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.

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Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO)

Provides information on assistive technology applications that help students with disabilities (including physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities) learn in elementary classrooms.
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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.

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Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice

Information and resources to improve services for children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems.

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Child Care Centers & the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Frequently Asked Questions

Fact sheet concerning ADA requirements for privately-run child care centers.

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Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)

Professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for exceptional individuals, students with disabilities and/or the gifted students.
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Described & Captioned Media Program

Program provides services for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind. Available to schools and families are a free loan library of described and captioned educational media and information related to accessible media.
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Developmental Disability Research Centers (DDRCs)

Select your state to find contact information for DDRCs. DDRCs are located within research universities and/or are affiliated with major medical centers, and represent the world's largest concentration of scientific expertise in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Early Childhood Education Statistics

Information from the National Center for Education Statistics on early childhood education.
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Early Connections

Resources for educators and care providers who want to connect technology with the way young children learn.
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Elementary & Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center

Assists elementary and middle schools to improve education services for children with disabilities.

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Elementary & Secondary Education Statistics

Information from the National Center for Education Statistics on elementary and secondary education.
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Family Village

Provides information on issues faced by children and youth with disabilities (including physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities) and their families.

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First Signs

A national non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents and professionals about the early warning signs of autism and related disorders.
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Inclusion Statistics

Information from the National Center for Education Statistics on inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
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International Society for Technology in Education

A variety of tools and resources to help educators around the world bring educational technology into the classroom.

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LD Online's KidZone

Features a kids magazine and art gallery for children with learning disabilities.

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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.

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Learn & Serve America (LSA)

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.

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National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Resource and information for teachers, families and students with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
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National Center for Early Development & Learning

Links to news, research, and publications with a focus on enhancing the cognitive, social and emotional development of children from birth through age eight.
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National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)

Parents and educators may access resources to ensure that the nation's 15 million children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work and life.
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National Center on Accelerating Student Learning

Designed to accelerate learning for students with disabilities in the early grades to provide a solid foundation for strong achievement in the intermediate grades and beyond.
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

A central source for information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) as it relates to children with disabilities and effective educational practices.
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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.

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National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center

Assistance and information about services for infants, toddlers and young children with disabilities.
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National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC)

Research publication related to successful transitions between infant/toddler programs, preschool programs and public school programs for young children with disabilities and their families.
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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.

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National Institute for Urban School Improvement

Supports inclusive urban communities, schools and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education.
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National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

Comprehensive information on all dimensions of school-based and community-based service-learning.

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Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to frequently asked questions about the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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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.

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Seacoast Child Development Clinic

Links on a variety of topics including education and learning disabilities from the clinical component of New Hampshire's University Center of Excellence.
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Social Security for Kids

A fun site for children in which animals explain various aspects of Social Security and savings.

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State Resources for Children & Youth with Disabilities

State resource page helps you locate organizations and agencies within your state that address disability-related issues, including governors and U.S. senators, state agencies serving children and youth with disabilities, state chapters of disability organizations and parent groups and parent training and information projects.
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Students with Disabilities

Information from the National Center for Education Statistics regarding students with disabilities.
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Teaching Children with ADHD

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.

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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).

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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.

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