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Notice of Privacy Practices (PDF): This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

Parent Rights in Special Education: Procedural Safeguards (PDF): This document describes your rights as the parent of a child who has or may have a disability.

CPS Fee Schedule (PDF). The KUCPS Fee Schedule for 2007 - 2008.

Parent Advocacy Websites

http://specialchildren.about.com/od/specialeducation/f/iepfaq06.htm What should I bring to an IEP meeting? This website describes the necessary materials needed to attend your child’s IEP meeting.

http://www.kidsterrain.com/advocacy_special_needs_child.php?gclid=CNatv8TmmI4CFQQiIgodrzBnTw Information on special education services, learning disabilities, and parent advocacy.

http://helpmyteen.com/index.html?kw=Parent%20rights&gclid=CNuDzoTnmI4CFThhIgodDxx2Tw Help My Teen is an organization that specializes in counseling and connecting families with appropriate situations for their troubled teen. This organization has programs available that have been able to direct many besieged and divided families towards healing and unification to a common goal - that of appropriate and positive relationships with self and within the family and structure of society.

http://www.pacer.org/ The PACER Center seeks to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families. They provide assistance to individual families, workshops, materials for parents and professionals, and leadership in securing a free and appropriate public education for all children.

http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMpubs-INCLUSION.html Inclusion & Parent Advocacy: A Resource Guide is an extensive, annotated resource guide designed to help librarians, educators, parents, and other service providers identify publications and audiovisual materials that will help them understand, plan, and implement inclusive programs.

http://childparenting.about.com/od/makingtreatmentdecisions/index.htm This website includes information and resources for making decisions about treatment when your child has serious emotional or behavioral problems.

http://www.peakparent.org/resourceMaterials.asp This website contains a series of documents, prepared by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) in the U.S. Department of Education that covers a variety of high interest topics and regulatory requirements from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

http://www.coping.org/specialneeds/advocacy.htm Tools for Parents of Children with Disabilities and Special Needs: This website helps answers questions regarding parental advocacy, from what it is, to how to become one.

http://www.parenttoparentofga.org/roadmap/advocacy/advocacyadafacts.htm This website provides facts and information about the Americans with Disabilities Act.