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EDUCATIONAL HELPS ...
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Autism and Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - Autism is a developmental disability
that affects a person's ability to
communicate, understand language, play, and
interact with others. Autism is a behavioral
syndrome, which means ....
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Autism Spectrum Disorders
(Pervasive Developmental Disorders)
National Institute of Mental Health - A detailed
booklet that describes symptoms, causes, and
treatments, with information on getting help and
coping. Date: 2005 Autism Spectrum Disorders
(Pervasive Developmental Disorders).
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Autism and Pervasive
Developmental Disorder
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - Autism and Pervasive
Developmental Disorder-NOS (not otherwise
specified) are developmental disabilities that
share many of the same characteristics.
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Pervasive Developmental
Disorders
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - NICHCY developed this
Briefing Paper in response to the growing concern
about, and interest in, this disability. This
publication is designed to answer some of the
most commonly asked questions regarding PDD and
to provide concerned individuals with other
resources for information and support.
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Rett Syndrome Fact
Sheet by NINDS
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke (NINDS) - What is Rett syndrome? Rett
syndrome is a childhood neurodevelopmental
disorder characterized by ....
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NINDS Asperger
Syndrome Information Page
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke (NINDS) - What is Asperger Syndrome?
Asperger syndrome (AS), one of the autistic
spectrum disorders, is a pervasive developmental
disorder characterized by ....
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Autism and
Communication
National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders (NIDCD)- The brain
disorder autism begins in early childhood and
persists throughout adulthood affecting three
crucial areas of development: verbal and
nonverbal communication, social interaction, and
creative or imaginative play.
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Rett Syndrome
National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) - In October 1999, scientists
sponsored by the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development made a remarkable
announcement - they discovered that a change in
the sequence of a single gene can cause Rett
syndrome.
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Autism Spectrum
Disorders Research at the National Institute of
Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) -
An overview that summarizes research into the
causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of
autism spectrum disorders.
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Teaching Students with
Autism.
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest provides an overview of
considerations for teaching students with autism.
Students with autism are, first and foremost,
students. They have many more similarities to
other students than they do differences.
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Educating
Students with Disabilities: Resources Addressing
More Than One Disability
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This bibliography is one
of several available from NICHCY on the subject
of educating students with disabilities.
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Travel Training
for Youth with Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This Transition Summary
focuses upon just that -- training people with
disabilities to use public transportation safely
and independently. This Transition Summary was
written for people who live in communities which
have some form of public transportation.
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Understanding Sensory
Integration
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest defines sensory
integration and sensory integration dysfunction
(DSI). It outlines evaluation of DSI, treatment
approaches and implications for parents and
teachers, including compensatory strategies for
minimizing the impact of DSI on a child's
life.
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EMIS
Glossary
Ohio Department of Education - A glossary of the
terms used in EMIS reports. life.
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Five Homework Strategies
for Teaching Students with Disabilities
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest describes five strategies
that researchers have identified to improve
homework results for students with disabilities.
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Promoting the
Self-Determination of Students with Severe
Disabilities
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest addresses several issues
raised by this list of barriers to promoting the
self-determination of students with severe
disabilities.
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Planning
Student-Directed Transitions to Adult
Life
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - How can educators facilitate these
new requirements- especially those that promote
and strengthen the involvement of students with
disabilities in decisions regarding their own
futures?
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Whose
IDEA Is This? A Resource Guide for Parents -
September 2005
In November 2004, the United States Congress
passed the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEIA-2004).
This new version of the federal law governing
special education became effective July 1, 2005.
In Ohio, Whose IDEA Is This? A Resource Guide for
Parents serves as the Procedural Safeguards
Notice in accordance with 34 CFR 300.504.
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Final Rules and
Regulations - IDEA 2004 - August 14, 2006
SUMMARY: The Secretary issues final regulations
governing the Assistance to States for Education
of Children with Disabilities Program and the
Preschool Grants for Children with Disabilities
Program. These regulations are needed to
implement changes made to the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act, as amended by the
Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act of 2004 (Act or IDEA). DATES:
These regulations take effect on October 13,
2006.
