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At PaTTAN, our goal is to provide educators with a breadth of publications that are grounded in proven best practices and a deep research base, reflecting a commitment to school improvement. PaTTAN offers publications on a variety of topics, all focused on improving educational results for students with and without disabilities.

Whether you are just starting out in the field of education, or you want to improve upon the work you and your team are already doing, let PaTTAN support you with the expertise of our educational consultants. Pennsylvania educators, school administrators, and families can view, download, and order PaTTAN publications mailed to their school or home.

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May 7, 2025

When Parents Revoke Consent: Issues for Consideration

IDEA 2004 allows parents to revoke consent for special education services for their children. This fact sheet provides background information and implications regarding this issue.

May 1, 2025

Matching Assistive Technology (AT) Features to Low Vision Needs

For students who have low vision, various interventions have the potential to maximize the use of functional vision, which varies from student to student. Specifically, these strategies can maximize clarity, optimize the field of view, maximize color and contrast, optimize lighting, minimize glare, and enhance visual efficiency, visual comfort, and visual confidence. This booklet explains the general process for matching students with appropriate low vision interventions within a functional setting.

May 1, 2025

What School Administrators Need to Know About School Psychology and Comprehensive Service Delivery

Maximizing the impact of school psychological services benefit not only students, but also families, school staff, and the school community. Administrators with an understanding of the comprehensive skill set school psychologists bring to the role can purposefully collaborate with their school psychologist to design an impactful model of psychological service delivery for their local education agency (LEA).

The purpose of this publication is to provide an overview of the practice model for school psychologists, and highlight several impactful practices for consideration to enhance school psychological service delivery.

April 14, 2025

Preschool to School-Age Transition: Considerations for Children Who Are Blind/Visually Impaired

An important part of the school-age transition team’s discussion for children who are Blind/Visually Impaired must include the unique learning and environmental needs. Included in this publication is a list of questions and considerations for use as a preplanning tool for initial and ongoing discussions between the parents or guardians and school personnel.

April 11, 2025

CAPS: How Can Families Support Students to Graduate? Check the A-B-Cs!

This double-sided publication in English and Spanish was designed for families, including families of students with disabilities. It provides strategies to increase students' chances of graduating from high school and decrease their chances of dropping out.

April 8, 2025

BSE Credential of Competency for Special Education Instructional Paraprofessionals

The PDE, BSE has developed a Credential of Competency for special education paraeducators to help them achieve "qualified" status as required by Chapter 14. While there are other ways a paraprofessional can meet the requirements of Chapter 14, the credential is a competency-based approach. This credential addresses seven core competency areas that are modeled after those developed by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) for special education paraprofessionals.

April 8, 2025

Special Education for School-Age Children in Pennsylvania: A Guide for Families (Spanish)

This Spanish-language guide for families of children receiving special education in Pennsylvania outlines how a child's need for special education is determined, how a child's educational program is developed, the responsibilities and protections guaranteed to caregivers and children, and the resources available to families of a child with disabilities. [Also available in English].

Please note: This publication has had a title change. This was previously known as Pennsylvania Parent Guide to Special Education for School-Age Children.

April 8, 2025

Writing Effective IEP Goals

Central to the creation of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) by the IEP team, is development of measurable annual goals, which are based on a student’s current levels of academic and functional performance, and which should align to and reference the Pennsylvania standards. This publication focuses on the components of a well-written measurable annual goal.

April 1, 2025

PA's Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) System: Training Readiness Checklist

This folder provides a place to store documentation related to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and doubles as a checklist of items to be completed prior to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Training.

March 20, 2025

CAPS: Implement the A-B-Cs of Welcoming and Affirming Environments!

Are you affirming racial, cultural, and linguistic identities to foster positive outcomes for your most marginalized students? Use this double-sided checklist in English and Spanish to implement the A-B-Cs of Welcoming and Affirming Environments!

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