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Kindergarten & Elementary Transitions

Transitioning into kindergarten and into the elementary grades may pose new challenges for students and their parents and/or caregivers. This page provides information and resources to help you feel empowered and make the transition as smooth as possible.
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Title: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (VDBVI)
Description: Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (VDBVI) is committed to providing quality services to assist Virginia's citizens who are blind, deafblind or vision impaired in achieving their maximum level of employment, education, and personal independence. The department provides an array of specialized services to blind Virginians of all ages to assist them in attaining the skills, confidence and positive outlook that are critical to independence.
Title: Choosing Outcomes of Accommodations for Children (COACH): A Guide to Educational Planning for Students with Disabilities, Third Edition, 2011
Description: COACH is better than ever! Now with practical updates based on user feedback and a new streamlined format for easier use, the third edition of this bestselling guide can be the key to effective educational planning for students with intensive special education needs in inclusion-oriented schools.
Title: Do2learn- A resource for individuals with special needs
Description: Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills. In addition, we offer premier products including View2do, JobTIPS, and books. We believe that simply telling busy teachers, parents, and professionals what they should be doing is not enough.  Within each topic, we provide the hands-on resources needed to...
Title: Kids' Zone (National Center for Education Statistics)
Description: The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
Title: Families USA- The Voice for Health Care Consumers
Description: Families USA is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. We partner with organizations and individuals across the entire spectrum of the health care community to achieve our mission.
Title: Exceptional Parent Magazine (EP Magazine)
Description: Exceptional Parent Magazine provides information, resources and inspirational stories for families of individuals (from infancy to elderly) with disabilities and special healthcare needs, and the education and medical professionals who care for them. Exceptional Parent (EP) Magazine disseminates information through its monthly print and digital magazine, monthly newsletter, and social media posts: Facebook (Exceptional ParentMag), twitter.com/epmzine and Instagram (epmzine)....
Title: Autism Spectrum Disorders (Virginia Department of Education, VDOE)
Description: A child may be found eligible for special education and related services as a child with autism if there is an adverse effect on the child's educational performance due to documented characteristics of autism spectrum disorder. Children with a medical diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders must be found eligible for special education and related services under IDEA before an Individualized Education Program (IEP) is developed. Children who are suspected of having a disability should be referred...
Title: Benefits.gov: Your Path to Government Benefits (English and Spanish versions)
Description: The Benefit Finder questionnaire can help you find benefits you may be eligible to receive and direct you to the agency to apply. Disaster Relief Healthcare and Medical Assistance Financial Assistance Loans
Title: Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination
Description: The Zarrow Institute on Transition & Self-Determination at the University of Oklahoma strives to promote successful transition outcomes for all by implementing innovative research, putting findings into practice, and disseminating knowledge through high-quality products and professional development.
Title: The disABILITY LAW CENTER OF VIRGINIA (dLCV): Protection & Advocacy for Virginians with Disabilities
Description: The disAbility Law Center services include information and referral, legal representation, technical assistance, short-term assistance, systemic advocacy, monitoring and training.  Our services are provided free of charge.  We are independent from state and local government. The disAbility Law Center of Virginia’s mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with...
Title: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - Information and How to Apply (Social Security Administration) Available in Spanish
Description: The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability or blindness who have income and resources below specific financial limits. SSI payments are also made to people age 65 and older without disabilities who meet the financial qualifications. Information provided: Who is Eligible for SSI? How SSI Works How to Apply for SSI Still Have More Questions about SSI?
Title: I'm Tyler..don't be surprised (a peek into a real kid’s life where people just like you have realized what a kid CAN do is much more important than what he can’t)
Description: Tyler is a typical high school student who happens to have cerebral palsy and some other challenges. He has taken on a mission to educate the world about Ability Awareness. He believes that what a person, any person, CAN do is much more important than what he/she can't. The people in Tyler's life who have seen this and practiced Ability Awareness have made all the difference in the world to him. His mission started as an Eagle Scout Project and has grown to a dream.