SharedCourage

Free resources

Tools for the work, free to use.

Clear, practical resources you can download, print, and bring with you. Built from lived experience, for the parts no one trained you for.

School & rights

Free guide

10 Questions to Ask at Your Next IEP Meeting

The ten questions that steer an IEP meeting toward the specifics that shape your child's year, with space to write what you hear.

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Free reference

Plain-language glossary of terms

Every acronym and term you'll meet across school, medical, therapy, and sensory care, in calm, parent-first language. Searchable.

Open the glossaryA printable version is coming.

Medical, records & benefits

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Medical & Developmental Record

One place to hold the whole picture: pregnancy and birth history, developmental milestones birth to six, medications, surgeries, behavior history, and every provider. A fillable PDF you keep and update.

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Texas guide

Getting a disability parking placard (Texas)

The VTR-214 process in five plain steps: the form, the doctor's signature, permanent vs. temporary, and where to submit. With the official links.

Texas guide

Texas Medicaid waivers, explained

What the waiver programs are, who they're for, and the one move to make today: get on the interest lists. Plus exactly who to call for each.

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The people around your child

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A Letter to My Child's Teacher

A warm, fill-in-the-blanks introduction to hand a teacher at the start of the year: your child's strengths, how they communicate, and what helps.

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Being a Great Friend

A one-page guide for kids and grown-ups on being a good friend to someone who talks, plays, or moves a little differently.

Download the PDFGreat for classmates & siblings.
Free list

Shows & books that help

A curated list of kids' shows, episodes, and picture books that gently open up disability, communication differences, and friendship, for your child and the people around them.

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Everything a New Caregiver Needs to Know

The one page you hand a babysitter, a church volunteer, or anyone caring for your child for a couple of hours: allergies and emergency contact, how your child communicates, what settles them, and what to say instead of the words that don't land well.

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My Day at Church: a visual schedule

Picture cards that walk a child through the whole morning: check in, classroom, songs, big group, lesson, snack, pick up. Nothing about the morning has to be a surprise. Includes a cut-apart set for velcro, plus a bathroom card.

Download the PDFPrint, cut & laminate.
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First Signs

Thirty ASL signs worth knowing, for anyone who spends time with a child who signs: what they need, how they feel, and the yes and no that let them answer instead of only ask. With a page to record the way your own child makes each one.

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