Every guide, checklist, and tool Transcenders has made for families, on one shelf. Everything here is free, and every download is one click.
Not sure which of this applies to your family?
That is the normal starting point, and it is exactly what the Family Navigator is for. Answer a few questions about your child and where you live, and the Navigator turns this list into a map for your family: what to gather, who to call, and what to ask for first.
IEP Meeting Help
An IEP meeting decides your child’s school day, and walking in prepared changes outcomes.
Turning 18 With a Disability
Turning 18 changes the rules for SSI, health coverage, financial help, school, and legal decision-making.
Benefits You Didn’t Know Existed
Real programs, running right now, that most families learn about years late or not at all.
Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts
Special needs trusts and ABLE accounts compared in plain language, with the questions to ask before you choose.
Veterans’ Families: Chapter 35 and More
A disabled child of a veteran earns VA Chapter 35 education benefits, but the benefits will not pay for the college program their child actually attends.
College Accommodations and AI
Get AI named, in writing, as an accommodation in IEPs, Section 504 plans, and college accommodation plans.
Accused of AI Cheating? Start Here: A Kit for Students and Families
Free kit for families facing an AI-use accusation: first steps, an evidence checklist, a response letter template, detector facts, and sample accommodation request language.
Ask for a Bigger Cost of Attendance (AB 2251)
How to ask your college to raise its official cost estimate when your real costs are higher, including disability costs the law names directly.
Divorced With a Special Needs Child?
What happens to support, benefits, and custody when your child has a disability, and what to settle before you sign anything.
Start Your Map: The Family Navigator
Every family of a disabled child has a list of things they learned too late.
Things Nobody Told You, live.
The webinar series is coming: live sessions with Tera Lisicky, M.Ed., each one ending with your questions. First up: Turning 18 With a Disability, the master checklist walkthrough. Then SSI at 18 and the DAC benefit. Then From Helpless Child to Chapter 35. Then AI as a College Accommodation. Dates are being scheduled now, and this list hears them first.
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