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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Asthma
Autism
Deafness
Deaf-Blindness
Mental Retardation
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopedic Impairment
Serious Emotional Disturbance
Specific Learning Disability
Speech or Language Impairment
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Americans with Disability Act-ADA
Get the ADA Regulations and Technical Assistance Materials, access to the
Toll-Free ADA Information line, state and local building codes, new and proposed regulations, and ADA resources. Don't miss the "Faces" and read the Stories about the ADA.
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about effective practices for children with, or at risk for developing, serious emotional behavior problems and disorders.
Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution
Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution (CADRE) in Special Education provides technical assistance to states, jurisdictions, and others on implementation of the mediation requirements under IDEA 1997.
Children With Disabilities
The Children With Disabilities Web site offers families, service providers, and other interested individuals information about advocacy, education, employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation covering a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities.
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility that works to make media accessible to under served populations such as disabled persons, minority-language users, and people with low literacy skills.
Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
The Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has a complete list of their Technical Assistance and Dissemination Network.
DisabilityInfo.Gov
On October 16, a comprehensive federal web site designed to serve people with disabilities, birth through death, was launched at www.disabilityinfo.gov. This effort was developed as part of President Bush's New Freedom Initiative to "provide individuals with access to a single point to go online for Government information and resources related to disabilities and to the New Freedom Initiative."
ENFORCING THE ADA: Looking Back on a Decade of Progress--A Special Tenth Anniversary Status Report from the Department of Justice
Over the past decade the ADA has changed so much. It is no longer unusual to see people with disabilities dining out at restaurants, working in the office, participating in town hall meetings, shopping at the malls, watching a movie or cheering at a stadium. That's because the ADA is making the dream of access a reality. This report illustrates how the ADA has made a difference in the lives of so many—but there is still work left to do. You may find the section “Enjoying Equal Access to Child Care” especially interesting.
Indian Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center (IDSQIC)
IDSQIC assists in providing quality disabilities services to children with disablities and their families. The website includes information on IDSQIC's Resources Learning Library. The Library contains hundreds of useful disabilities resources -- including books, pamphlets, and videos that are available, on loan, to Indian Head Start and Child Care programs.
National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC)
NCAC provides a vision of how new curricula, teaching practices, and policies can be woven together to create practical approaches for improved access to the general curriculum by students with disabilities.
National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE)
The National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE) aims to advance the quality and effectiveness of technology, media, and materials for individuals with disabilities.
National Clearinghouse for Professionals in Special Education
This clearinghouse serves personnel for children with disabilities; provides information for individuals seeking employment in the education field; data on the recruitment, preparation, and retention of educators and related services personnel.
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System is the national technical assistance system working to support states, jurisdictions, and others to improve services and results for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities, and their families.
National Information Center on Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
NICHCY, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Their special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language. NIDCD also conducts and supports research and research training related to disease prevention and health promotion; addresses special biomedical and behavioral problems associated with people who have communication impairments or disorders; and supports efforts to create devices which substitute for lost and impaired sensory and communication function.
Serving Children with Disabilities in Child Care Settings
This Child Care Bulletin focuses on serving children with disabilities and program supports that are vital to inclusion, such as staff training, resource and referral, collaborations, and new links with organizational resources.
Supporting Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Child Care Programs
With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, states can pay higher reimbursement rates to childcare programs and providers serving children with special needs. This issue brief lays out the most commonly asked questions about the issue of special needs rates, primarily in the context of the Child Care and Development Fund.
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ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The core symptoms of ADHD include inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Children who are inattentive and easily distracted have difficulty focusing on a task and may become bored after only a few minutes. They often initiate a number of tasks but fail to complete them. Hyperactive children seem to be constantly in motion. They have difficulty sitting still, may wander around the room, squirm in
their seats, or repeatedly tap a pencil. Impulsive children tend to act without thinking and often seem unable to control their immediate reactions to people, events, or even their own thoughts and feelings. As a result, they may speak without thinking or dash into the street without looking for traffic.
ADHD Support
Support site for parents and caregivers with forums to discuss issues they face with their children who are diagnosed with various disorders including ADHD.
ADHD Without Ritalin!
Updated info! Treat ADHD/ADD by changing diet, eliminate med's. MD-nutritionist, shows you how, with 4-stage diet and more than 225 original, child-friendly recipes.
Home school Educator of ADHD Child Shares Teaching Tips
Tips on how to teach highly distractible (ADHD/ADD) children from a home schooling mom.
Info on ADHD at Family Education
Family Education helps make raising kids a snap for parents. Find helpful tips, expert advice, and skill-builders for kids in grades K-12.
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes
Internationally acclaimed programs for the development of language processing skills. Proven effective in the treatment of symptoms of ADHD.
School for Children with ADHD
Aspen Education Group has a number of boarding schools and programs that specialize in children with ADD, ADHD, or behavioral problems.
