"Good Links"

These are some websites that I have liked and have found helpful. I have gotten them from the professors I had while I was in school at E.T.S.U. or from the Washington County web page which has its own link below.  

Sullivan County School's Special Education Website
http://www.scde.k12.tn.us/speced/specialedframes.html
This site offers some early warning signs to watch for in children that may indicate delays, problems in development, and/or signs of differences from other children. Sullivan County's site provides information on what to do if a child is showing any of these signs.

East Tennessee State University's Center for Early Childhood Learning & Development
http://child.etsu.edu/
ETSU'S Early Childhood Learning & Development site has links to the events that pertain to early childhood interests (i.e. conferences, seminars, etc). There is also an application for child care services, a guide to the projects of the program, information on training, and information on their Reggio-Inspired approach to learning

Tennessean.com's School Report Card 2002
http://www.tennessean.com/schools/
The initial page of this site describes how the Report Card works. This site contains a scroll-down box where the viewer can find the county or city in which they are interested in finding data for the year 2002. Achievement of county/city schools, teacher salary, number of disciplines/expulsions, etc. are included in the search. A specific school scroll-down box is also included for those who are interested in a particular school.

Special Education Action Network of Tennessee
http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/spantn/
This page is concerned with families and advocates who are collaborating to ensure that children receive the best education possible. This site has a link to forums and workshops and has a Group of the Month link. There are Articles of Interest to peruse and various useful links.

Tennessee Code 49-10-101 Special Education Law
http://www.autismmidtenn.org/advocacy/speced_law/index.html
This site provides a list of links for each portion of this law. The user may scroll down the page to find anything from general provisions to home-bound instruction for pregnant students.

University of Virginia's Special Education Web site.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/specialed/
This site offers information about special education history, events, interventions, etc. Also included is a listing of Internet resources about special education and disability, links to information and resources arranged by categories of disability, information, and contact links to some professionals in special education and information for parents of students who need special education.

Federal Resource Center
http://www.dssc.org/frc/
This site contains information about the Federal Resource Center, about upcoming conferences, IDEA, publications, RRFC Network, and OSEP memos. Also included is a question and answer format about the provisions in the Individual with Disabilities Education Act Amendment of 1997 related to students with disabilities and state and district-wide assessment. There is also access to the National Monitoring and Promising Practices web site.

National Clearinghouse for Professionals in Special Education
http://www.special-ed-careers.org/
The National Clearinghouse for Professionals in Special Education (NCPSE) operated by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is an information resource for professionals and potential students in the fields of special education and the related services professions. NCPSE gathers, develops, and disseminates information on recruitment, preservice preparation, employment opportunities, and attrition and retention issues. The user may obtain fact sheets, focused bibliographies, demographic and related statistical data, Clearinghouse articles, targeted information briefs, and state agency resource contacts. The NCPSE also will respond to specific questions, provide free publications on focused professional topics, provide referrals to other organizations of associations, locate university accreditation resources, and provide custom searches on selected topics.

Gentle Teaching
http://www.gentleteaching.nl/
This site contains information concerning a nonviolent approach for helping people with special needs and sometimes challenging behaviors that focuses on four primary goals of care-giving. The four goals are teaching the person to feel safe, to feel engaged, to feel unconditionally loved, and to feel loving toward others.

About.com Special Education Site
http://www.specialed.about.com/education/specialed/index.htm?iam=dpile&terms=special+education This site includes information regarding the changes in regulation. It also contains information for parents who have children with special needs. For teachers it contains information about lesson plans and special education basics. There is also information about specific special education areas and behavioral issues. This site is loaded with all kinds of information on special education.

The Special Education Exchange
http://www.spedex.com
This site searches other sites and links on special education. It also searches for online documents, listings of professionals, job listings, school and university listings, conference announcements, items in the news, "poster sessions" which are mini-seminars, a bookstore to order educational supplies, and an area for discussing topics about special education.

