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Comprehensive inclusive education sites.

The website for the text Inclusive Teaching: Creating effective schools for all learners has many resources, staff development tools, and a wealth of links

Inclusion Press A site filled with resources, publications, videos, and other information related to inclusion and social justice.

National Institute for Urban School Improvement. Site with many resources regarding inclusive education practices that also help improve urban schools for all children.

Family Villages Inclusive Education Resources Site. A wonderful site with many resources related to families. These links are related to inclusive education.

Inclusion - Produced by the Renaissance Group This web site is designed for general education teachers, special education teachers, parents, and school staff to help provide some answers about how inclusive education can be accomplished. Resources for making accommodations are included as well as links to other web sites and resource lists for learning more about inclusive education.

InclusionYours, Mine, Ours Comprehensive inclusion resources. On site map, areas one can visit include: Research information for students, Suggestions for Classroom Teachers with Included Students, Suggestions for Special Education Teachers, Thoughts for Parents, and more.

TASH - Disability Advocacy Worldwide Site of The Association of Persons with Severe Handicaps, an organization dedicated to achieving equity, diversity, social justice, and inclusion. for persons with severe disabilities.

The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities. Organization with many resources, fact sheets, and other publications related to students with disabilities.

Inclusion Tips for Teachers This site has links to resources of information for teaching children with various disabilities.

Inclusive Education, Strategies for Success A collection of practical strategies teachers have used to successfully include students with developmental disabilities in the regular class.

Inclusion in Science Education for Students with Disabilities Inclusion in Science for Students with Disabilities is helpful for those interested in inclusion for students with a variety of physical and learning disabilities .

Highly Gifted Children in Full Inclusion Classrooms Article by Kathi Kearney, Gifted Education Consultant and Founder of The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children.

ProTeacher Special needs resources for special education teachers including inclusion and mainstreaming of gifted, blind, and at-risk students.

Circle of Inclusion The Circle of Inclusion Web Site is for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight.

Keys to Inclusion Site provides information for early childhood program administrators who are charged with developing inclusive comprehensive and coordinated services for all young children.

Inclusion, a Catalogue A free catalogue of resources for teaching professionals, learners, parents and careers. Resources include publications, software, hardware, guidance, and links to other organizations to aid independent living and learning.

State Initiatives (United States)

Florida Inclusion Network State program for human resource development, consultation, and information retrieval and dissemination to support all students to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.

Project CHOICES. Inclusive education project in Illinois.

Circle of inclusion. A great project in Kansas working to provide inclusion in early childhood for children with severe disabilities.

Michigan Network for Inclusive Schooling.A network of schools and university faculty working to provide mutual support and leadership for inclusive schooling.

Supported Education Team in Oregon.

Kids Together, Pennsylvania.

West Tennessee RISE Project Web page for collaboration between University of Memphis and schools of West Tennessee for Restructuring for Inclusive School Environments Project (RISE).

International inclusive education

Enabling Education Network. Site with links to inclusive education information throughout the world.

United Nations

UNESCO Education for All. An initiative to promote effective education for all children worldwide. Inclusive education is viewed as a central component of this process. The Salamanca Statement was developed and adopted by the United Nations at a conference representing 92 nations regarding inclusive education for students with disabilities in 1994. In a follow-up to this commitment, UNESCO engaged in an initiative to spur an increase in inclusive education in some 20 countries throughout the world in the Inclusive Schools and Community Support Programme.

Europe

Inclusive Education in Europe Web page is a result of collaboration of ten universities in Europe. Site includes links to meetings as well as information on publications including Special Education Ghent, and the European Electronic Journal on Inclusive Education.

Great Britain

Alliance for Inclusive Education London based organization of disabled people, parents of disabled children and their allies, campaigning for an end to compulsory segregation in the educational system.

Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education -- (CSIE) is an information link for anyone interested in "inclusion" in Great Britain.

Scotland

Scottish Executive: Implementing Inclusiveness Realising Potential Report of a committee which looked at the topics inclusive education in Scotland.

Educating Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms: A Summary of the Research Reviews research regarding inclusive education.

