Resources Information Special Education Long Island

10/20/2025

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

10/16/2025

IDEA is in danger. Guaranteed free and appropriate public education is in danger.

07/12/2025

https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2025/July/Autistic-Adults-Overwhelmed-by-Nonverbal-Social-Cues

In a new study, published in PLOS One, autistic adults describe the intense mental effort it takes to navigate nonverbal communication. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and Rowan University, reviewed 362 firsthand...

07/01/2025

https://www.eifamilies.com/early-intervention-program-overview-sigh-up
New York State
Early Intervention Program Overview
Information Session
SIGN UP for either Monday July 7th @ 7-8pm OR Tuesday, July 29th
Click on the link for registration. From the website "Please complete the information below to sign up for the New York State Early Intervention Program Overview Virtual Session. Please choose the one date and time that you will be attending the virtual session. You will receive a zoom link a few days before the training. Please reach out with any questions at 631-205-0502 or AngelamFurci@justkidseclc.org We look forward to meeting you. "

Family Initiative Coordination Services Project is to facilitate, support, and develop parent involvement at all levels of the Early Intervention Program for childhood disabilities

07/01/2025

https://www.eifamilies.com/early-intervention-program-overview-sigh-up

New York State
Early Intervention Program Overview
Information Session
SIGN UP for either Monday July 7th @ 7-8pm OR Tuesday, July 29th
Click on the link for registration. From the website "Please complete the information below to sign up for the New York State Early Intervention Program Overview Virtual Session. Please choose the one date and time that you will be attending the virtual session. You will receive a zoom link a few days before the training. Please reach out with any questions at 631-205-0502 or AngelamFurci@justkidseclc.org We look forward to meeting you. "

07/01/2025

The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is moving closer to a Senate vote—and it puts Medicaid, and the services people with I/DD rely on, at risk. 📢 Take action now: https://action.thearc.org/hiwngo4

06/17/2025

“On Monday, the Boston Globe reported that the Senate version of New Hampshire’s two-year budget bill contains language that “would prohibit public entities from supporting any program designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities.” The reason? An attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion by state House and Senate Republicans.

“The Senate’s anti-DEI provisions would prohibit state and local government entities from supporting any program related to efforts to improve ‘demographic outcomes’ for people with physical or mental disabilities,” writes Boston Globe reporter Steven Porter.”

It's part of an anti-DEI attack.

06/12/2025

https://www.copaa.org/news/703436/

COPAA celebrates a major victory for students with disabilities and their families. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on June 12, 2025 in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools in favor of the family of a student with a disability, holding that “ADA and [Section 504] Rehabilitation Act claims based on edu...

06/11/2025

This , explore YETI’s Difficult Conversations Guidebook—a practical resource to help youth and allies navigate challenging discussions with confidence and respect. Packed with real-world scenarios, reflection prompts, and communication strategies, it’s designed to support self-advocacy and productive dialogue in transition planning and beyond.

Download the guide: https://yen.transitionta.org/wp-content/uploads/eri-files/handout_difficult-conversations-guidebook_v2.pdf?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_tqevgqwbah

06/11/2025

The Trump administration is quietly working to fast-track changes to a key disability rights law by circumventing typical procedures, advocates are warning.

06/07/2025

NY isn’t far behind NJ in segregating students with disabilities.

Students with disabilities, and those without, can learn side by side. But New Jersey keeps them apart more than any other state in the nation.

05/25/2025

Autism Webinar
June 6 2025 Free Autism Webinar Register Here: https://nysrcasd.org/events/1499/registrations/new
9:00 AM 10:15 AM
The 360 Thinking Model: Breakthrough Strategies to Develop Independent Executive Function Skills - Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP

Whether your student needs to complete tasks, classwork, or homework, in this practical strategies seminar you will learn concrete tools to help students manage their attention, time, and materials to follow directions, plan, break down, and initiate the steps towards completing and closing out assignments. Help students keep pace to make timely transitions and follow routines. Practical strategies will be given to help with the initiation of more open ended and complex assignments. Learn dozens of practical strategies to support students in developing independent executive function skills to self-regulate and manage impulses.

Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP has over 25 years of experience in diagnostic evaluations and treatment of executive dysfunction. Ms. Ward holds a faculty appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Sarah is an internationally recognized expert on executive function and presents seminars and workshops on the programs and strategies she has developed with her Co-Director Kristen Jacobsen. Their 360 Thinking Executive Function Program received the Innovative Promising Practices Award from the National Organization CHADD. She has presented to and consulted with over 1700 public and private schools worldwide."

We are excited to announce that Sarah Ward will be back on June 6th! Free registration at www.owautism.com