Mill Valley School District

Agencies & Organizations 

• http://www.matrixparents.org/
• http://www.specialed.org/
• http://www.marinselpa.org/
• http://www.marinschools.org
• http://schoolsrule.org/
• http://www.ggrc.org/

Online Support Communities 

• Dedication to Special Education uses Discourse for its online community. To join, please send an email to info@specialed.org.
• https://www.matrixparents.org/connect/support-groups/online-support-groups/

Support Group Meetings

• https://specialed.org/for-parents/connections
• http://www.matrixparents.org/2-services/referrals.php

Greater Bay Area 

• http://www.supportforfamilies.org/

Facebook

• https://www.facebook.com/MatrixParentNetwork
• https://www.facebook.com/DedicationToSpecialEd
• https://www.facebook.com/schoolsrulemarin
• https://www.facebook.com/goldengateregionalcenter

Anxiety, Crisis & Mental Health Resources

• Crisis Text Line - text HELLO to 741741
• 211.org - connect with local mental health resources.  Text zip code to 898211
• Adolescent Self Injury Foundation - http://adolescentselfinjuryfoundation.com/
• Anxiety and Depression Association of America - http://www.adaa.org/
• Childmind - info regarding mental health in children.  Advocates for parents.  https://childmind.org/
• Suicide.org - support and education
• Society for the prevention of Teen suicide - http://www.sptsusa.org/
• Teen Mental Health http://teenmentalhealth.org/
• Teach Everyone About Mental Health (TEAM) TEAM.

Books about Disabilities for Kids and Parents
Elementary Book List
Copies are in each school library

• A Boy and A Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz 
• Mrs Gorski, I think I have the Wiggle Fidgets by Barbara Esham 
• Why Does Izzy Cover Her Ears?  by Jennifer Veenendall 
• Keep Your Ear on the Ball by Genevieve Petrillo 
• All Dogs have ADHD by Kathy Hoopermann
• All Cats have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopermann.
• It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr 
• I’m Not Scared by Todd Parr
• Armond Goes To A Party by Nancy Carlson 
• Some Kids Have Autism by Martha E. H. Rustad
• Some Kids Are Blind by Lola M Schaefer
• Some Kids Use Wheelchairs by Lola M. Schaefer
• Some Kids Are Deaf by Lola M. Schaefer
• If You’re So Smart, How Come You Can’t Spell Mississippi? by Barbara Esham 

• Fighting for Yes by Judith Heumann

• Say Hello by Jack and Michael Foreman

• Get a Grip Vivy Cohen by Sarah Kapit

• A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott

• Listen - How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker

• Awesomely Emma by Amy Webb 

• Moonflower by Kacen Callender

• In the Blue by Erin Hourigan

• A Sky Blue Bench by Bahram Rahman

• Chance to Fly by Stacy Davidowitz

• What Happened to You by James Catchpole 

• We Move Together by Eduardo Trejos and Kelly Fritsch 

Mill Valley Middle School Book List

Rain, Reign by Ann Martin - 5-10 more copies - the book has gone over so well we have added more copies

Synopsis:  Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Rain was a lost dog Rose's father brought home. Rose and Rain are practically inseparable. And they are often home alone, as Rose's father spends most evenings at a bar, and doesn't have much patience for his special-needs daughter.

Synopsis: Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions.  But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate's birthday celebration, It's up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin's frequent tormenter, didn't bring the gun to school.

Synopsis:  This contemporary novel does for synesthesia what Terry Hesser's Kissing Doorknobs (1998) does for obsessive-compulsive disorder: the lively personal story demystifies a fascinating condition. For 13-year-old Mia Winchell, the world has always been filled with a wonderful, if sometimes dizzying, sensory onslaught--numbers, letters, words, and sounds all cause her to see a distinct array of colors. She keeps her unusual condition a secret until eighth grade, but then her color visions make math and Spanish impossibly confusing, and she must go to her parents and a doctor for help.