Identifying and Serving Students who are Multilingual Learners with Disabilities
Procedural Safeguards
Translated Procedural Safeguards
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
Assistive Technology
Maine CITE is the state's Assistive Technology program providing AT Demo, AT Loan, and AT Reuse services; AT Training webinar events; information on AT resources, providers and Maine CITE also supports an online AT inventory for educators, therapists, students and families to access more than a thousand AT devices available for demo and loan in Maine. Visit https://at4maine.org/ to learn more about the AT inventory.
Accessible Educations/ Instructional Materials (AEM/AIM)
Maine AEM Program supports Maine schools to ensure all of their educational materials, information and communications are accessible to all, and that all students with print disabilities, who need their educational materials in alternate formats, get these materials in a timely manner. Services include information/referral, training and technical assistance.
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS)
PBIS is a multi-tiered approach to supporting the social, emotional and behavioral development of students in K-12 settings.
1% and Maine's Alternate Assessment
1% and Maine's Alternative Assessments Based on Alternative Academic Achievement Standards (AA-AAAS)
Administrative Letters
Coming Soon
Special Education Surrogate Parent Program
The Special Education Surrogate Parent Program was established to provide educational surrogate parents to children with disabilities whenever the natural parents or guardian of a child with a disability cannot be identified or located, or when the child is in the custody of the state.
