Disabilities
A Process for Developing Community Consensus Regarding the Diagnosis and Management of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
This article describes a process used in Guilford County, North Carolina, to develop a consensus among health care providers, educators, and child advocates regarding the assessment and treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD. The outcome, ie, a community protocol followed by school personnel and community physicians for >10 years, ensures communication and collaboration between educators and physicians in the assessment and treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD.
About Our Kids
Provides questions and answers on a variety of issues surrounding ADHD.
ADDitude Magazine for People with ADHD
Contains information and inspiration for adults and children with attention deficit disorder.
ADDvance Online Resource for Women and Girls with ADHD
This site provides answers to questions about ADD (ADHD) for families and individuals at every stage of life from preschool through retirement years.
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Attention Deficit Disorder Association, ADDA, provides information, resources and networking opportunities to help adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) lead better lives. We provide hope, empowerment and connections worldwide by bringing together science and the human experience for both adults with AD/HD and professionals who serve them.
Autism Speaks
Research shows that many parents of young children are generally unaware of autism. This website is part of a campaign that seeks to educate parents about the growing rate of autism in this country and to ultimately increase the level of early detection. Parents, counselors and teachers are encouraged to visit www.autismspeaks.org to learn the signs of the disorder.
Behavior Modification for ADHD
This site provides a list of techniques to try with elementary, middle, and high school students. Very specific details to implement the suggestions are provided!
Breaking the Silence
At this site, you can order lesson plans, games and posters about mental illness. These tools are appropriate for upper elementary, middle and high school students and help put a human face on mental illness and confront the myths that reinforce the silence.
Can Do!
The Can Do! web site offers stories, activities, and resources to help create a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how people can overcome their challenges and reach their dreams by using their abilities and a "can-do" attitude.
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
CHADD is a non-profit organization serving individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Through collaborative leadership, advocacy, research, education and support, CHADD provides science-based, evidence-based information about AD/HD to parents, educators, professionals, the media and the general public.
Children's Craniofacial Association
Children's Craniofacial Association is a national, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with facial differences and their families. Nationally and internationally, CCA addresses the medical, financial, psychosocial, emotional, and educational concerns relating to craniofacial conditions.
Children's Learning Centers
Currently 47 Children's Learning Centers in 15 states provide tutoring at no charge to children from kindergarten through high school who have been diagnosed as dyslexic. Children are eligible regardless of economic status, race, religion, or Masonic affiliation.
Collection on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The IDEA Partnership is pleased to announce the release of its new Collection on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The attached description provides information that you may use to create an announcement for your electronic newsletters, etc.
Council of Educators for Students with Disabilities, Inc.
Section 504 & IDEA training and resources for educators.
Do 2 Learn
Games, songs, communication cards, print resources, and information for special needs.
Florida's Positive Behavior Support Project
Nice videos on RtI and Positive Behavior Support
Friends Of Quinn
Freinds of Quinn is a website dedicated to providing parents with information on and what to do if they suspect their child has a learning disability, where to find support for their child if they are diagnosed, and available resources for helping a child with a diagnosis succeed in all areas of their development. On FOQ - you can read a blog written by Quinn, the son of famous journalists Ben Bradley and Sally Quinn who has lived with a diagnosis since childhood, link to current resources, or even create your own blog.
Games ADD People Play
One aspect of ADD folks that parents, spouses, teachers, therapists and other professionals fail to appreciate is that many of the behaviors that interfere with classroom functioning and interpersonal relationships are driven by the ADHD individual's need to create stimulation and, thus, "turn on" their brains. Dr. Daniel Amen makes the distinction that these behaviors are brain-driven, not will-driven. He has a chapter in his book, Healing ADD, entitled "The Games ADD People Play," which gives a tantalizing synopsis of behaviors that family members, friends and professionals take personally, but which are simply unconscious strategies to get certain-parts of the brain to "fire."
IDEA Partnership
The Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004
Explains the IDEA law, guidance from USDOE, articles and news relating to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.
LD Online
The leading Website on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.
Learning Disabilities Association of America
LDA is dedicated to identifying causes and promoting prevention of learning disabilities and to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families by encouraging effective identification and intervention, fostering research, and protecting their rights under the law.
Misunderstood Minds
Created by PBS, this website examines ADHD by providing general information about attention, how difficulties with attention may mask other issues, and how to help students with attention difficulties. There is also a section where you can experience firsthand what it is like to read and listen with distractions.
National Association of School Psychologists
The National Association of School Psychologists represents and supports school psychology through leadership to enhance the mental health and educational competence of all children.
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.
NASDSE provides support to all states and territories in the delivery of quality education to children and youth with disabilities through training, technical assistance, research, policy development and powerful collaborative relationships with other organizations and all constituencies.
