Online Publications & Resources

Employment Resources and Planning: A Rhode Island Guide For Students with Disabilities

This guide is to help those who receive special education services (have an IEP) and are in grades 9-12 guide plan for employment and a career after high school.

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EmployRI

EmployRI is the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training's online job-matching service.

EMPLOYRI - Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT)

EmployRI is the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training's online job-matching service. Visit the site to find the DLT Career Center in your area.

Engaging Cooperation through Choice and Preference

This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter provides a set of tips, organized into a planning guide, to help a person succeed at tasks they don't want to do.

Entering a Screening Tool (No Signature)

Welligent electronic record resource.

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Entering a Session Note

Welligent electronic record resource.

• PDF 1.18 MB

Essential Tools: Community Resource Mapping

This handbook provides step-by-step instructions on understanding, planning and coordinating community resources that support the transition of youth with disabilities into adult life.

Evaluation Plan

Evaluation worksheet for procedures for SSIP.

• PDF English 148.69 KB

Experiences Build Brain Architecture

This video is from Three Core Concepts in Early Development, a three-part video series from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

FERPA Practice and Redisclosures

This document provides information on the laws governing confidentiality practices for Early Intervention.

• PDF English 140.41 KB

Find, Choose and Keep Great DSPs

This publication is a toolkit for people with disabilities looking for quality, caring and committed direct support professionals.

Finding Common Ground: Working Together to Resolve Behavioral

This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter discusses how to maximize collaboration to create behavior support plans that incorporate multiple perspectives and can be adapted across environments.

Fostering Self-Determination among Children with Disabilities -Ideas from Parents for Parents

This guide from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a menu of ideas developed by parents for parents to promote self-determination for children with disabilities. This publication also is available for loan from the Resource Library at the Sherlock Center.

Free Dental Clinics in Rhode Island

This site allows users to find clinics in their city or town that provide free, low-cost or slicing-scale dental services.

Friends: Connecting People with Disabilities and Community Members: A Manual for Families

Angela Novak Amado, Ph.D., wrote this manual to help people with disabilities increase community membership and belonging, and promote relationships with community members.

Got Transition®

Got Transition®, the national resource center on health care transition (HCT) aims to help youth and young adults move from pediatric to adult health care.

Governor's Workforce Board

The Governor’s Workforce Board is Rhode Island’s primary policy-making body on workforce development matters. It helps Rhode Islanders find a job and build a career, while helping employers meet their demand for talent.

Guidance for Testing

Welligent electronic record resource.

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Guidance: Intake Processes an IFSP Review

This document provides guidance to EI providers for streamlining intake process.

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Guiding Questions for Caregivers and Teachers

Use this form to gather information from multiple sources on the child's functioning. Information is arranged by the 3 child outcome areas.

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