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ASTHMA
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that is characterized by intermittent, recurring episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, tightness of the chest and coughing. Over the past 15 years, the number of Americans afflicted with asthma has doubled to an estimated 15 million people, including an estimated 4.4 million children. Between
1980 and 1994, the percentage of Americans with asthma increased 75 percent, and the percentage of pre-school age children with asthma increased 160 percent.
Taking care of asthma is expensive and imposes financial burdens on the families of people who have it. In 1998, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) estimated that the annual costs of asthma were $11.3 billion.
Asthma Medications for Kids (American Lung Association)
Asthma Medications for Kids (American Lung Association)
Emergency Signs of Asthma In Kids (American Lung Association)
Emergency Signs of Asthma In Kids (American Lung Association)
Asthma and Your Child (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Asthma and Your Child (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Asthma in Children (American Lung Association)
Asthma in Children (American Lung Association)
Behavioral and Cognitive Effects of Theophylline on Children (PharmInfo)
Behavioral and Cognitive Effects of Theophylline on Children (PharmInfo)
Childhood Allergies (AAAI)
Childhood Allergies (AAAI)
How to Help Your Child With Asthma (American Academy of Pediatrics)
How to Help Your Child With Asthma (American Academy of Pediatrics)
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AUTISM
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects educational performance.
Autism - American Academy of Neurology
Type "autism" in the search engine for the American Academy of Neurology website, and you will find a wide range of references.
Autistic Child
The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry offers Facts for Families. “The Child With Autism” is available in English, Spanish, German, and French.
Autism Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke answers questions such as what is autism, is there a treatment, what is the prognosis, and what research is being done.
Autism and Vaccines
This article from the American Academy of Pediatrics states how evidence shows genetics, not MMR vaccine, determines autism.
California - Autism Options
Offers families with autistic children information on improving attention, motivation, behavior, and motor skills using sensory processing techniques.
Center for the Study of Autism
The Center for the Study of Autism (CSA) is located in the Salem/Portland, Oregon area. The Center provides information about autism to parents and professionals, and conducts research on the efficacy of various therapeutic interventions. Much of our research is in collaboration with the Autism Research Institute in San Diego, California.
Developmental Delay Resources
Provides information and support resources for parents and for professionals caring for autistic and other developmentally delayed children.
Overview of Autism
From the Center for the Study of Autism, this paper provides a general overview of the complexity of this developmental disability by summarizing many of the major topics in autism.
Sibling Needs
Helpful Information for Parents (Center for the Study of Autism)
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DEAFNESS
A hearing impairment which is so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, which adversely affects educational performance.
Deafness and Family Communication Center
Deafness and Family Communication Center of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Deafness Research Foundation
Non-profit organization seeks to cure and prevent hearing loss. Explore their research and outreach efforts and find hearing health fact sheets.
Information on Deafness from Info to Go--Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet University
Info to Go serves as a centralized source of accurate, up-to-date, objective information on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss in ages 0-21.
Listen for Life Center
Comprehensive hearing services for adults, children, and infants are available from the Listen for Life Center at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, Washington.
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DEAF-BLINDNESS
Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which cause such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems that a child cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness.
Blindness Resource Center: Deaf-Blind/Hearing Disability Resources
Deaf-Blindness related links are listed here including resources on deafness. Two books about Laura Bridgman are available for 2001.
Deafblind Children Homepage
This page is being set up as a resource for parents of deafblind children. We face many challenges in our everyday lives looking after and communicating with our deafblind children.
National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
DB-LINK is federally funded information and a referral service that identifies, coordinates, and disseminates (at no cost) information related to children and youth who are deaf-blind (ages 0 to 21 years).
National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind (NTAC)
NTAC provides technical assistance to families and agencies serving children and young adults who are deaf-blind. In addition to information about the organizations, the site offers statistical data, state programs, and an up-to-date database of training activities.
North Carolina Deaf-Blind Associates
This site is fully accessible and managed by members who are deaf-blind. Check out their publications, surveys, and reports.
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MENTAL RETARDATION
Significantly sub average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, which adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Department of Mental Retardation
The Department of Mental Retardation (DMR) is a state agency that provides support to the Commonwealth’s citizens who have mental retardation.
Gentle Teaching
Non-aversive approach of teaching people with mental retardation with a focus on establishing safe and bonded interpersonal relations.
Kentucky Dept. of Mental Health
Consult this database to discover advocacy and therapy programs. Includes resources regarding mental retardation and substance abuse.
Mental Health / Mental Retardation Program
This page provides personal care, case management, resource coordination, and crisis intervention.
Pennsylvania Community Providers Association
Representing agencies to promote quality community services for persons with mental illness, mental retardation, and addictive disease.
Shriver Foundation
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc. is a training and research institute that answers questions about human development and to help children and adults with developmental disabilities reach their fullest potential.
Schubert Center for Child Development
Supports promising research in child development, as well as in areas of mental illness and mental retardation.