National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
This website provides information on the issues that students experiencing homelessness face. If you work with highly mobile students, this website is for you.
National Center on Response Intervention
This site offers tools for RTI and and an extensive list of RTI reltated topics.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
A comprehensive Web site containing personal responses to questions on disability issues, referrals to other organizations and publications in English and Spanish, as well as technical assistance to parent and professional groups.
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
NRCLD offers tools in screening for and helping with RTI as well as their research on RTI and others special learning disabilities.
National Resource Center on AD/HD
The National Resource Center on AD/HD: A Program of CHADD has been established with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be a national clearinghouse of information and resources concerning this important public health concern.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
OSERS web site includes a wide array of information for families, school districts and states in three main areas: special education, vocational rehabilitation and research.
One ADD Place
You will find information on both child and adult attention deficit disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder here. Learn the ADD and ADHD symptoms and how to test for them and discover the latest natural treatments and pharmaceutical medications and medicines.
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
The PACER Center's mission is to improve and expand opportunities that enhance the quality of life for children and young adults with all disabilities and their families.
Parents Helping Parents: Parent-Directed Family Resource Center for Children with Special Needs
PHP is a 28-year-old nonprofit, family resource center that benefits children with special needs. This includes children of all ages (birth through life) and all backgrounds who have a need for special services due to any special need, including but not limited to illness, cancer, accidents, birth defects, neurological conditions, premature birth, learning or physical disabilities, mental health issues, and attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder to name a few.
Regional Resource Center Program
The Regional Resource Centers Program provides service to all states as well as the Pacific jurisdictions, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The six regional program centers are funded by the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to assist state education agencies in the systemic improvement of education programs, practices, and policies that affect children and youth with disabilities. Services offered by the RRC Program include consultation, information services, specially designed technical assistance, training, and product development.
Resolution Meetings: State Supports and Practices
This In-Brief Policy Analysis is based on a survey sent to all special education units of state education agencies and interviews with eight states. Findings are synthesized for types of supports provided, frequency of resolution meetings, factors that impact the use of resolution meetings, and states’ needs to support the implementation of resolution meetings. Conclusions are drawn based on the survey results.
Results for Kids: Resources (RKR) Library
This work in progress is a large collection of information on eleven topics that address all struggling learners - with annotations and links to (a) evidence-based programs; (b) tools and strategies; (b) reports, studies, and guides; and (d) web-based resources. These cover a range of subjects/skills -- plus information on schools, districts, States, and more.
RTI Action Network
The RTI Action Network site provides definitions, models, essential components and additional articles to support educators quests in improving education for all students.
SAMHSA: Stop Stigma Resource Center
SAMHSA’s redesigned Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness debuted last week with a new library of more than 600 resources including articles, fact sheets, toolkits, and brochures. The site features information and advice to help individuals and organizations counter discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness. The site also includes materials and playback information from more than 25 teleconference training events and an interactive map showcasing programs around the country that aim to reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness.
Section 504
This website addresses Section 504 which is a civil rights law. Section 504 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Section 504 ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education. The child may receive accommodations and modifications.
Teaching LD.Org
TeachingLD provides trustworthy and up-to-date resources about teaching students with learning disabilities.
The Children in Court
This American Academy of Pediatrics article identifies stressors children can experience when involved in court proceedings.
The Iris Center Star Legacy Modules: Challenge Cycle
This module, from the Iris Center, highlights the steps of the assessment process for each tier of the standard treatment protocol approach and describes how to use the assessment data to make instructional, or tier, decisions.
The Iris Center: Instructor's Tips
Guides for instructors working in special education.
The Learning Port
The National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) is pleased to announce the launching of LearningPort. LearningPort is a national professional development library of free learning modules, tool kits, archived webinars and video resources conceived by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to support the use of ARRA funds. It was developed through funds made available to NASDSE’s IDEA Partnership.
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
The site contains information for professionals and parents supporting transition-aged youth with disabilities.
Truth in Labeling
Truth in Labeling is a collaborative effort of the NEA and the National Association of School Psychologists. The guide provides educators with basic information about disproportionality – what it is, what causes it, and what the implications are for students, schools, and the community. It offers recommendations on addressing disproportionality at the classroom, school, and community levels, and it includes helpful research references and resources.
Types of ADD/ADHD in the form of the characters from Winnie the Pooh
Describes the different characteristics of ADD/ADHD through Winnie the Pooh characters.
Wrightslaw
Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities. You will find articles, cases, newsletters, and resources about dozens of topics in the Advocacy Libraries and Law Libraries.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.
This article describes a process used in Guilford County, North Carolina, to develop a consensus among health care providers, educators, and child advocates regarding the assessment and treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD. The outcome, ie, a community protocol followed by school personnel and community physicians for >10 years, ensures communication and collaboration between educators and physicians in the assessment and treatment of children with symptoms of ADHD.
