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items are free to young adults, high school or older, with disabilities and their families.
Please limit requests for free items to 10 or less per order.
Other Early Childhood Projects
Project KITE (Kids Included through Technology are Enriched) is a training curriculum for parents and teachers of young children with disabilities with a goal to promote inclusion for children with disabilities through the use of technology.
Early Childhood
PACER's Early Childhood Project is dedicated to providing parents of children with disabilities, ages birth through 5 years, the confidence, knowledge, and skills needed to help their children obtain the education, health care, and other services that are mandated by law.
Curricula
Families are Important: An Early Childhood Curriculum
This training curriculum describes the early intervention process and the family's role in developing an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). 51 slides. 2007.
$15 |
CD-Rom
| ALL-45
Books
Building a Strong Family: A Handbook for Hmong Parents - Hmong Version
Combining Hmong culture and recent research, illustrated stories about families are meant to help Hmong parents raising children in the U.S. 1997.
$8 |
10+ copies, $6 each
| LPA-29
Celebrating Family Strengths: A Handbook for Families
Suggests ways for families to recognize and appreciate their own strengths, stories, and traditions. Reinforcing concepts, it focuses on the need for good communication and recognizing responsibilities. 24 pages. 1993. (See Translations for Hmong and Spanish.)
$2.50 |
10+ copies, $2 each
| LPA-11
Choices: Opportunities for Life
The information in this booklet can help parents think about the steps involved in encouraging decision making skills in their young children with disabilities. 2009.
$8 |
10+ copies, $6.50 each
| PHP-a31
Early Childhood Transition Guidebook (download for free)
Helps parents understand the process that guides their child's transition from infant and toddler intervention services to other early childhood services at age three and includes strategies to use for a successful transition. 2010.(See translations for Somali and Spanish.)
$3.00 |
10+ copies, $2.50 each
| PHP-a40
Families are Important! An Early Childhood Guidebook for Families of Young Children
Helps families of children with disabilities or delayed development understand Minnesota's early intervention system and how to access services for their child. 2011.
$7 |
10+ copies, $5 each
| PHP-a9
High Expectations
Helps parents who have just learned their child has a disability to maintain high expectations for the child's future while challenging the low expectations of others. 2009.
$3 |
10+ copies, $2.50 each
| PHP-a34
Possibilities: A Financial Resource for Parents of Children with Disabilities (download for free)
a booklet first published in 2004 by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) and PACER, has been revamped and expanded in an online format. This guide offers tips and information on organizing financial records, managing money, dealing with debt, preparing income taxes, saving for college, preparing youth for adult employment, and more. Each section includes links to additional resources. 2011
FREE |
Online Only
| WEB-1
Thoughts About My Child
Families can organize information about a young child with disabilities: daily routine, likes and dislikes, skills, unique characteristics, birth and health history, needs, names of medical or school professionals, health/human services numbers, etc. (See Translations for Hmong and Spanish.)
$1.50 |
10+ copies, $1 each
| PHP-a15
Handouts Free to Download | $1.50 per request | 10+ copies, $.50 each
* To download the MP3 files, right click on the Download link and select "Save Target As.."
Choose where to save it and click "Save". Then, open the file in desired media player upon completion.
Let's Talk Activity Cards
Let's Talk Activity Cards
Let's Talk is an easy and fun way to interact and help your child be ready for reading. These cards will help build your child's vocabulary and speaking skills-the first steps in learning to read. No special supplies are needed, just you and your child. (See Translations for Spanish and Hmong.)
$4 |
10+ copies, $2.50 each | 100+ copies, $2 each
| PHP-a27
Let's Talk and Count! Activity Cards
Let’s Talk and Count! is an easy and fun way for parents to interact and help your child be ready for reading and counting. These cards will help build your child’s vocabulary and speaking skills, as well as increase your child’s early math skills. No special supplies are needed, just you and your child. (See Translations for Spanish and Hmong and Somali.)
$4 |
10+ copies, $2.50 each | 100+ copies, $2 each
| PHP-a41
Book and Audio
Family Strengths Series
This series of five booklets teach and encourage parents of young children (birth to age 5.) All are simply worded and beautifully illustrated with photos of children and families of various ethnic/cultural groups. 2000. (See Translations for Hmong and Spanish.)
$5 | 10+, $4.50 each | 100+, $4 each
Written in the child's voice, engaging booklets with focus on development.
I Am My Child's First Teacher | LPA-35
English, Hmong, Spanish
Hopeful and supportive, this booklet focuses on the strengths developed and the challenges faced by parents of a young child with a disability.
Lovable Me! A Guide to Your Baby | LPA-32
English, Hmong, Spanish
Lovable Me! A Guide to Your Preschooler | LPA-34
English, Hmong, Spanish
Lovable Me! A Guide to Your Toddler | LPA-33
English, Hmong, Spanish
This engaging, encouraging booklet presents ways parents help children learn through everyday activities.
My Child Has a Disability | LPA-36
English, Hmong, Spanish
Audio
FAMILY STRENGTHS Series Audio Tapes
Accompanies Family Strength Series Books. Covers the text from the book series. All five books are on a single tape. 2001. (See Translations for Spanish.)
$3 |
10+ copies, $2 each | 100+, $1 each
| LPA-38
PACER's site offers many PDF files for download, which require