Wisconsin Personnel Development Project - WPDP
Wisconsin Personnel Development Project is the statewide personnel preparation and continuing education program for "Birth to 3" staff and families in Wisconsin.
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MULTIPLE DISABILITIES
Simultaneous impairments (such as mental retardation/blindness, mental retardation/ orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that the child cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include children with deaf-blindness.
ED429396 1998-04-00
This digest analyzes the definitions of disability in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It notes that, in order to be eligible for special education services under the act.
Edtech.sdcs.k12.ca.us
TEACHER TOPICS Students with Visual Impairments and Multiple Disabilities Twice in the last few months, when discussing the learning style and learning needs of a student with visual and severe disabilities.
NICHCY- General Info on Severe and/or Multiple Disabilities
General information about Severe and/or Multiple Disabilities including definition, incidence, characteristics, educational implications, and a list of resources and organizations.
Severe and/or Multiple Disabilities Fact Sheet
NICHCY has a number of fact sheets on high incidence disabilities. All fact sheets are free of charge. This fact sheet is on severe and multiple disabilities.
Special Education Service Agency
SESA is a public agency which provides assistance to Alaskan school districts and early intervention programs serving students with low incidence disabilities.
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ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENT
A severe orthopedic impairment is a condition that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly (e.g. clubfoot), impairments caused by disease (e.g. poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations).
Other Health Impaired and Orthopedically Impaired
This site includes the Statute Definitions for Other Health Impaired and Orthopedically Impaired conditions.
Parent Brochure
This brochure includes information for parents about orthopedic impairments.
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SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE
(I.) A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree, which adversely affects educational
performance: (A) an inability to learn which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors; (B) an inability to build or maintain satisfactory
interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers; (C) inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances; (D) a general pervasive mood of
unhappiness or depression; or (E) a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems. (II.) The term includes children
who have schizophrenia. The term does not include children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have a serious emotional disturbance.
Appendix D: Profiles of the Program Agenda
To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Children with Disabilities - 1996 Program for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance Division of Innovation and Development Office of Special Education Programs
CFDA: 93.104: Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED)
CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE 93.104: Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) Popular Name: CMHS Child Mental Health Service Initiative
Definition
Definition: Many terms are used to describe emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders. Currently, students with such disorders are categorized as having a serious emotional disturbance, which is defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Element 1431: Emotional disturbance/mental illness
The purpose of this element is to provide care and treatment for mentally ill adults and children, in the least restrictive setting appropriate to their needs.
Emotional Disturbance
This factsheet lists the definition, characteristics, educational implications, resources, and organizations for emotional disturbance.
Emotional Disturbance Fact Sheet
NICHCY has a number of fact sheets on high incidence disabilities. This fact sheet is emotional disturbance.
Emotional Impairments
Project PERFORM is an information and support resource for families of children with special needs in Michigan. Will help you locate information related to your child's ability or special needs.
ODE - Definition
Office of Special Education Specific Disabilities Autism Spectrum Disorder Deafblindness Emotional Disturbance Hearing Impairment/Deaf Mental Retardation Orthopedic Impairment Other Health Impairment Specific Learning Disability Speech
Respite for Families with Children Experiencing a Serious Emotional Disturbance
Respite, temporary relief for caregivers and families, should be provided as a regular component of family support services. As such, respite can be provided to families on either a planned or emergency basis. Respite allows families the time they need to renew their energies and continue caring for their children at home.
Supporting Students with Serious Emotional Disturbance in Rural Schools and Communities UAP of Vermont
This is a small rural k-8 school in northern Vermont that provides inclusive educational services for all their children, including children with severe emotional disturbance, within the regular education classrooms and school.
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SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain
injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include children who have learning problems which are primarily the
result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Children With Specific Learning Disabilities
Definition of "Children With Specific Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia Institute
Institute shares teaching and learning techniques with teachers and students. Offers special courses and funding for related projects.
Educational Programs for Dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, and Specific Learning Disability
Assessments, Individualized intensive reading and focusing program for children and adults with dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, and Specific Learning Disability or Disabilities. FCAT program.
Learning Disability Guidelines
Text Only Site STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES GUIDELINES FOR DOCUMENTATION OF SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITIES Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, individuals with Learning Disability………
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SPEECH OR LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or a voice impairment, which adversely affects a child's educational
performance.
Handitel - Speech Disorders
List of international resources to help with speech and communication impairments. Includes aids, organizations, and resources.
Speech and Language Characteristics of Children and Adults with Hearing Impairment
Speech and Language Characteristics of Children and Adults with Hearing Impairment 9/30/99 Click here to start Table of Contents Speech and Language Characteristics of Children and Adults with Hearing Impairment The Link Between Language and Hearing
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TOUR
Early Childhood Classrooms for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Tour two exemplary early childhood classrooms that honor every child's need to communicate and make meaning of his or her life. These early childhood classrooms promote language and literacy among young students with developmental disabilities.
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