FRCD Publications
Training for Your Organization (Speaker Request form)
The Family Resource Center on Disabilities provides information and training on the special education rights of children with disabilities, at community locations throughout the Chicago Metropolitan area. To make a request for a speaker, complete our Speaker Request form.
Training Manuals
- How to Organize an Effective Parent⁄Advocacy Group and Move Bureaucracies
- A 100 page handbook that gives step-by-step directions on how to organize a parent group from scratch and actively involve members to 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)
Pamphlets
(available in English and Spanish)
- Does Your Child Have Special Education Needs? (¿Necesita su hijo educación especial?)
- 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 at 5 for $1. Send a self-addressed envelope with 78 cents postage when requesting single pamphlets and resource lists. We cannot currently respond to email requests.
Resource Lists & Other Documents
Parent Coalitions and Information Groups (pdf)
Who's Who in Special Education (pdf)
Respite Care Service Providers (pdf) (doc)
Highlights of Current vs. Proposed Illinois State Special Education Rules (pdf)
Pamphlets and resource lists are free in single copies, or available at 5 for $1. Send a self-addressed envelope with 78 cents postage when requesting single pamphlets and resource lists. We cannot currently respond to email requests.
Newsletter Archive
November/December, 2008: (pdf)
September/October, 2008: (pdf)
August/September, 2008: (pdf)
July/August, 2008: (pdf)
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January/February, 2008: (pdf)
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March/April, 2007: (pdf)