Texts & publisher's websites
Houghton Mifflin's Resources in Special Education
Class presentations
Background
Assessment accommodations: What we have learned from Research
Assessment accommodations: Mass DOE
Response to Intervention The class ppt is the Introductory presentation under The Beginning Collection
Intellectual Disability and Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury (first part of "Organic Mental Disorders")
Learning Disabilities
Albert Einstein had Dyslexia: Students with disabilities in the Honors Program.
Kurzweil 3000 demonstration
Communication
Behavior Problems related to ADHD, ODD, CD Meet in O'Leary 5th floor conference room with Dr. Ossen
Overview ppt
Improving Executive Function Skills...Enhance Learning in All Children, Council for Exceptional Children
Explaining Executive Function Parent's Magazine
Internalizing Disorders and Developmental Trauma
Frontline Video: A Class Divided (Originally called Eye of the Storm)
MA Dept. of Education Reporting Suspected Child Abuse
National Center for PTSD Children & Trauma
Arcus (2006) Helping Children when Trauma Complicates Grief
Arcus (2002) School shooting and corporal punishment
Perry (2005) Maltreatment and the Developing Child
Hearing and Vision
NIDCD Interactive Sound Ruler Online Student Activities: Hearing
Facial change across the 5-7 shift
West VA University Strategies for teaching students with hearing impairments
Sample PIPIC Color Vision Test
Visicheck Correcting images for colorblind viewers
Mayer Visual Field simulation
West Virginia University Strategies for teaching students with vision impairments
Communication: Parents, Team, and Classroom
Getting to Know your Classmates with Special Needs, Leahy, 1992.
Social environments for successful inclusion NASET updated
Successful Parent Communication, NASET updated
AACAP Facts for Families: Conduct Disorders & Oppositional Defiant Disorder
The UMass Lowell Office for Disabilities
Lowell Public Schools, Department of Special Education
Massachusetts Dept. of Education. Office of Special Education Planning and Programs (home page--note extensive links)
US Dept. of Education. Office for Special Education Programs
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCD)
University of Kansas Special Connections, a website "connecting teachers with strategies that help students with special needs successfully access the general education curriculum."
CAST Teaching Every Student (UDL and assistive technology for classrooms)
Other Assistive Technology
The UMass Lowell Assistive Technology Project
Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, Boston Unit
Kurzweil Educational Systems offers the Kurzweil 3000, comprehensive text to speech software
Legislative and historical information and resources
Side by side comparisons of IDEA 97 and IDEA04: Wrightslaw, National Association of State Directors of Special Education
Assessment accommodations:
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) statement on Universal Design for Learning
Inclusive education by the Renaissance Group, University of Northern Iowa. Many useful resources!
West Virginia University Inclusion in Science Education for Students with Disabilities; see also Inclusion in Mathematics
NICHCY Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: Research to Practice Database
A Parent's Guide to Special Education (K-12) *****
R. Martin, attorney, Regular Teacher's Rights in Special Education
Susanne Carter & CADRE (2003). Educating Our Children Together: A Sourcebook for Effective Family-School-Community Partnerships
DSM-IV information and links by Psychnet UK. Information sheets for individual DSM-IV disorders and additional disorders not classified on the DSM are listed alphabetically at the bottom of page.
IDEA 97 reauthorization information and updates
Side by side comparisons of IDEA 97 and IDEA04:
Frontline on neuroanatomical changes in the adolescent brain
Learning Disabilities
LD Online: Comprehensive source for Learning Disability information and support
Learning Disabilities Association of America: resources and links
Dyslexia Awareness Resource Center. Info and resources on dyslexia and treatment methods. Additional info on ADHD.
Thompson, S. (1996). Neurobehavioral Characteristics Seen in the Classroom: Developing an Educational Plan for the Student with NLD. Retrieved March 16, 2005 from http://www.nldontheweb.org/thompson-5.htm
Lyon, G.R. & Fletcher, J.M. (2001). Early Warning Signs. Education Matters, 1 (2). Online at Hoover Institute, Stanford U
Eden, G.F. & Moats, L. (2002). The role of neuroscience in the remediation of students with dyslexia. Nature Neuroscience 5, 1080 - 1084. Online
WrightsLaw: Comprehensive source for special education law and advocacy
The Advocacy Center New York organization designed to support individuals with disabilities and their families. Extensive resources and links.
Examples of remedial reading programs and assessment materials
Inclusive and supportive teaching strategies for post-secondary (college) teachers
DSM-IV Autistic Disorders criteria
SSRI treatment for depression: What is the mechanism? American Scientist paper reprinted by BLTC.com
Risks of antidepressant (SSRI) medication use for children and adolescents?
NIMH information for parents and caregivers
APA School-Based Program Teaches Skills That Stave Off Depression
Visual impairments
MA Guide to services for individuals with vision impairments
PTSD
US Dept Health & Human Services SAMHSA Tips for Talking about Traumatic Events
MA Citizens for Children: A State Call to Action: Working to end child abuse and neglect in Massachusetts
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Childhood Traumatic Grief
NCTSN Child Refugees
American Psychological Association (APA) What to Expect after Trauma
APA Public Education Materials to Help Kids Cope with Terrorism
Rape Crisis Center of Lowell
The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, Brookline, MA
References/bibliography for various areas of disability Click "Disability Info" on sidebar