Special Needs Education
http://www.schoolnet.ca/sne/
An Internet service providing resources for parents, teachers, schools, and other professional individuals groups and organizations involved in the education of students with special needs.

Special Education Resources for K-12
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/specialed.htm
This site is also called the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC). This is a meta-site at which teachers, librarians, parents, and students can review selected www resources on the topic of their choosing.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
http://www.ericec.org/
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERIC EC) is one of the 16 clearinghouses in the ERIC system. ERIC EC focuses on the professional literature, information, and resources relating to the education and development of persons of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted. It provides access to the ERIC database of information and ERIC Digests. Through the AskERIC services, the user may obtain answers to questions on disabilities and gifted education. The site links to other sources and organizations related to disabilities and giftedness. The ERIC EC will provide medical, legal, educational, and financial advice.

Disability Studies and Service Center
http://www.dssc.org/frc/
The FRC has a comprehensive index of technical assistance and dissemination projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS). The FRC mainpage also links to education-related resources on the web, organized according to the disabilities categories and by other topics (i.e. parents, teachers, schools, research, professional development, and technology). The user also may obtain information about the U.S. Government, U.S. Department of Education Offices, the Americans with Disabilities Act, special education finance, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and other legal and policy issues.

National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
http://www.nchrtm.okstate.edu/
The National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials (NCRTM) locates and distributes training materials in a wide variety of content areas for rehabilitation practitioners in state, federal, and private agencies nation wide. The materials include books, documents, and training materials developed under grants and contracts with RSA funds, and documents protected by copyright developed independent of RSA funds. The user may also obtain reference and research services from the NCRTM. The site links to other disability, education/counselor education, vocational/employment, and federal sites. NCRTM also links to A to Z Disability, Medical and Government Resources which is an alphabetical listing of disability, medical, and government sites.

University of Virginia web site for Learning Disabilities
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/categories/ld.html
This site offers a look at the definition of a learning disability and organizations. This site also offers articles, publications, and resources on learning disabilities especially dyslexia.

Learning Disability Online
http://www.ldonline.org/
This site is an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children.

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publist/953611.htm
This site talks about a booklet on up-to-date information on learning disabilities and the role of the National Institute of Mental Health sponsored research in discovering underlying causes and effective treatments.

The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
http://www.nichcy.org
This site covers information about The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY), publications, state resource sheets, and searches for organizations, IDEA 1997, information centers, and a listing of upcoming conferences.

Medicinenet
http://www.medicinenet.com
This site covers information about what dyslexia is, what causes it, symptoms, how it is diagnosed, treatments that are available, and related diseases and conditions.

Nonverbal Learning Disorder
http://www.nldontheweb.org/
This site contains information about nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), assessment, advocacy, intervention, local resources, and access to the NLD library.

HeliosHealth.com
http://www.helioshealth.com
This site covers mental health issues such as learning disabilities. It talks about what is a learning disability, types of learning disabilities, causes, outgrowth, cures, diagnosis, government aid, and research.

National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.ncld.org
The National Center for Learning Disabilities provides national leadership in support of children and adults with learning disabilities by providing information, resources, and referral services, developing and supporting interventions, etc.

The Council for Exceptional Children
http://www.cec.sped.org/
This site contains an enormous amount of information about issues concerning exceptional children. Included are updates, workshop information, divisions of CEC, and lots more.

CEC Divisions
http://www.cec.sped.org/dv/
This site contains information about the specialized divisions that provide additional focus and depth of information to a particular exceptionally or interest area in special education.


Division for Learning Disabilities
http://www.dldcec.org/
This web site covers information about this division of CEC particularly their mission statement, officers, Internet resources, and publications.

Office of Special Educational Programs
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/index.html
This web site is full of information on OSEP, IDEA, regulations, programs, materials, and training, etc.

National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education
http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/
This site contains a listing of library resources, articles, guided tours, workshops, events, and links to other web sites.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children
http://www.naeyc.org/
This web site contains information on NAEYC, their catalog, federal and state policies and regulations, resources, new research, and information on annual conference.

