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Loudoun’s Parent Resource Center
By Richard | August 30, 2007
School System’s Center Helps Parents of Children With Special Needs
Michael Alison Chandler | Washington
Cathryn Rice was overwhelmed when her child’s autism was diagnosed four years ago. She didn’t know much about autism, and she knew even less about how to navigate the special education process.
“I was hoping someone could give me a direction,” she said.
She contacted the Loudoun school system’s Parent Resource Center. There, she found some good listeners, a library full of books about disabilities, and dozens of workshops, some of them geared toward parents of children with autism.
The center, housed in the Douglass Support Facility in Leesburg, received more than 5,300 calls or visits from parents last year. It offered 48 workshops to about 1,500 participants and lent more than 400 videos or books to help parents or other family members learn to live with and help educate a child who has a disability. MORE
Topics: Education |