Preparing the School for Your Child with Special Needs

Notes for the Teacher

Here's your head start for information to send to teachers about your child's special needs. Follow the links below to find information regarding specific disabilities, then go to How to Assemble a Teacher Information Packet for step-by-step instructions on using these tips and handouts to help your child's teacher help your child, and see how one reader used them in a letter to her child's teacher.

Prepare the School for Your Child with ...

Albinism

Angelman Syndrome

Anxiety Disorder

Asperger Syndrome

Asthma

Attachment Disorder

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Autism

Bipolar Disorder

Cancer

Central Auditory Processing Disorder

Celiac Disease

Cerebral Palsy

Cleft Lip and Palate

Congenital Heart Defects

Cystic Fibrosis

Dandy-Walker Syndrome

Down Syndrome

Dwarfism

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Fragile X Syndrome

Hemophilia

Juvenile Diabetes

Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

Kidney Disease

Learning Disabilities

Leukemia

Mental Retardation

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Neurofibromatosis

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

Nystagmus

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Peanut Allergy

Phenylketonuria

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Rett Syndrome

Seizure Disorders

Selective Mutism

Sensory Integration Dysfunction

Spina Bifida

Tourette Syndrome