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org
This site covers topics of interest in the realm of education including the legal class size for special education, failures in special education, and information about the educators probing for changes in the federal special education law.

The Institute for the Development of Educational Activities, Inc.
http://www.idea.org
This web site contains information about the Institute for the Development of Educational Activities (IDEA) including data on their programs and services, tapes, fellows program and links to other web sites relating to IDEA.

National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education
http://www.special-ed-careers.org/
The web site for the National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education is a resource place for educators of children and youth with disabilities. Information included on this web site includes career information, employment opportunities, and research on special education and related service professionals.

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
http://www.agbell.org/
The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf is a nonprofit organization that was established to empower persons who are hearing impaired to function independently. At their site, the user may learn about a variety of programs including advocacy, conferences/workshops, financial aid, and publications. At the publications page, the book corner and the book review sections provide a brief description of books focused on hearing impairment issues.

Med Help International
http://www.medhelp.org/

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/

The Alliance for Technology Access
http://www.ataccess.org/

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org/

American Association on Mental Retardation
http://www.aamr.org/

American Association of People with Disabilities
http://www.aapd.com/

American Council of the Blind
http://www.acb.org/

American Foundation for the Blind
http://www.afb.org

American Hyperlexia Association
http://www.hyperlexia.org/

American Occupational Therapy Association
http://www.aota.org/

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
http://www.asha.org/

American Therapeutic Recreation Association
http://www.atra-tr.org/atra.htm

Anxiety Disorders Association of America
http://www.adaa.org/

Tash: Equity, Opportunity, and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
http://www.tash.org/

Attention Deficit Disorder Association
http://www.add.org/

Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
http://www.chadd.org/

International Dyslexia Association
http://www.interdys.org/index.jsp

Learning Disabilities Association of America
http://www.ldanatl.org

March of Dimes
http://www.modimes.org/

National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.ld.org/

Special Olympics
http://www.specialolympics.org/

Federation for Children with Special Needs
http://www.fcsn.org/

Understanding Disabilities, Creating Opportunities
http://www.ucpa.org/

National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
http://www.nichcy.org/
NICHCY is the national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. NICHCY provides information and makes referrals in areas related to specific disabilities, early intervention, special education and related services, individualized education programs, family issues, education rights, and transition to adult life. NICHCY will provide answers to specific questions; perform an information search on specific topics; and provide fact sheets, state resource sheets, parent guides, and bibliographies. The user may also link to disability organizations, parent groups, and professional associations.

www.enchantedlearning.com
This site provides information about different types of animals, birds, and insects to incorporate into the classroom. Printable pages and crafts also are available.

www.theideabox.com
The Idea Box has recipes, crafts, several games, and activities. There are numerous activities for the classroom.

www.makingfriends.com
Some of the crafts on this site must be purchased, but it does offer instructions on various crafts.

www.abcteach.com
This site offers over 5000 free printable pages. Want to personalize your portfolio? This site has pages for inclusion into student portfolios.

www.dltk-kids.com
This site has several printable crafts for kids.

www.childfun.com
This site offers tons of themes and activities for the classroom.

www.crayola.com
This site, for parents, educators, and kids, offers searchable printable pages for a specific activity. E-cards are also available for awareness months, etc.

www.songs4teachers.com
Over 100 songs and poems are free to download from this site.

www.totcity.com
This site has online games for toddlers and preschoolers. There is also a "find a preschool" link that allows the user to input their information and locate a preschool near you!

www.kidsource.com
Back-to-school topics, calendars, and book reviews are available here. Browse through the health and safety and education articles that are located on kidsource.com.

www.eric-carle.com
Looking for information about Eric Carle? This is where you need to be! This site has FAQs, book lists, upcoming events, and more.

www.atozkidsstuff.com
Art recipes and monthly themes for preschoolers are available at this site. Special Day and Rainy Day activities are provided.

www.wcde.org/  This is Washington County's website

www.wcde.org/gifted/home.htm Washington County's Gifted website