NEW WEB SITE LAUNCHED TO HELP PARENTS ACCESS RESOURCES FOR INFANTS AND PRESCHOOLERS WITH DISABILITIES

The U.S. Department of Education today announced a new Web site to showcase the government's efforts to help America's infants and pre-schoolers with disabilities and their families. The site, located at www.fed-icc.org, will provide a convenient storehouse of information for parents of children with disabilities.

Some highlights: -- For parents, the Web site is user-friendly, easily navigable offering access to names and numbers of people throughout the government who can help answer questions about children and disability issues. The site also provides a means for parents to contact and communicate with FICC parent member representatives.

Project Appleseed

Hello! Project Appleseed is proud to present to you a valuable self-assessment tool. You and your schools can use the Parental Involvement Report Card (www.projectappleseed.org) to rate your contributions to your child's educational success!

We encourage you to take a few minutes to review and complete the Parental Involvement Report Card. It is intended to be distributed in your school and/or to help you assess your own involvement in your child's education.

Thanks,
Rick Thompson
Project Appleseed
The National Campaign for Public School Improvement
e-mail: appleseed@k12mail.com
web address: www.projectappleseed.org

www.bookadventure.com

• Help your child learn to read and remember what they read. This website will help you compile a list of books for your children to read. When the child is done with a book, questions can be found on the website to help test the child about what was read. There is a log in for the children, parents and teacher.

Parents Place .Com

• ParentsPlace.com is a community where parents can connect, communicate and celebrate the adventures of parenting. Through our message boards and chats you can make friends, share insights with other members and lend a supportive ear. After all, parents are the best resource for other parents. Check us out at www.parentsplace.com

www.toys4specialkids.com

• Has vision and hearing stuff

-Parent Support Groups-

Good news!SHHH now has a listserv for parents!

A listserv for parents of hard of hearing kids has been set up and is ready to go! All you need to do to subscribe is to go to the SHHH web site (http://www.shhh.org), scroll down the left side of the page until you see a box in which you enter your email address, and then click "Join List."

A listserv is an email tool that allows you, the subscriber, to exchange information, ideas, and resources with other subscribers of the list. To send an email to subscribers of the list, address it to SHHH.Parents@listbot.com. It's that easy! Please let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely - Nancy Macklin (macklin@boo.net) Mentoring Program Coordinator
P.S. Spread the word to other parents of hard of hearing children!

To read the Georgia Code regarding Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, go to here.

Georgia's Department of Human Resources has many programs for children, including the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention project and Babies Can't Wait. To review these programs, go to http://www.ph.dhr.state.ga.us/programs

To access information about Georgia's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention project, go to: Here!