Special Education Resources for Families

Standardized Testing Accommodations

This website page from the California Department of Education describes all the available supports for CAASPP assessments:

https://www.caaspp.org/ta-resources/accessibility/index.html

The SART tool lists every universal tool, designated support, and accommodation along with recommendations for use with specific disabilities. It's on the AAO webpage:

https://www.sfusd.edu/access-all-students

Special Education Parenting Resources

Support for Families Workshops and Support Groups

We ensure that families, professionals and the community have access to knowledge they need about specific disabilities, navigating systems, current research, best practices for care, laws and regulations for family centered care and inclusion.

Additude - Inside the ADHD Brain

Comprehensive guide to parenting a child with ADHD - everything you need to know about oppositional defiance, positive parenting, school and learning challenges, health and wellbeing, social skills, executive functions, treatment & more.

Ross Greene - Lives in the Balance

Lives in the Balance is the non-profit organization founded by child psychologist Dr. Ross Greene, originator of the empirically supported Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) approach to parenting.

CA Dyslexia Guidelines

The guidelines are to be used to assist regular education teachers, special education teachers, and parents to identify and assess pupils with dyslexia, and to plan, provide, evaluate, and improve educational services to pupils with dyslexia.

Dr. Dan Siegel Mindsight Institute

The Mindsight Institute provides a scientifically grounded, integrated view of human development to promote the growth of healthy minds.

Hand in Hand Parenting

Parenting in the time of Coronavirus. Resources, Support Calls, Practical Tools to Help at Your House Now

Types of Learning & Thinking Differences

Understood.org provides well researched articles about many different types of learning and thinking differences.

Autism Speaks

Autism Speaks is dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the life span, for the needs of individuals with autism and families.

The Attachment & Trauma Network

At the Attachment & Trauma Network, it is our mission to promote healing of children impacted by trauma through supporting their families, schools, and communities.

Free Parent Support Groups from CHC

Online Workshop - Parenting During Uncertain Times

Surrogate Parents

Special Children Need Special Advocates

The San Francisco Unified School District is actively recruiting volunteers to make a difference in the education of special needs children.

You can help!

Download this application and return it to:

SFUSD Special Education Services

3045 Santiago Street

San Francisco, CA. 94116