FRCD PUBLICATIONS

Training Manuals

 

    How to Organize an Effective Parent/Advocacy Group 
    and Move Bureaucracies
- a 100 page handbook that gives step-by-step directionson how to organize a parent group from scratch - and actively involve membersto effect positive changes to improve services. 
($10 each + $2 postage/handling).
 
 

How to Get Services by Being Assertive

- a 100 page manual that demonstrates positive assertiveness techniques for staffings, IEP meetings, due process hearings, 
and other special education meetings. 
($10 each + $2 postage/handling).
 
 

Rehabilitation Act Manual

- a 178 page manual on the Federal Rehabilitation Act
and 1992 amendments under one convenient cover. 
($25 each + $3 postage/handling).


Special Education Manual

-a 268 page spiral bound manual which provides the final IDEA regulations that became available on March 12, 1999.
($25 each + $3 postage/handling).

 
 

      Pamphlets (Available in English and Spanish)
  • Does Your Child Have Special Education Needs?
  • How to Participate Effectively in Your Child's IEP Meeting 
  • How to Prepare for a Successful Due Process Hearing 
  • Tax Guide for Parents (available in English)
Pamphlets are free in single copies or available 5/$1.00. 
Please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope 
when requesting pamphlets.

Please call or write us at the address/phone number below, 
E-mail requests currently N/A 
Family Resource Center on Disabilities
(formerly Coordinating Council for Handicapped Children)
20 East Jackson Blvd., Room 300 * Chicago, Illinois 60604
312/939-3513 (Voice); 312/939-3519 (TDD); 312/939-7297(Fax)
800/952-4199 (Illinois only, Outside Chicago Area) 
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