Deafness to Extended School Year Services

Deafness/Hearing Loss – Click Here

Developing Your Child’s IEP

• A good article to give to parents to alleviate their concerns about IEP’s.: This guide explains the basics of the special education process and gives you information on how to be an effective partner with your child’s school.

Developmental Disabilities – Click Here

Developmental Milestones

• Birth to 12 months-milestone chart

• Birth to 12 months-numerous articles on all aspects of this age level

• Toddler ages 13 months to 18 months-milestone chart

• Toddlers ages 19 months-24 months-milestone chart

• Toddlers 25 months to 36 months-milestone chart

• Toddlers 31months-36 months-milestone chart

• Toddlers 35 months to 36 months-numerous articles on all aspects of this age level

• Preschoolers ages 2yrs-4yrs-Numerous articles on all apsects of this age level

Dictionary: For Parents of Children with Disabilities

• This is an extensive glossary on special education terminology around. Great for teachers, parents and students.

Directory of Summer Camps

• Summer camps for children with disabilities: This is a guide to some of the directories and listings of summer camps. Half of these resources identify camps specifically intended for children who have disabilities. The other half are simply directories listing camp opportunities available to all children.

Disability Awareness

• Dealing with reading disabilities in children while teaching: Here’s an easy-to-ready synopsis and suggestions for teachers.

• Disability Etiquette: Here’s a 56-page, easy-to-read, text-light resource from the United Spinal Association. It discusses many different disabilities and offers very good suggestions on disability etiquette.

• Disability benefits for those with mental impairment? Speak up now! The Social Security Administration (SSA) has proposed changes to the way decisions are made for awarding disability benefits based on a mental impairment.

Down Syndrome – Click Here

DSM-IVTR-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Information

• Want to know more about the DSM-VI-TR, and how it was compiled?

Due Process in Special Education

• Brief overview of due process with example articles: A due process hearing is usually a formal, contested, adversarial trial. Special education cases are similar to medical malpractice cases, with battles of expert witnesses, and the emotions of bitterly contested divorce cases with child custody and equitable distribution issues.

Early Intervention

• A Judge’s Guide. Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Futures; A Judge’s Guide is jointly published by the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and ZERO TO THREE. It provides developmental information specific to the needs of very young children in foster care. While written for judges, this volume presents the latest research in a format useful to all professionals working with young children in foster care.

• Effective early childhood education programs: A systematic review. A new report published on the Best Evidence Encyclopedia website provides an extensive review of the research on the outcomes of 27 early childhood programs for children aged three to five in a group setting.
• Effective Practices in Early Intervention This resource page will connect you with the impressive knowledge base of experience the field has built regarding the delivery of early intervention services. Click Here

• An introduction to social and emotional learning. Emotional intelligence must be developed in children before any other learning can effectively take place.
• How states are addressing the needs of substance-exposed infants.
  An estimated 400,000-440,000 infants (10-11% of all births) each year are affected by prenatal alcohol or illicit drug exposure. This new report from the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW) examines state policy on this issue, looking at: prevention, intervention, identification, and treatment of prenatal substance exposure, including services for the infant, the mother, and the family.
• Planning for terrific transitions: This guide/training package focuses on the need to facilitate children’s transition to kindergarten. It’s designed to help transition-to-school teams improve their transition processes through more effective planning, implementation, and evaluation.The training package includes the trainer’s guide, a participant’s guide, a CD with all the transparencies needed, and a copy of all the handouts necessary for the training.

• Preventing challenging behaviors in young children with autism. The single best way to address challenging behaviors in young children today is to take steps to make sure that they never occur. While there is no universal panacea for preventing challenging behaviors, there are several broad-based early intervention strategies that researchers suggest to prevent challenging behaviors.

• Head Start 2008 state fact sheets.
  CLASP has created state fact sheets analyzing Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data for 2008, which all grantees are required to report annually to the federal government. Each profile includes all Head Start programs in the state: Early Head Start, Head Start preschool, American Indian and Alaskan Native Head Start, and Migrant/Seasonal Head Start.

– Find your state’s fact sheet.
http://www.clasp.org/in_the_states/

Educational Assessments-Who Administers the Tests? – Click Here

Educational Practices

• Learning modules on UDL.
  These two online modules by CAST introduce the theory, principles, and application of universal design for learning (UDL) to teacher candidates and in-service teachers.  http://udlonline.cast.org/home
  Effective reading interventions for students with learning disabilities.
  http://www.readingrockets.org/article/33084

Educational Report Writing and Examples – Click Here

Educational Research Information Center Digests (ERIC)

• What are ERIC Digests?: The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world�s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.

• Search the ERIC databases here

• good list of ERIC digest in special education: The following digests are from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERIC EC), one of 16 federally funded ERIC Clearinghouses.

Educational Terminology Associated with Special  Education – Click Here

Eligibility Committee (IEP Committee, CSE etc.) Presentation – Click Here

Emotional Disturbance – Click Here

Epilepsy – Click Here and scroll down to Epilepsy

Extended School Year Services

• Excellent overview: an example of the standards used in New Jersey.

• Good historical perspective as well as explanation-PDF file: In general, extended school year (ESY) refers to special education and/or related services provided beyond the normal school year of a public agency for the purpose of providing FAPE to a student with a disability. These services are distinct from enrichment programs, summer school programs, and compensatory services and are not simply an extension of time.