The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center www.nectac.org/topics/transition/transition.asp
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center supports the implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Our mission is to strengthen service systems to ensure that children with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive and benefit from high quality, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services. This site provides a variety of informational resources for families, teachers and administrators working with the issue of transition into and out of preschool special education programs.
Florida's Transition Project for Infants, Young Children and Their Families http://www.floridatransitionproject.ucf.edu/
Florida's Transition Project for Infants, Young Children and Their Families assists local communities in establishing trained teams to develop a seamless system of transition among agencies providing services to young children with disabilities, birth to six years of age, and their families. The team identifies issues and barriers to transition and creates an action plan. The plan outlines how the team will resolve the issues and build on community strengths in defining the community's transition system. The team also sets timelines and implements the plan accordingly.
The National Early Childhood Transition Center http://www.ihdi.uky.edu/NECTC
The National Early Childhood Transition Center's (NECTC) mission is to examine factors that promote successful transitions between infant/toddler programs, preschool programs, and public school programs for young children with disabilities and their families. The primary objective of the NECTC is to investigate and validate practices and strategies that enhance the early childhood transition process and support positive school outcomes for children with disabilities. This objective will be met through four inter-related research activities.
Florida Head Start http://www.floridaheadstart.org/about.html
Head Start is made up of four program components: Head Start (or Preschool Head Start), Migrant Head Start, American Indian Head Start and Early Head Start. Head Start and its four components are comprehensive child development programs which serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.
Children's Medical Services http://www.cms-kids.com/default.htm
The Children's Medical Services (CMS) program provides children with special health care needs with a family centered, managed system of care. Children with special health care needs are those children under age 21 whose serious or chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions require extensive preventive and maintenance care beyond that required by typically healthy children.
CMS provides a comprehensive continuum of medical and supporting services to medically and financially eligible children and high-risk pregnant women. The continuum of care includes prevention and early intervention programs, primary care, medical and therapeutic specialty care and long-term care. Services are provided through an integrated statewide system that includes local, regional, and tertiary care facilities and providers.
The Children's Forum http://www.flchild.com
The Children's Forum provides leadership and advocacy for affordable quality early care and education for all children. The Children's Forum provides a broad array of services to assist policymakers, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, associations, coalitions, child care agencies, early childhood teachers, directors and administrators in furthering their goals.
The Florida Developmental Disabilities Council http://www.fddc.org/HOME/index.asp
The Florida Developmental Disabilities Council encourages and advocates opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities and their families, to enhance their quality of life within their communities.
The Council will accomplish its mission by supporting innovative initiatives that demonstrate new approaches to enhance the independence, productivity, inclusion and self-determination of individuals with developmental disabilities in all facets of community life.
State of Florida Agency of Persons with Disabilities http://www.apd.myflorida.com/about/
The primary mission of the State of Florida Agency of Persons with Disabilities (APD) is to support persons with developmental disabilities in living, learning, and working, in all aspects of community life. The APD works in partnership with local communities and private providers to assist people who have developmental disabilities and their families. APD also provides assistance in identifying the needs of people with developmental disabilities for supports and services.
FLDOE Clearinghouse: www.myfloridaeducation.com/commhome/clerhome.htm
The Clearinghouse operates a resource center that provides parents, educators, and other Floridians with access to materials about exceptional student education, student services, juvenile justice education, early intervention, parent and professional partnerships, and many other topics. This resource center contains more than 6,000 books, videotapes, multimedia kits, assessment tools, staff development materials, and other materials that Floridians may borrow on short-term loan. It also contains copies of about 400 items produced by the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services, that are available free or at-cost to requesters. These include parent information materials, annual reports, statistical reports, technical assistance papers and notes, resource manuals for particular special programs, annual program plans, pre-kindergarten resources, and more.
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