About Our Kids
Provides questions and answers on a variety of issues surrounding ADHD.
ADDitude Magazine for People with ADHD
Contains information and inspiration for adults and children with attention deficit disorder.
ADDvance Online Resource for Women and Girls with ADHD
This site provides answers to questions about ADD (ADHD) for families and individuals at every stage of life from preschool through retirement years.
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Attention Deficit Disorder Association, ADDA, provides information, resources and networking opportunities to help adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) lead better lives. We provide hope, empowerment and connections worldwide by bringing together science and the human experience for both adults with AD/HD and professionals who serve them.
Autism Speaks
Research shows that many parents of young children are generally unaware of autism. This website is part of a campaign that seeks to educate parents about the growing rate of autism in this country and to ultimately increase the level of early detection. Parents, counselors and teachers are encouraged to visit www.autismspeaks.org to learn the signs of the disorder.
Behavior Modification for ADHD
This site provides a list of techniques to try with elementary, middle, and high school students. Very specific details to implement the suggestions are provided!
Breaking the Silence
At this site, you can order lesson plans, games and posters about mental illness. These tools are appropriate for upper elementary, middle and high school students and help put a human face on mental illness and confront the myths that reinforce the silence.
Can Do!
The Can Do! web site offers stories, activities, and resources to help create a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how people can overcome their challenges and reach their dreams by using their abilities and a "can-do" attitude.
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
CHADD is a non-profit organization serving individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Through collaborative leadership, advocacy, research, education and support, CHADD provides science-based, evidence-based information about AD/HD to parents, educators, professionals, the media and the general public.
Children's Craniofacial Association
Children's Craniofacial Association is a national, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with facial differences and their families. Nationally and internationally, CCA addresses the medical, financial, psychosocial, emotional, and educational concerns relating to craniofacial conditions.
Children's Learning Centers
Currently 47 Children's Learning Centers in 15 states provide tutoring at no charge to children from kindergarten through high school who have been diagnosed as dyslexic. Children are eligible regardless of economic status, race, religion, or Masonic affiliation.
Collection on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The IDEA Partnership is pleased to announce the release of its new Collection on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The attached description provides information that you may use to create an announcement for your electronic newsletters, etc.
Council of Educators for Students with Disabilities, Inc.
Section 504 & IDEA training and resources for educators.
Do 2 Learn
Games, songs, communication cards, print resources, and information for special needs.
Florida's Positive Behavior Support Project
Nice videos on RtI and Positive Behavior Support
Friends Of Quinn
Freinds of Quinn is a website dedicated to providing parents with information on and what to do if they suspect their child has a learning disability, where to find support for their child if they are diagnosed, and available resources for helping a child with a diagnosis succeed in all areas of their development. On FOQ - you can read a blog written by Quinn, the son of famous journalists Ben Bradley and Sally Quinn who has lived with a diagnosis since childhood, link to current resources, or even create your own blog.
Games ADD People Play
One aspect of ADD folks that parents, spouses, teachers, therapists and other professionals fail to appreciate is that many of the behaviors that interfere with classroom functioning and interpersonal relationships are driven by the ADHD individual's need to create stimulation and, thus, "turn on" their brains. Dr. Daniel Amen makes the distinction that these behaviors are brain-driven, not will-driven. He has a chapter in his book, Healing ADD, entitled "The Games ADD People Play," which gives a tantalizing synopsis of behaviors that family members, friends and professionals take personally, but which are simply unconscious strategies to get certain-parts of the brain to "fire."
IDEA Partnership
The Partnership is dedicated to improving outcomes for students and youth with disabilities by joining state agencies and stakeholders through shared work and learning.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004
Explains the IDEA law, guidance from USDOE, articles and news relating to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.
LD Online
The leading Website on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.
Learning Disabilities Association of America
LDA is dedicated to identifying causes and promoting prevention of learning disabilities and to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families by encouraging effective identification and intervention, fostering research, and protecting their rights under the law.
Misunderstood Minds
Created by PBS, this website examines ADHD by providing general information about attention, how difficulties with attention may mask other issues, and how to help students with attention difficulties. There is also a section where you can experience firsthand what it is like to read and listen with distractions.
National Association of School Psychologists
The National Association of School Psychologists represents and supports school psychology through leadership to enhance the mental health and educational competence of all children.
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.
NASDSE provides support to all states and territories in the delivery of quality education to children and youth with disabilities through training, technical assistance, research, policy development and powerful collaborative relationships with other organizations and all constituencies.
National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE
This website provides information on the issues that students experiencing homelessness face. If you work with highly mobile students, this website is for you.
