work together to raise the achievement of all students with disabilities.
The Parent Tool Kit compiles materials identified to augment the previously released CD, Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities, and offers a collection of resources on the same substantive areas addressed, including assessment, instructional practices, behavior, and accommodations. These new documents were written specifically for parents and include information they need as they work with schools to ensure that their children are receiving a quality education. The material may be downloaded.
Tool Kit for Parents on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities.
http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/parentkit/index.asp
Tool Kit for Educators on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities.
http://www.osepideasthatwork.org/toolkit/index.asp
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