Thanks to Attorney Martin Pierce (Martin Pierce Law) and Financial Planner Jeffery Babb (Battleground Financial Advisors) for spending a couple of hours with our families last night sharing the details of a Special Needs or Supplemental Needs Trusts, Guardianship, Conservatorship, and other estate planning topics. Both men have more than 20 years experience in their fields and…
New lip reading class offered for the first time for the community to attend at Chattanooga State Community College. David M. Harrison, founder and Director of the Lip Reading Academy will be offering Lip Reading to non-students at Chattanooga State Community College beginning Monday, February 16, 2015. The class is designed to help the hearing…
CONGRATULATIONS to LifeLine’s intern, Paul Jefferson Crouch, who has been officially accepted into Moody Bible Institute for college! PJ plans to seek a degree in Ministry Leadership so he can follow the path God has set before him in Disability Ministry. He will be working online in their distance program. We are SO excited to…
CONGRATULATIONS to former LifeLine intern Kelly Sullivan! Kelly has completed her undergraduate work and has been accepted into Southern University’s School of Social Work Master’s Program. Kelly served with us for about nine months in 2011. Kelly was always ready to pitch in and help wherever she was needed. We are excited to see what…
Update from TN Department of Education with OSEP Memo Clarification As LEAs begin implementation of Tennessee’s RTI² Framework, the department would like to remind districts of the procedures required when a parent requests an evaluation. As referenced in this memorandum issued through the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), a Response to Intervention (RTI) process…
This year STEP, Inc. celebrates 25 years of services to families in Tennessee affected by special needs. STEP is the Parent Training & Information Center for the state of Tennessee. They are federally funded to provide parent training on special education law and to provide support and information to families. Congratulations for faithful service and…
Together – Katie, Kathryn, Sara, and I want to see the walls separating the special needs community from the rest of the world fall down. We want to see bridges built and friendships forged. We want to see churches and communities step up their game to rally around the parents of special-needs children. Over the course of…
“In 2010, Georgia adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics and incorporated them into the existing Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). Georgia’s new state-mandated set of standards is called the College and Career Ready Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS).
Welcome to LifeLineFamilies.org! For more than two years, LifeLine staff and board have planned LifeLine’s new website, considering ways to expand LifeLine’s online community.
Project DOCC was approved to start at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger! If you feel that you have some experience raising a child with special health care needs, are willing to share your journey to benefit others, and would be interested in being an advocate in this way, please contact me.
