This brochure was developed in partnership with the Massachusetts Consortium for Children with Special Health Care Needs, with significant input from a consumer advisory group, which comprised parents of children with special needs who represent diverse and underserved populations. Their collective experience determined the brochure’s key message ("Talk to other parents!"), its wording and format.

Download this brochure in English , Chinese , Haitian-Creole , Portuguese or Spanish .

Creating a Similar Brochure for Your Community: To facilitate the replication of Is Your Child Different?, we offer this summary of what our consumer advisors had to say on key messages, layout and design, dissemination strategies and more.

Bright Futures for Families–provide families with family-friendly child health and development information and materials based on the Bright Futures Guidelines used by health professionals across the country.

http://www.brightfuturesforfamilies.org/about_us.shtml

Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)–Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources Services Administration website to help you find a clinic that will give you medical care, even if you have no medical insurance or money.

http://ask.hrsa.gov/pc/

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After a primary care provider completes a physical exam, he or she might refer the patient for some follow-up evaluations; for example, hearing test, vision test, etc. This handout explains briefly some of the possible referrals.  Page two of this posting provides referral terms in English ; page three offers the terms in Spanish .

Here are the referral sheets as MS Word documents:English | Spanish

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Letter to the School Department requesting a school evaluation for a child.  In English and Spanish

Download MS Word versions of these letters: IEP Request Letter–English | IEP Request Letter–Spanish

This posting has multiple pages: 1 2 3