WEB CORNER

TEACHER PAGES

Early Intervention/Special Education

• Sensory Integration Network

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• ADA National Access for Public Schools Project
• American Sign Language Browser, Site allows you to look up thousands of ASL signs. QuickTime video clip and explanations are included with each sign.
• The ARC: Q & A on Down Syndrome
• The Animated American Sign Language Dictionary, Animations of hand signs for a dictionary of words and phrases! Great idea and wonderful use of internet capabilities. Start learning ASL on your own!
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Autism Society of Pittsburgh
• Center for Family & Community Partnerships, New Mexico site with very helpful information about assessment, curriculum, learning environments and more!
• CLAS: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services from the Early Childhood Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Education; great resources here!
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Curriculum and Its Impact on Inclusion and the Achievement of Students with Disabilities
• DB-Link, National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
• The Division for Early Childhood, Early Childhood division of the Council for Exceptional Children
• Does Early Intervention Help? ERIC Digest #455.
• Early Childhood and Disabilities, Ask ERIC InformationGuide with links to many other sites with disability info
• Early Intervention for Children Fact Sheet, Hawaiian initiative emphasizing relationship between health and education
• ERIC Digest: Integrating Children with Disabilities into Preschool
• Federal Resource Center for Special Education, provides a national perspective for establishing technical assistance activities across regions by identifying emerging issues and trends in special education, and assists in linking Regional Resource Centers with each other and with other technical assistance providers.
• Free Numbers for Health Information, Listing of 800 numbers
• IDEAPractices, Answers questions about IDEA, keeps you informed about ideas that work.
• JAN: Job Accomodation Network, Information about job accomodations and employing people with disabilities
• Meeting the Diverse Needs of Young Children
• MRI USED TO UNLOCK ATTENTION DISORDER MYSTERY, Article
• MUSIC THERAPY INFO LINK, place to gather information, help open the lines of communication and networking, and educate the public about the field of music therapy
• National Center to Improve Practice, Organization that promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities.
• National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM), Guidelines for making web pages accessible as well as accessibility information concerning other media
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• National Organization for Rare Disorders
• Outside the Box, Good example of use of the internet with children; page by teacher of ADHD children with information about what having ADHD is like from child/parent perspective
• Parents Helping Parents, Human resource directory addressing needs of children and adults with needs for special services or care
• Passages To Inclusion Creating Systems of Care for All Children, ERIC's site on inclusion in child care
• P.L. 105-17 (1997 IDEA Amendments), Links to in-depth information about the changes in IDEA
• Reading Recover
• The Resource Room, Nice site with lots of good links to other special education topics and sites; adoption information as a bonus
• Sensory Integration Network
• Science Projects for ALL Students, Probably not an EC site, but such a good idea, I couldn't resist adding it!
• SpeciaLink, Resources and research from Canada on successful inclusion
• UCLID: University Community Leaders and Individuals with Disabilities, interdisciplinary clinical, research, policy, and leadership training for health care and educational professionals caring for individuals and/or families who have neurological and related disorders