Early Childhood & Elementary Education
Answers4Families: Families with Special Needs Children
Resource for families with children, youth and adults with special needs, including disabilities and chronic illnesses of all types. Offers links to a wide variety of information to help connect to and learn from other families.
Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Guide
Guide about ADHD, including diagnosis, treatment options, legal requirements and ways to improve life at school and home for children diagnosed with ADHD.
Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice
Information and resources to improve services for children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems.
Child Care Centers & the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Frequently Asked Questions
Fact sheet concerning ADA requirements for privately-run child care centers.
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
Described & Captioned Media Program
Developmental Disability Research Centers (DDRCs)
Early Childhood Education Statistics
Elementary & Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center
Assists elementary and middle schools to improve education services for children with disabilities.
Elementary & Secondary Education Statistics
Provides information on issues faced by children and youth with disabilities (including physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities) and their families.
International Society for Technology in Education
A variety of tools and resources to help educators around the world bring educational technology into the classroom.
Features a kids magazine and art gallery for children with learning disabilities.
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Center
Provides information, training and technical assistance for parents and professionals to improve the quality of education and meet the needs of children (birth to age 21) who are deaf or hard of hearing.
A program that supports service-learning programs in schools and community organizations by providing resources and information to students, educators parents and non-profit professionals.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
National Center for Early Development & Learning
National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
National Center on Accelerating Student Learning
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions that the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities receives, including information on rare disorders and how to implement an inclusion model into a classroom setting.
National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC)
National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
Works collaboratively with families, federal, state and local agencies to provide technical assistance, information and personnel training in the field of deaf-blindness.
National Institute for Urban School Improvement
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Comprehensive information on all dimensions of school-based and community-based service-learning.
Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
PACER's National Center for Bullying Prevention
Promotes bullying awareness, teaches effective ways to respond to bullying and prevents bullying of all children, especially those with disabilities. Includes the Kids Against Bullying Web site, which teaches elementary school students about bullying and provides methods to deal with it whether they are targets or witnesses.
Seacoast Child Development Clinic
A fun site for children in which animals explain various aspects of Social Security and savings.
State Resources for Children & Youth with Disabilities
Two publications from the U.S. Department of Education, Identifying and Treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Resource for School and Home and Teaching Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Instructional Strategies and Practices, address the important issues related to the instruction of children with ADHD.
Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
Provides technical assistance, up-to-date information, and high quality resources and materials to Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs).
Using Computer-based Tests with Students with Disabilities
Computer-based testing has been called the "next frontier in testing" as educators, testing companies and state departments quickly work to transform paper and pencil tests into technology-based formats.