The Center on Human Policy The Center on Human Policy (CHP) is a Syracuse University based policy, research, and advocacy organization involved in the national movement to insure the rights of people with disabilities.

IDEA Practices This site provides comprehensive information and resources concerning the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Wrightslaw This site hosts hundreds of articles, cases, newsletters, and other information about special education law and advocacy in the Wrightslaw Libraries. Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about advocacy for children with disabilities.

Gifted and talented

Highly Gifted Children in Full Inclusion Classrooms Article by Kathi Kearney, Gifted Education Consultant and Founder of The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children.

National Association for Gifted Children.

What is This Thing Called Giftedness and How Do We Develop it? A 25 Year Perspective. Joseph S. Renzulli, Director The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. A comprehensive article that both reviews movements in gifted education and describes a total talent development and school-wide enrichment models designed to foster effective education of gifted students simultaneously with talent development of all children.

Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. Many online resources.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Gifted Education. Many resources and concise articles and other information.

Learning disabilities

LD (Learning Disabilities) Online LD Online is an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children. Included are links to basics about learning disabilities, resources, events, personal essays, kid-zone artwork samples, audio clips from experts, bulletin boards & chat and free newsletter.

National Center for Learning DisabilitiesThis site provides national leadership in support of children and adults with learning disabilities by offering information, resources, and referral services; developing and supporting innovative educational programs; promoting public awareness; and advocating for more effective policies and legislation.

Learning Disabilities Summit. Meeting held in 2001 to explore the current understanding and issues in teaching students with learning disabilities. Includes several papers and videos of presentations.

Cognitive disability (mental retardation)

The Arc of the United States The ARC is the country's largest voluntary organization committed to the welfare of all children and adults with mental retardation and their families.

National Down Syndrome Society This organization was established to increase public awareness about Down syndrome; to assist families in addressing the needs of children born with this genetic condition; and to sponsor and encourage scientific research.

National Fragile X Foundation. National organization for children with Fragile X syndrome, a hereditary condition which causes a wide range of mental impairment, from mild learning disabilities to severe mental retardation, and is the most common cause of genetically-inherited mental impairment.

President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Established by John F. Kennedy, this committee advises the President and Secretary of Health and Human Services on needs and policies related to people with mental retardation.

Developmental Disabilities Resource Center Page of Resource Links The site provides links of interest to people involved with the field of developmental disabilities.

General Information about Traumatic Brain Injury. A good summary information article from the National Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities.

Brain Injury Association of America.National association of and for people with brain injuries.

National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury. National center whose purpose is to provide practical information and resources for individuals, families, professionals and educators.

The Myth of ADHD. Article from the website of Thomas Armstrong, author of a book by this title. Has links to other articles that describe proactive strategies for dealing with students, including To Empower, Not Control. A Holistic Approach to ADHD and ADD as a Social Invention.

Hyperthink Press featuring the works of Carla Berg Nelson, an individual with ADHD and useful perspectives on thinking and learning.

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Founded in 1987 by a group of concerned parents, CHADD works to improve the lives of people with ADHD.

International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP).Directed by Peter Breggin, this site has much information regarding the use of drugs to control behavior of children and adults.

ADHD.com For families with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A positive resource with useful strategies and information.

Attention Deficit Disorder Links Project ADHD related LINKS resource.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice This site is dedicated to improving services to children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems. Included are links to people, places and events, mental health and social issues, listserv and discussions and more.

Promising Practices.Descriptions of multiple strategies that are working with children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral challenges. Includes examples of model schools.

Wrap-around Planning. A site that describes approaches to coordinate school and agency services to provide holistic support to children with behavioral challenges and their families.

Council for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. A division of the Council for Exceptional Children focuses on students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Several years of their journal, Beyond Behavior, are available online.

Disruptive and Disaffected Pupils in Mainstream Schools This site includes downloadable examples of Individual Behavior Plans and a sizeable database of references and strategies for teachers, parents and agencies involved with students with behavioral challenges included in general education.

