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Offers special education services serving all 13 school districts located in Kankakee County. Programs include alternative day program, communications program, transition program, audiology, autism consultant services, behavior intervention, occupational therapy, vision itinerant services, orientation and mobility services.

Provides educational advocacy, resources, training and on-on-one guidance for families of students with disabilities and the professionals who serve them.

FAMILY TO FAMILY program is a statewide network of Family Navigators who provide assistance to families of children with special needs (developmental, behavioral, emotional, and/or physical).

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Parenting Skills Classes
Special Education
Education Advocacy Groups
Disability Related Parenting Programs
Parenting Helplines
Parent Rights Classes
Disability Rights Groups
Educational programs, services, and leadership for public and non-public schools in six Eastern Iowa counties. Services and resources from the Mississippi Bend AEA are available to local schools without charge, except some non-mandated services.
Provides support and links for gifted education in area schools.

Preschool and Head Start program.

Service coordination and home visitation program.

Developmental testing, speech and language pathologist, occupational and physical therapists, and vision and hearing consultants.

Parent support groups.

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Parent Support Groups
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Childhood Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Special Education

Offers a state-wide program for students with disabilities at each school in Champaign County. Services include employers, teachers, parents, and vocational coordinators work as a team to help students become productive members of society. Students receive training in employability skills that increases job retention.

Works with member districts and special education cooperatives to provide specialized services for children with special needs. School districts supply teachers, classrooms, and core educational resources, while NIA offers additional support and related services. This partnership aims to create an inclusive learning environment tailored to each student's needs.

Providing behavior support for students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or visually impaired. Offers free onsite visits for schools and homes, free training for school and parent groups, free library with return postage, and a 24-hour helpline.

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Special Education
Health/Disability Related Support Groups

Offers to help local districts provide a meaningful, free, appropriate education for students who have special needs.


Provides a wide variety of services to member schools, including professional development opportunities, digital learning and internet services, and student supports for individuals with special needs.

The Early Development Network service coordination is a free service for families and children ages birth to three who have developmental delays, difficulties with speech and language, health issues, fine and gross motor difficulties, behavior issues, need to access community resources, and other concerns.

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Early Childhood Education
Special Education
School Districts
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Elementary and secondary education and special education services.

Provides an educational program for children and youth ages 12-21 with intellectual disabilities. The program stresses self-help skills, communication skills, socialization skills, functional academics, and vocational skills. Referrals for school enrollment come from the student's special education program. Ruby Van Meter also has a Related Arts program that provides education in the areas of Physical Education, Music, Work Experience, Home Living Skills and Swimming.
State-supported school for the education of deaf and hard of hearing children in Illinois.

Comprehensive educational programming including 0-3 years, preschool, elementary, junior high, and high school levels. College preparatory and vocational/technology programs are emphasized in the upper grades. Residential facilities are available for students living 25 or more miles from ISD. Technical assistance and training statewide for students ages 0-21.

Provides additional class instruction beyond the regular school year. Duration of the program is 6 weeks and housed in a resident district. Instructional and related services are provided as outline by the child's IEP team.

Provides staff who will help provide information, training and/or assistance to youth with significant disabilities, post high school, and individuals with disabilities living in nursing facilities with attention to deflection of people with significant disabilities at risk of entering institutions, so they may remain living in the community.

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Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Special Education
Personal Care
Children's Services are provided to people under the age of 21. Supports may include residential services, supported/intermittent, host home, day services, transitional services, special education or early intervention.

Children's Extensive Services focus on supporting families by providing respite care and community connector services to children living within their family home.

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Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Group Homes for Children and Youth With Disabilities
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Children's In Home Respite Care
Special Education
Services designed to achieve a better balance of educational opportunities for students regardless of the population, financial differences, or geographic limitations of school districts. Services include: special education services, administrative services, teaching & learning services, technology services, and more.

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Early Childhood Education
Special Education
Alternative education for grades 9-12.

Provides education support to children that display significant delays in motor development, speech/language development, cognitive development, and/or social emotional development. Services are provided in a classroom environment and include literacy, math, science, social studies, arts, and technology while supporting social/emotional development.

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Special Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Early Childhood Education
The School District Office provides the administration of the public school services for all students in the school district. Services include: Child-find services which assess pre-school children to identify any developmental concerns as well as the child's readiness for kindergarten, Early intervention services for pre-school children (beginning at 3 years old) with identified developmental delays providing special preschool services, therapies, or other needed supports for the child, Creating with the parents an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for children with special education needs and ensuring that the services required by the plan are provided for the student, and Student counseling services, including counseling and guidance for all students in the district in the areas of personal, social academic, and career concerns. The school district also provides a Homeless Liaison, who coordinates the necessary services and support for any student in the district who is homeless (this includes providing transportation to and from school as well as other support that may be needed by the student).

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School Districts
Homeless School Transition Programs
Early Identification Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Student Counseling Services
The Early ACCESS program for children birth to age 3 provides evaluations to identify children with special needs. Children ages birth to 3 years old with special needs are connected to early intervention services. In addition, Early Childhood Special Education services are available for children ages 3 to 5 who are identified as needing special education services.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Identification Programs
Preschool and special needs education for children age 3-4 years and for children 5 years old, if their birthday falls after July 31st. After school program for children, K-2nd grade.

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Special Education
Early Childhood Education
Extended Child Care

Provides education assistance to area schools in areas of early intervention, special education, career awareness, math and science coalition, computer instruction/training, curriculum development, and nursing services.

Early Intervention Program serves infants and toddlers (birth-3 years) with disabilities. Services include screening, testing, referral, services, coordination of services, and implementation of Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP).

Offers autism support and training for parents, caregivers, teachers, therapists, grandparents, or anyone that is affected by autism.

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Disease/Disability Information
Special Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Works with children with moderate to severe cognitive impairments by engaging them in on-going community activities to generalize classroom skills in real world situation.

Students with hearing impairments are most often served in their local school districts by a staff of deaf educators and educational interpreters. The deaf educators and interpreters work as part of the local school team with other special educators and classroom teachers.