The Chatfield Advocacy Group

Fantastic resource for parents, teachers, and families!

In honor of Dyslexia Awareness Month, I’ve created this virtual classroom for your students or your own children to learn about dyslexia. It’s created in Google Slides with clickable links to videos or books read aloud. I hope they enjoy it!
Here’s a video I made showing how to use it:
📍 https://drive.google.com/file/d/19SOcdy1eMt8kisNOEWXNp2H93l5sEXLu/view
Here’s the link to download:
📍https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oF9Rc7aj_S7hu_QDr6Hn7eFyw4qlSUG2R0BxoQVkbTA/copy?usp=sharing

Beautiful story of a local teacher, her students, and seeing opportunities where others see only difficulty!

The music teacher who just won a Grammy says it belongs to her students Virginia music teacher Annie Ray started an orchestra for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She just won a Grammy for music education, and a $10,000 grant for her school.

FREE ASL l and ll online courses!

We are on Instagram now! Show our new account some love!💗

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COPAA is offering scholarships for new members. Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of our community!

Don’t miss this opportunity! FREE to non-members!

OPEN to the Public - Join our State Complaints webinar on Oct 19 at 1 p.m. ET. Registration is REQUIRED for the public under - Guests.

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State Complaint Summary Report -www.copaa.org/general/custom.asp?page=state-complaint-summary-report

This organization is well known for their resources. Download the newest version of their Family guide to Special Education. 📚

Understand your family’s rights as you navigate the special education system in Virginia.

Check out the newly revised Guide to Special Education: https://tinyurl.com/3tupvxy2

Another round of grants are available!

Qualifying Families May Now Apply for $3000 K-12 Learning Acceleration Grants
Virginia Department of Education, VDOE
https://tinyurl.com/VDOELearningAccelerationGrants

Progress reports should have arrived. Make sure you’re getting data to support those IEP goals!

Here is a great resource, explaining different types of data. The school can, and should provide.

Just a partial list.....

I'd add "because they are human and deserve to be included and I shouldn't have to tell you this"