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Empowering Families for Education & Health Success | PPMD Maryland

Learn how PPMD empowers families of children with disabilities in education & health. Find resources, training, and advocacy. Understand your rights and responsibilities. Join us today!

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Empowering Families for Education & Health Success | PPMD Maryland

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  1. PPMD’s Mission Statement Our mission is to empower families as advocates and partners in improving education and health outcomes for their children with disabilities and special health care needs.

  2. Who is PPMD? • Maryland’s Special Education & • Health Information Center • Established in 1990 • Governed by Parents • Our team is made up of a majority of • parents of children with disabilities • and special healthcare needs

  3. PPMD Services • One on one assistance to families • Resource sharing • Training • Parent Partners • Military Outreach • Families as Faculty

  4. PPMD helps families • Better understand their children’s disabilities, education, and health care needs; • Communicate more effectively with schools, doctors, related professionals, and agencies; • Understand their rights & responsibilities under special education law and regulations.

  5. Setting the Stage

  6. Brief Timeline • 1975 – The Education for All Handicapped Children Act • 1986 - The Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments • 1990 - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

  7. Brief Timeline • I997 - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments • 2004 - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act • 2018 - ???????

  8. Maryland’s Special Education • COMAR – Code of Maryland Regulations

  9. Endrew F. • "ambitious goals" • “high expectations” • child's "potential"

  10. “You are her mom you know her best”

  11. Vision

  12. Tips and Strategies • “Why?” Help me understand? • “Don’t take no for an answer” • “Show me where it is written”

  13. Why? • Help me understand?

  14. “Don’t take no for an answer”

  15. “Can you show me where it is written”

  16. Document! • Document! • Document!

  17. MSDE Technical Assistance Bulletins

  18. So where do we go from here? • Individual • Local • Regional • State • National

  19. Thank you!

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