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External Links
The Maine Association of School Psychology provides you with the following
relevant links:
Education and Intervention Information
- National Dissemination
Center for Children with Disabilities: This site is sponsored by the
Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Dept. of Education. This site
provides information regarding IDEA.
- ADHD: This website is
the Special Needs Opportunity Windows website that provides online resources
and professional development opportunities for both teachers and parents of
students with special needs.
- WEAC: This website is an NEA affiliate and contained
information on inclusion and mainstreaming, as well as IDEA and court
decisions regarding placement under IDEA.
- SchoolNet Canada: This is a web site from the Canadian
government, but does provide links to dozens of websites available to those
interested in the education of students with special needs.
- Learning
Disabilities: This is a parents' guide to helping kids with learning
disabilities, but could also be a resource for educators.
- LearningNeds.com: This web site provides access to assistive
technology products. This would be a good resource if a teacher is looking for
something to help a particular student access his/her education.
- Learning Disabilities
Resources: This is a site that provides essays and articles on the various
aspects of learning disabilities.
- Child Development Info: This web site contains information
about anxiety disorders in children and adolescents including phobias, panic
disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder.
- Anxiety Disorders Association of America: This is the web
site for Anxiety Disorders Association of America and specifically for anxiety
disorders in children and adolescents. This is a good source of information
for all of the anxiety disorders.
- Autism Soceity of America: This is the Autism Society of
America's homepage and provides links to the latest information regarding
autism.
- Autism.org: This
website provides links to information for parents and educators regarding
autism, as well as related disorders, issues, and interventions.
- Asperger's Info: This provides access to information
regarding Asperger's Syndrome for both parents and educators.
- Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder: The Obsessive Compulsive Foundation, Inc.
- Behavioral Health:
This is web site that concerns the full range of behavior problems and
challenges displayed by children and adolescents in school and the community,
and also those behaviors that may affect their success in school.
- Evidence-based Progress
Monitoring
Family Health Information Sites that provide free
information
- Office on Women's Health :
Women: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. This site targets women's
issues in health.
- Office on Women's Health :
Teens: This site targets teenage girls issues, as well as a section for
their parents/caregivers.
- The Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: National Mental Health
Information Center. This site provides a wide array of information regarding
hot topics, grants and funding, hotline and help centers, as well as health
related links.
- National Institute of
Mental Health
- NAMI:
This web site for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and specifically
the child and adolescent action center provides access to information
regarding children's mental health issues.
- Learning Disabilities:
LDA's website for parents, teachers, and school
psychologists with helpful handouts and articles on all aspects of learning
disabilities.
- MedlinePlus:
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of
Health, this site provides information on thousands of prescription and
over-the-counter medications.
School Psychology Information Sites
- NASP Online: Information on school psychology
as a profession, NASP membership, National School Psychology Certification System, NASP
Career Resource Center, and intervention resources for practicing school psychologists.
- National Association of
School Psychologists: Information provided for parents and teachers as
well as SP's.
- International School
Psychology Association
- American Psychological
Association: This is the link to the American Psychological Association
that may be a resource at one time or another for educators.
- School Psychology:
Resources for Psychologists, Parents and Educators. Research learning disabilities, ADHD,
functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological
assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.
- DIBELS: The Dynamic Indicators of
Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually
administered measures of early literacy development available here for free
download.
Advocacy
- NASP
Advocacy Center
- Inclusion: This website is an NEA affiliate and contained
information on inclusion and mainstreaming, as well as IDEA and court
decisions regarding placement under IDEA.
- Mental Health Association of Westchester: This is the web
site of the Mental Health Association of Westchester, which provides a lot of
information regarding anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. It also
provides additional information links to the Anxiety Disorders Association of
America and the National Institute for Mental Health.
- Both of these above websites are a great source of
information from the University of Kansas. It provides a number of links to
help teachers better serve the students with special needs.
- National Center to
Improve Practice: This website is the National Center to Improve Practice
and provides links to resources for technology to enhance educational outcomes
for students with sensory, cognitive, physical, and social/emotional
disabilities.
- Advocacy Info by State:
This is a national link to information regarding inclusion in each state.
- Special Ed Info:
This is a great source for links to other sources of information. The sidebar
contains links to accommodation/tips, ADHD, behavior disorders. It also
contained some great information in the section called In the
Spotlight.
- SpecialNeeds.com: This link provides information regarding
the latest books that are available regarding providing services to students
with special needs.
- Special Needs Opportunity
Windows: This website is the Special Needs Opportunity Windows website
that provides online resources and professional development opportunities for
both teachers and parents of students with special needs.
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