Disabilities & Special Services
Providing Care for Children with Special Needs
- Provide any necessary modifications to the environment, multiple and varied formats for instruction, and individualized accommodations and supports as necessary to support the full participation of children with disabilities
- Provides individualized services and supports, to the maximum extent possible, to meet the child’s needs.
- Transition planning for children with ISFP’s and IEP’s
Resources
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Blair Family Solutions, LLC
Blair Family Solutions, LLC, works with the Blair County Head Start program as a licensed behavioral health consultant to provide behavioral health services as needed to referred children and their families in the program.
Blair Family Solutions, LLC
Blair Family Solutions is focused on providing high-quality behavioral health services to clients in Blair County and surrounding areas to enhance the needs of the community and its clients.
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Pennsylvania Head Start Association
The Pennsylvania Head Start Association (PHSA) is a non-profit membership organization. PHSA is an advocacy organization for Head Start famiies and programs.
Pennsylvania Head Start Association
The Pennsylvania Head Start Association creates ONE CLEAR, POWERFUL VOICE for children and families who are economically challenged. We embrace diversity and unify the early childhood community.
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Blair County LICC
LICC stands for Local Interagency Coordinating Council. LICC is a state-mandated organization that works together to assist families of young children with disabilities and special needs.
Blair County LICC
The LICC is actively seeking more parent members to provide a voice for families. Meetings occur every other month, (September, November, January, March, May)
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Appalachia Intermediate Unit 08
Intermediate Unit 8 was created to furnish a broad range of educational services in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset counties in west, central and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Appalachia Intermediate Unit 08
IU8 provides programs for curriculum development and the improvement of instructional materials; it also offers educational management and pupil personnel services.
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National Head Start Association
(NHSA) is a nonprofit organization committed to the belief that every child has the ability to succeed in life. NHSA is the voice for more than 1 million children, 200,000 staff and 1,600 Head Start grantees in the United States.
National Head Start Association
The NHSA Knowledge Center provides the infrastructure that generates, curates, communicates, and connects knowledge across these groups to support the future of Head Start and of Head Start children.
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Early Child Learning & Knowledge Center
The Office of Head Start (OHS) helps young children from low-income families prepare to succeed in school through local programs. that support early learning, health, and family well-being.
Early Child Learning & Knowledge Center
ECLKC promoties school readiness for children and families and provides a number of national and community based resources.
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