Aggression Resources

Caregiver Resources

• Aggression Provider + Parent Resources PDF
• Questions and Answers Addressing the Needs of Children with Disabilities and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s (IDEA’s) Discipline Provisions discusses how certain school actions, such as informal removals and the use of threat assessments, may result in the denial of FAPE to children with disabilities.
• Positive, Proactive Approaches to Supporting the Needs of Children with Disabilities: A Guide for Stakeholders offers evidence-based strategies that early childhood programs, schools, and local educational agencies (LEAs) can use in place of exclusionary discipline or other harmful practices such as restraint or seclusion.
• Family Medical Leave Act: Autism, many chronic or long-term physical illnesses, and many psychiatric and developmental disabilities fall within the law’s coverage. FMLA leave also permits parents to obtain temporary reductions in work schedules.
• Center for Parent Information & Resources (CPIR): This national organization offers resources to build caregivers’ knowledge and skills in advocating for optimal educational experiences for children with complex needs. You can Find an Education Advocate by State through CPIR.
• Understood.org: This is an organization that provides guidance to people with unique learning needs, including information about disabilities, education law and policy, and caregiver perspectives.
• A Day in Our Shoes: A Day in Our Shoes is an organization led by special education advocate Lisa Lightner that shares information and resources for caregivers of children with disabilities so they can make the best decisions in developing IEPs for their children.
• Parent Education and Advocacy Training Center – Provides easy-to-understand, research-based information and training. Suzanne Bowers, (800) 869-6782
• Center for Special Education Advocacy – Maintains a list of advocates and attorneys across Virginia.
• Wrightslaw – Website about special education law and advocacy, with thousands of articles, cases and free resources.
• Voices for Virginia’s Children – Voices is a statewide, privately funded, nonpartisan awareness and advocacy organization that builds support for practical public policies to improve the lives of children. Margaret Nimmo Crowe, (804) 649-0184
• Arc of Virginia – Policy development to benefit people with intellectual disabilities in Virginia. Jamie Liban, (804) 649-8481
• Parent to Parent of Virginia – Providing best practice on supporting parents through peer-to peer matching. Dana Yarbrough

Behavior Management and Positive Parenting

• Center for Effective Parenting: Spanish & English Resources
• Parent Management Training (English, Spanish)
• Pacer Center Spanish Resources
• Zero to Three Family Resources (Spanish, English)
• CDC Essentials for Parenting (English, Spanish)
• 123 Magic: 3-step discipline for calm, effective, and happy parenting
• CDC Special Playtime – a chance to focus on your child’s good behaviors and build a strong, nurturing relationship

Parenting Videos

• FIU Center for Children and Families
• CDC: Essentials for parenting toddlers and preschoolers
• Parenting Skills
• 123 Magic Parenting YouTube
• Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing
• Positive Parenting and PRIDE Skills

Books

• The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child (2009), by Alan Kazdin. Includes a DVD of demonstration of key behavioral strategies
• No More Meltdowns: Positive Strategies for Managing and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior (2008), by Jed Baker
• Parenting the Strong-Willed Child: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds (2010), by Rex Forehand and Nicholas Long
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (2012), by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind (2012), by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
• Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic (2015), by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime (2001), by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children (2014), by Ross W. Greene PhD
• 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (2016), (available in Spanish), by Thomas Phelan, PhD