Behaviour Change ConsultancyThis site contains thousands of links to classroom and behaviour management analysis, individual staff support, seminar modules in behaviour management for teachers in training, problem-analysis and intervention plans for parents and more.

The Autism Society of America The mission of the Autism Society of America is to promote lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities.

The Center for the Study of Autism Here are dozens of links to autism and autism-related resources including educational interventions, nutrition, research and related disorders.

Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support Comprehensive site by parents of children with Asperger Syndrome and related disorders for teachers, professionals, and others.

TEACCH - Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped CHildren An approach to helping students with autism learn. Includes links and resources.

Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS). Using pictures for schedules and other tasks can be helpful to students with autism. This page has many links to pratical resources. Pyramid Educational Consultants develops materials and training manuals. You can read notes regarding how PECS works and obtain many resources to use pictures for communications.

Social Stories is a very useful strategy where an adult and child together develop a story of a social situation in which a child needs specific cues and guidance. This site walks step by step through the process.

Recognizing Communication Disorders. Brief article that describes communication disorders and roles of various specialists.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ASHA is the professional and scientific association for more than 96,000 speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.

TASH. An international association of "people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm". This organization focuses on children and adults with severe disabilities and has particularly supported movements towards inclusive education.

Mainstreaming then and now. A brief article that reviews the movement towards inclusion of students who are deaf.

Project Inclusion. Project to dentify "universal" design principles, effective policies and practical programs related to the inclusion of deaf people within each partner country (Greece, Holland, Sweden and the USA) to assist people who are deaf to realize equality of opportunity in education and society. Rochester Institute of Technology.

American Academy of Audiology. Organization focusing on professional development, education, research, and increased public awareness of hearing disorders and audiologic services.

National Deaf Education Center. Center with much information from Gallaudet University.

Strategies for inclusion of children with a visual impairment. Tips from the Special Education Service Agency in Anchorage, Alaska.

National Federation of the Blind Founded in 1940, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is an organization of blind persons with fifty thousand members.

American Foundation for the Blind. The mission of this national organization is to enable people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve equality of access and opportunity that will ensure freedom of choice in their lives.

United Cerebral Palsy.Organization that is committed to change and progress for persons with disabilities.

Speech Therapy Activities The homepage was designed by an Occupational Therapist and Speech-Language Pathologist to provide basic building blocks for therapy for the child with Cerebral Palsy.

General Resources

Mobility International USA An organization dedicated to promoting international exchange; community service and leadership opportunities for people with disabilities.

For students with severe and physical disabilities, death is sometimes a reality. Check these resources for assistance in dealing with issues of death, dying, and grief: Grief and Loss Resource Center and Compassionate Friends

National Easter Seals Society. Organization dedicated to helping children and adults with disabilities and special needs gain greater independence.

American Occupational Therapy Association. Occupational therapists .provide assistance to people with disabilities in earning activities of self-care, work, and play using adaptive materials, tools, and devices, often involving fine motor skills with the use of arms and hands.

American Physical Therapy Association Physical therapists provides assessments and treatment related to muscle tone, posture, and movement designed to help people with physical difficulties be able to function and move effectively.

Pediatric AIDS .National Pediatric AIDS Network.

Arthritis. Arthritis Foundation.

Asthma. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, American Lung Association, Asthma Education Network.

Cancer in children. CancerKids, Children's Cancer Web: A Guide to Internet Resources for Childhood Cancer, The National Children's Cancer Society.

Cystric Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Diabetes. American Diabetes Association, Children with Diabetes, and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International.

Epilepsy and seizure disorders. Epilepsy Foundation of America, Kids Source Online: General Information about Epilepsy; Strategies for Teaching Students with Epilepsy.

Multiple sclerosis. National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Spina Bifida. Children with Spina Bifida A Resource Page for Parents & Professionals, Learning Among Children with Spina Bifida, and the Spina Bifida Association of America.

Spinal cord injury. National Spinal Cord Injury Association.

Tourette Syndrome. Tourette Syndrome Association The mission of this organization is to identify the cause of, find the cure for, and control the effects of this disorder.