Special Needs

Special Needs Links

• Teaching Language Concepts to Multihandicapped Deaf Students Research report which focuses on instruction of young children.
  
• Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development Producing a comprehensive, individualized measurement system for children with disabilities from birth to eight years of age. Site includes program goals and contact information.
  
• Learning Disabilities Resources Offers new articles about learning disabilities each week. Also features children's artwork and stories.
  
• The Parent-Child Home Program Home-based literacy and parenting program serving families challenged by poverty, low-levels of education, language barriers and other obstacles to educational success.
  
• Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center Site An educational, service, and supply resource for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech impaired people. Has a parent-infant program for parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
  
• Assessment of Preschool Children ERIC Digest discusses history of preschool assessment and explores current trends in identifying special needs students.
  
• Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential Nonprofit educational organization introduces caregivers to the field of child brain development. Serves both brain-injured children and well children.
  
• Preschoolers: Learning and Other Disabilities Links to articles on learning and other disabilities that have information and advice directly relevant to preschool children. Rating system rates each articles as good, very good, or best.
  
• Meeting the Needs of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children with Disabilities Summarizes U.S. requirements for meeting the needs of special needs children under the age of 5 in the public school classroom.
  
• Aba Resources for Recovery from Autism Information on educational intervention for autism and related pervasive developmental disorders.