Parent Assistance

FIND of Louisville provides one-on-one assistance by phone or in person. Our goal in providing Parent Assistance is to offer support and information to parents regarding special education and disabilities enabling them to be effective members of their child's Individualized Education Program team. If you have any questions or if you wish to obtain Parent Assistance please call us or contact us by email.

We offer training to parents including advocacy and leadership skills to help them become better care-givers for children with a single disability or multiple disabilities including:

• Asperger syndrome
• attention deficit disorder (ADD)
• attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)
• autism
• blindness or low vision
• brain injury
• cerebral palsy
• diabetes
• Down syndrome
• epilepsy
• Fragile X syndrome
• intellectual disabilities
• learning disabilities
• mental illness
• mental retardation
• multiple sclerosis
• muscular dystrophy
• Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
• rare disorders
• special needs
• spina bifida
• spinal cord injury
• Tourette syndrome

Areas of leadership training include

• vocational rehabilitation
• special education and special education law
• independent living
• Individualized Education Programs (IEP), and
• Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSP)

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