National Center on Response Intervention
This site offers tools for RTI and and an extensive list of RTI reltated topics.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
A comprehensive Web site containing personal responses to questions on disability issues, referrals to other organizations and publications in English and Spanish, as well as technical assistance to parent and professional groups.
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
NRCLD offers tools in screening for and helping with RTI as well as their research on RTI and others special learning disabilities.
National Resource Center on AD/HD
The National Resource Center on AD/HD: A Program of CHADD has been established with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be a national clearinghouse of information and resources concerning this important public health concern.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
OSERS web site includes a wide array of information for families, school districts and states in three main areas: special education, vocational rehabilitation and research.
One ADD Place
You will find information on both child and adult attention deficit disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder here. Learn the ADD and ADHD symptoms and how to test for them and discover the latest natural treatments and pharmaceutical medications and medicines.
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
The PACER Center's mission is to improve and expand opportunities that enhance the quality of life for children and young adults with all disabilities and their families.
Parents Helping Parents: Parent-Directed Family Resource Center for Children with Special Needs
PHP is a 28-year-old nonprofit, family resource center that benefits children with special needs. This includes children of all ages (birth through life) and all backgrounds who have a need for special services due to any special need, including but not limited to illness, cancer, accidents, birth defects, neurological conditions, premature birth, learning or physical disabilities, mental health issues, and attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder to name a few.
Regional Resource Center Program
The Regional Resource Centers Program provides service to all states as well as the Pacific jurisdictions, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The six regional program centers are funded by the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to assist state education agencies in the systemic improvement of education programs, practices, and policies that affect children and youth with disabilities. Services offered by the RRC Program include consultation, information services, specially designed technical assistance, training, and product development.
Resolution Meetings: State Supports and Practices
This In-Brief Policy Analysis is based on a survey sent to all special education units of state education agencies and interviews with eight states. Findings are synthesized for types of supports provided, frequency of resolution meetings, factors that impact the use of resolution meetings, and states’ needs to support the implementation of resolution meetings. Conclusions are drawn based on the survey results.
Results for Kids: Resources (RKR) Library
This work in progress is a large collection of information on eleven topics that address all struggling learners - with annotations and links to (a) evidence-based programs; (b) tools and strategies; (b) reports, studies, and guides; and (d) web-based resources. These cover a range of subjects/skills -- plus information on schools, districts, States, and more.
RTI Action Network
The RTI Action Network site provides definitions, models, essential components and additional articles to support educators quests in improving education for all students.
SAMHSA: Stop Stigma Resource Center
SAMHSA’s redesigned Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated with Mental Illness debuted last week with a new library of more than 600 resources including articles, fact sheets, toolkits, and brochures. The site features information and advice to help individuals and organizations counter discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness. The site also includes materials and playback information from more than 25 teleconference training events and an interactive map showcasing programs around the country that aim to reduce discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness.
Section 504
This website addresses Section 504 which is a civil rights law. Section 504 prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. Section 504 ensures that the child with a disability has equal access to an education. The child may receive accommodations and modifications.
Teaching LD.Org
TeachingLD provides trustworthy and up-to-date resources about teaching students with learning disabilities.
The Children in Court
This American Academy of Pediatrics article identifies stressors children can experience when involved in court proceedings.
The Iris Center Star Legacy Modules: Challenge Cycle
This module, from the Iris Center, highlights the steps of the assessment process for each tier of the standard treatment protocol approach and describes how to use the assessment data to make instructional, or tier, decisions.
The Iris Center: Instructor's Tips
Guides for instructors working in special education.
The Learning Port
The National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) is pleased to announce the launching of LearningPort. LearningPort is a national professional development library of free learning modules, tool kits, archived webinars and video resources conceived by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to support the use of ARRA funds. It was developed through funds made available to NASDSE’s IDEA Partnership.
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
The site contains information for professionals and parents supporting transition-aged youth with disabilities.
Truth in Labeling
Truth in Labeling is a collaborative effort of the NEA and the National Association of School Psychologists. The guide provides educators with basic information about disproportionality – what it is, what causes it, and what the implications are for students, schools, and the community. It offers recommendations on addressing disproportionality at the classroom, school, and community levels, and it includes helpful research references and resources.
Types of ADD/ADHD in the form of the characters from Winnie the Pooh
Describes the different characteristics of ADD/ADHD through Winnie the Pooh characters.
Wrightslaw
Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities. You will find articles, cases, newsletters, and resources about dozens of topics in the Advocacy Libraries and Law Libraries.
The organizations, Web sites and other resources listed here are not exhaustive, nor is their inclusion intended as an endorsement by the American School Counselor Association. Rather, these listings are intended to assist school counselors in their efforts to better address children's academic, career, and personal/social development needs.