The Access Center for Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
www.k8accesscenter.org/about/
The Access Center is a national technical assistance (TA) center funded by the
U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs to improve
educational outcomes for elementary and middle school students with
disabilities. We are dedicated to building the capacity of state educators, TA
systems, districts, schools, and individuals to help students with disabilities
engage in and learn from the general education curriculum.
CanChild - Centre for Childhood Disability Research
www.canchild.ca
CanChild is comprised of a multi-disciplinary team
working in the field of childhood disability. The aims
of this research centre are to:
- take a leadership
role in identifying emerging issues for research,
practice, policy and education
- conduct high-quality research
- effectively transfer knowledge into practice
at clinical and health system levels
- provide education for consumers, service
providers, policy makers and students
Center for Research on Education, Diversity
and Excellence
www.crede.ucsc.edu
CREDE is a federally funded research and development
program focused on improving the education of students
whose ability to reach their potential is challenged
by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location,
or poverty.
Clinical Information for School Based Personnel
www.state.sc.us/dmh/schoolbased/clininfo_sbpersonnel.htm
This Web site is maintained by the Department of Mental Health in South Carolina
and provides information for school personnel on a number of mental health issues.
Council for Exceptional Children
www.cec.sped.org
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international
professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for
individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the
gifted.
Education Resource Organization Directory
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that
provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related
topics.
ERIC Clearinghouse of Disabilities and Gifted
Education
www.eric.ed.gov
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education,
produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal
education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a
centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database
of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
Family Village
www.familyvillage.wisc.edu
Family Village is a Web site maintained by the Waisman Center, University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Family Village is a global community that integrates
information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet
for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families,
and for those that provide them services and support.
FAPE (Families and Advocates Partnership for
Education)
www.fape.org
The Families and Advocates Partnership
for Education (FAPE) project is a
strong partnership that aims to improve the educational outcomes for
children with disabilities. It links families, advocates, and self-advocates
to communicate the new focus of the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
The project represents the needs of 6 million children with disabilities.
HEATH Resource Center
www.heath.gwu.edu
Information exchange about educational support services, policies,
and procedures at post secondary learning institutions.
National Association of School Psychologists
www.nasponline.org
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 Center on Secondary Education and
Transition (NCSET)
www.ncset.org
The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition seeks to increase the
capacity of national, state and local agencies and organizations to improve
secondary education and transition results for youth with disabilities and
their families.
The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)
http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/
Maintained by the Institute for Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education, this comprehensive program sponsors special education research designed to expand the knowledge and understanding of infants, toddlers and children with disabilities.
National Council on Disability
www.ncd.gov
The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent federal agency
making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues affecting 54
million Americans with disabilities.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
www.nichcy.org
A national information center that provides information
on disabilities and disability-related issues.
National Early
Children Technical Assistance Center, NECTAS
www.nectac.org
The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center supports the implementation
of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA). Their mission is to strengthen service systems to ensure that children
with disabilities (birth through five) and their families receive and benefit
from high quality, culturally appropriate, and family-centered supports and services.
National Institute of Mental Health
www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/
This section offers information from NIMH about the
symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. Included are
brochures and information sheets, reports, press releases, fact sheets,
and other educational materials.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders
www.nidcd.nih.gov
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD) is one of the Institutes that comprise
the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is the Federal
government's focal point for the support of biomedical
research. NIH's mission is to uncover new knowledge that
will lead to better health for everyone.
National Mental Health Association
www.nmha.org
The National Mental Health Association is the country's
oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental
health and mental illness.
National Mental Health Information Center
www.samhsa.gov
SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving
the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative
services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society
resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
National Organization of Rare Diseases
http://www.rarediseases.org/
The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD),
a 501(c)3 organization, is a unique federation of voluntary
health organizations dedicated to helping people with
rare "orphan" diseases and assisting the organizations
that serve them. NORD is committed to the identification,
treatment, and cure of rare disorders through programs
of education, advocacy, research, and service.
Office of Special Education Programs,
US Department of Education
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/index.html?src=mr
OSEP directly and through its partners and grantees, develops a wide range of
research-based products, publications and resources to assist states, local
district personnel and families improve results for students with disabilities.
PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for
Educational Rights)
www.pacer.org
Founded in 1977, PACER Center was created by parents of children and youth with
disabilities to help other parents and families facing similar challenges.
Today, PACER Center expands opportunities and enhances the quality of life of
children and young adults with disabilities and their families. PACER is
staffed primarily by parents of children with disabilities and works in
coalition with 18 disability organizations.
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
www.pparx.org
The PPA provides a single point of access to more than 475 public and private patient assistance programs that could offer help to more than 2,500 prescription medicines, including a wide range of generics. The program offers assistance in more than 150 languages, and it is entirely free. If you or a loves one is having difficulty affording their medicines, they should try this new program. It only takes 15 minutes to find out if you qualify for help and it can make a big difference.
PBS Parents
www.pbs.org/parents/issuesadvice/
This Web site produced and maintained by PBS includes
information on Behavior & Development, Communicating, Disabilities,
Health & Safety, Media Awareness, Reading & Language, School & Education
and Work & Family.
UCLA School Mental Health Project
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/
The School Mental Health Project (SMHP) was created
in 1986 to pursue theory, research, practice and training related to
addressing mental health and psychosocial concerns through school-based
interventions. To these ends, SMHP works closely with school districts,
state agencies, the New American Schools Urban Learning Center model,
and organizations and colleagues across the country.
Western Regional Resource Center
www.rrfcnetwork.org/wrrc
The Western Regional Resource Center is part of a network of technical
assistance agencies funded by the US Department of Education, Office
of Special Education Programs (OSEP). The Western Regional Resource
Center serves the Special Education Agencies and Part C Lead Agencies
in region 6: Alaska, American Samoa, California, Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii,
Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of
Palau, and Washington.
