Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Autism, sensory processing disorder, dyslexia
Theme: IEP accountability, teacher training, federal consistency
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Intellectual Disability
Theme: required parent advisory groups in each school district, parent liasons in school districts
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: New Mexico
Disability: ADHD
Theme: teacher training, keeping parents involved after student turns 18
Language: English

Age: School-Age, Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Maine
Disability: Autism, ADHD, ODD
Theme: fully funding IDEA
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: staff shortages, funding, staff training, parent navigation support
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: educating families, child find, staff shortages, funding, state accountability
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Unspecified
Theme: FAPE, IEP team participation, transition supports
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Washington DC
Disability: multiple disabilities, EBD, anxiety
Theme: teacher training, emotional/behavioral support, IEP team participation
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Congenital heart defects, GI Dismotility, ADHD
Theme: Inclusion of service providers in transition plans
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Down Syndrome
Theme: Language in IDEA for inclusion, Funding and guidance for school districts
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Theme: Gap in transition service between EI and Kinder; Training for school personnel and parents, Resources for parents
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: Increase diversity of classes, help parents understand the law better, provide documentation so parents understand it and it isn't repetitive
Language: Spanish

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: Increase age to 26
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Not Disclosed
Location: Illinois
Disability: Deaf, Autism, Brown's Syndrome
Theme: Gap in parent/teacher relationships, communication, teacher training, understanding parental rights
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Intellectual Disability
Theme: Increase age to 26
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Multiple
Theme: Parent involvement language in IDEA, liaison support for parents, increase parent participation in IEP process, children who are nonverbal be provided with AAC device, extend age to 26
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: HFAutism
Theme: Provide access to information about special education
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Atypical HFAutism
Theme: Emotional and social wellbeing in conjunction with academics
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Autism
Theme: Manual for parents to understand the system, possibilities, services, information for new families
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Allergies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Autism
Theme: Transition planning, assistive technology, Attention Deficit Disorder "peer reviewed " to research-based practices
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety, Asthma, Severe Allergies
Theme: Define LRE per child
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Massachusetts
Disability: Dyslexia
Theme: Understanding the law, providing information in other languages
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Auditory Processing Disorder, Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder
Theme: Provide more opportunities for diverse programming
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Theme: Budget cuts in special education, learning centers for Learning Disability and young adults, more funding and more activities for special education, IEP meetings run by federal government and state board
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Depression, Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Theme: Fully fund IDEA, hire fully qualified people, serve students beyond academics
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Learning Disability
Theme: Stronger language in IDEA, shorten 60 day evaluation period, change "consider" to "using" independent evaluations to inform decisions
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism
Theme: Provide more funding for athletic services for individuals with disabilities
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Washington DC
Disability: Autism, multiple disabilities
Theme: Functional life skills training for students
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Washington DC
Disability: Learning disabilities
Theme: Late diagnosis penalties and compensatory education
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Washington DC
Disability: Stroke
Theme: Child find, parent training, FAPE
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: Autism, ADHD, Anxiety disorder, learning disabilities
Theme: Increase knowledge about resources, provide special education advocates, support equity and inclusion
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: Illinois
Disability: OCD, anxiety
Theme: Supports schools accountability, wants parents included in decision making, stricter school policy, laws need to set boundaries on the school and allocate more rights to the parents
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Female
Location: Illinois
Disability: Learning disabilities
Theme: Transition services into adult life, waitlist for funding, more school training on transition programming, better/streamlined individualized transition plans and services into adult life
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Fragile X Syndrome, Autism
Theme: Wants IDEA funding increased
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: ADHD, Anxiety, Math disability
Theme: Wants services to be provided without school resistance, wants schools to be held accountable with oversight and a financial consequence when their IDEA obligations are not met
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Learning disability, multiple disabilities
Theme: Increaasing access to educational resources about navigating the school systems, reauthorizing IDEA more frequently
Language: English

Age: Transition
Gender: Male
Location: South Carolina
Disability: Autism
Theme: Increasing access to full-time services during summer, increasing funding for special education
Language: Spanish