Alternate Requirements for High School Diploma 

A new pathway to earning a diploma gives students a new pathway to higher education, higher-income careers, greater independence, and a higher quality of life. 

New Pathways to a Diploma for Students with Cognitive Disabilities

Campus Accessibility Tour Checklist for Parents

Learn from an orientation and mobility therapist what to look for and questions to ask when touring a new classroom or school to make sure your child will have access to everything they need (and more).

Campus Orientation Checklist

Checklist and Printables for Back to School

It’s that time of year again! As we get ready to send our kids back to school, we’re thinking about all the things they might need to be successful this year. To help their transition be as smooth as possible, we’ve put together this back-to-school toolkit with printable templates, checklists, resources, and more!

Back-to-School Toolkit: What You Need for Day 1

Adaptive Back-to-School Supplies Shopping List

When it comes to providing accommodations and adaptive tools to help students access their classroom and curriculum, the possibilities are seemingly endless. We surveyed several occupational therapists we know and the parent-staff members of Undivided to put together this best-of list.

Our Best-Of List of Adaptive Tools and Supplies

Legal Protections for Students with Disabilities Who Get Suspended

The law has certain protections for students who face discipline due to behaviors that result from their disabilities. Learn about their rights and what you as a parent need to know about communicating with the school.

How Are Students with Disabilities Protected from Discriminatory Discipline?

Applying to Regional Center and Understanding Eligibility Assessments

Learn how to apply to Regional Center step by step, and get tips on what to expect and how to prepare for the Regional Center assessment for eligibility and services.

What to Expect from Regional Center’s Intake and Assessment Process

Budgeting Tips for Parents Raising Kids with Disabilities

Learn how to create a financial plan and how to avoid those surprises that can throw off your financial plan. An estate lawyer and mom raising a kid with disabilities offers her advice for budgeting for both short-term and long-term goals.

Budgeting Basics to Keep Your Family Afloat

Using Medi-Cal as Additional Health Care Coverage

Families who already have health insurance coverage for their child can still benefit from Medi-Cal (California’s Medicaid program), which may be used as secondary insurance to pay for certain expenses that primary health insurance doesn’t cover.

How to Use Medi-Cal as Secondary Insurance

IEP Meeting Tips for Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary

Heading into your first IEP meeting? Check out our guide about how to prepare and what to expect to set your child up for a successful school year.

Preparing for Your First IEP: Preschool and Elementary

Book Recommendations for Children's Disability Awareness

Check out this list of kids' book recommendations that an Undivided parent put together, grouped by age, to teach about disability acceptance and advocacy.

What are some good books to teach kids about disability?

Tips for naming a guardian for kids with disabilities

Involve the future potential guardian in your child’s care now, if possible. You don’t want the first time that your selected guardian steps in and handles complex medical care to be in the middle of an emergency.

How do I choose a guardian for my child in my estate plan?

What to know about pooled trusts

A pooled trust is a special needs trust that is operated by a company. The company serves in the role of trustee and carries out the terms of the trust. 

What is a pooled special needs trust?

Special Education Services and Individualized Education Programs

Learn about special education services, everything you need to know about IEPs, and how to advocate for the services and supports your child needs.

Education and IEPs

Insurance Options for Parents of Kids with Disabilities

Whether you’re using private insurance or public benefits like Medi-Cal or a combination of the two, get tips on how to fund the supports and services your child needs.

Insurance

What to Do When Your Child Has Received a New Diagnosis

Has your child received a new diagnosis? Are you concerned about a developmental delay? Check out these resources to help you navigate medical services, funding, and more.

New Diagnosis

Public Benefits - Government Programs for Children with Disabilities

Depending on your income, your child’s age and diagnosis, and other factors, there are a variety of government programs available to you.

Public Benefits

Helping Kids With Disabilities Manage Anxiety, Stress, & Mental Health

Learn how to help your child manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges with these resources from therapists and other experts.

Mental Health In Children with Disabilities

Financially Supporting Your Child With Disabilities into Adulthood

Check out our resources to help plan your child's transition into adulthood and set them up for success.

Future and Financial Planning

Family Life - Advice for Parenting Children with Disabilities

Parenting a child with disabilities comes with unique joys and challenges. Learn how to meet your family's diverse needs and how to talk about disability together.

Family Life

Self-Care for Parents Raising Children With Disabilities

Raising a child with disabilities can place a lot of demands on parents. Check in with your own mental and physical health needs through these resources.

Self-Care for Parents

Estate Planning Tips for Families Raising Kids with Disabilities

Estate planning means making vital decisions about our children’s care, our assets, and our own medical care — and it requires writing those decisions down in legal documents. The process can seem overwhelming, which is why we brought in some help!

3 Tips for Parents Diving into Estate Planning

IEP Prep Tips and Advice for Parents

Being an advocate for your child can make a world of difference when it comes to the services and supports written into their IEP.  Hear how one parent and an Undivided Navigator came together to make sure a kindergartener had her needs met.

3 Tips for Advocating for Your Child in an IEP Meeting

End of School Year To-Do List for Parents of Kids with Disabilities

Learn what parents should be trying to wrap up before the end of the school year, like plans for ESY, transitions for the next year, learning loss, and other IEP meeting prep.

What Do Parents Need to Do Before the End of the School Year?

Basics of Estate Planning for Young Families & Families with Dependent Children

Does the thought of estate planning give you heart palpitations? You’re not alone. Former estate attorney and current Assistant Attorney General Brianna Davidson Jarrett gently shows us why estate planning doesn’t need to feel impossible to tackle, and why we absolutely have to do it. 

Estate Planning — We Dread It, But We Gotta Do It, with Brianna Davidson Jarrett

Advocating for Inclusion with Supports in Kindergarten

Undivided Parent and Navigator duo Isabelle Smith and Kelly Hatfield talk about how they worked together to advocate for inclusion with supports, language immersion, and retention. Isabelle shares how her advocacy affected her daughter’s kindergarten experience.

Unite and Conquer: Our Lessons Learned From the Kindergarten IEP

Addressing concerns as the school year ends

Special education advocate Dr. Sarah Pelangka helps us tie up any loose ends and concerns we may have in our kids’ education as the school year comes to a close.


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