Parent Liaison for Students with Disabilities
The Parent Liaison, through the Office of Exceptional Children, assists parents, teachers and administrators working with students with learning and behavioral challenges.
What Kinds of Support Does the Parent Liaison Offer?
The Parent Liaison for Students with Disabilities:
- Serves as a liaison between the school and parents.
- Meets with parents to determine what their child’s needs are and how to present those to the team.
- Attends IEP and 504 Plan meetings and coaches parents to ask questions and make requests which will help their child succeed.
- Helps parents be informed as to what is happening at school and the progress their child is making.
- Consults with school team members and shares the parents’ perspective on their child.
- Plans and implements parent workshops so parents are better informed about topics such as behavior management, parent rights and responsibilities, and specific strategies to help their children learn and prepare for life after high school.
- Is a parent voice in the school district on committees.
- Participates on area Boards of organizations that help parents.
How Can I Learn More?
- SC Parents Guide to Special Education
- Education Oversight Committee Website and Family-Friendly Standards: The Educational Oversight Committee has prepared helpful guides for parents. If you click on family friendly standards you will be able to click the grade your child is in and then you will see what your child will be learning and their will be many activities, books and web sites that will help you expose your child to the material they are studying in class in a variety of ways.
- "Exceptional Children Extra: Parent Page" Newsletters: This newsletter is published by the CCSD Parent Liaison in order to share the latest news. Each issue also focuses on a topic related to parenting and student learning.
- May 2010: Literacy
- March & April 2010: Helping Your Child with Homework
- December 2009: Activities for School Breaks
- May 2009: Preparing for Summer and the Next School Year
- April 2009: Mental Illness and Improving Mental Health
- March 2009:Disability Awareness & Planning for an IEP Meeting
- February 2009: Transition Planning
- January 2009: ADHD
- December 2008: The Art of Persuasion
Contact Us!
The CCSD Parent Liaison for Students with Disabilities, Kay Ciganovic, MSN in the
Office of Exceptional Children can be reached by email or by calling (843) 937-6483.