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The Individual Family
Service Plan (IFSP)
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - An Individualized Family Service Plan
(IFSP) documents and guides the early
intervention process for children with
disabilities and their families.
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IDEA's Definition of Disabilities
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - As defined by IDEA, the term
"child with a disability" means a
child: ....
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Developing Your
Child’s IEP
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - We’ve packed a lot
of information into this guide. If you’ve
never helped to create an IEP before, this
information may seem strange and overwhelming. It
helps to think of the IEP both as a process and
as a document to be written. Understand the
process one step at a time—it has many
parts.
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Involving
Parents in the IEP Process
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest examines the special
roles of parents of children with disabilities in
planning for the education of their children and
discusses how educators can work effectively with
parents to create meaningful individualized
education programs (IEPs).
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Creating Useful
Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - The IEP is a quasi-contractual
agreement to guide, orchestrate, and document
specially designed instruction for each student
with a disability based on his or her unique
academic, social, and behavioral needs.
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Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of Children
with Disabilities: Update 1999
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - Public Law 105-17, the individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments
of 1997, enhances the rights of children with
disabilities and their parents. It builds on the
rights provided under Public Law 94-142, the
Education for All Handicapped Children Act, of
1975. A fundamental provision of these laws is
the right of parents to participate in the
educational decision-making process.
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The Least
Restrictive Environment Mandate: How Has It Been
Defined by the Courts?
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted
Education - This digest examines how the concepts
of least restrictive environment, mainstreaming,
and inclusion have been developed by Congress and
the courts. Because Congress has elected not to
define the concept of LRE, under our system of
government it is left to the courts to shape a
definition.
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Questions and Answers
about IDEA
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This News Digest has been
developed to answer many of the questions and
concerns that families and professionals have
when they contact NICHCY. This document looks
specifically at the mandates and requirements of
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Amendments of 1997 (IDEA), the federal law that
supports special education and related services
programming for children and youth with
disabilities.
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Assistive
Technology
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - Raising a child with a
disability presents families and professionals
with many challenges. Today, one of the major
challenges facing people who care for and about
children and youth with disabilities is
technology -- what to get, where to get it, how
to use it, how to pay for it, how to evaluate its
effectiveness, and where to put it.
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A Student's
Guide to the IEP
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - Being a part of the team
that writes your IEP is an exciting, important
thing to do. It's your education be in on
planning it!
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Helping Students
Develop Their IEPs
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This guide is written for
parents and teachers who would like to help
students with disabilities become involved in
developing their own Individualized Education
Programs (IEPs).
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A
Student's Guide to Jobs
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This Student's Guide
booklet is especially for students with
significant disabilities such as mental
retardation and autism.
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Helping Students with
Cognitive Disabilities Find and Keep a
Job
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This Technical Assistance
Guide is written for those involved in helping
students with cognitive disabilities such as
mental retardation or autism find and keep a job.
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Options After
High School For Youth With Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This TRANSITION SUMMARY
is a joint publication of NICHCY and the HEATH
Resource Center. By producing a joint
publication, we hope to reach a wide audience of
individuals with disabilities who are making the
transition to life after high school
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Children with
Disabilities: Understanding Sibling
Issues
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - The relationship between
brothers and sisters in families that have a
child with a disability or chronic illness is
examined in this issue of NEWS DIGEST.
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Parenting a Child with
Special Needs
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - When parents learn that
their child has a disability or a chronic
illness, they begin a journey that takes them
into a life that is often filled with strong
emotion, difficult choices, interactions with
many different professionals and specialists, and
an ongoing need for information and services.
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Accessing
Programs for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
with Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - We have written this
Parent's Guide to help families learn how to
get help for their young children with special
needs (ages birth through 5 years).
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Communicating with
Your Child's School Through Letter
Writing
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This Parent's Guide
will help you in writing to the professionals
involved in your child's special education.
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Planning a Move: Mapping
Your Strategy
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - Moving to a new location
disrupts your life! For any family this can be a
time of chaos. There is the adventure of newness
but also a maddening confusion. Everything and
everyone is certainly somewhere, but where?
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Respite Care: A Gift of
Time
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This Briefing Paper is
adapted from a 1989 NICHCY publication called
"Respite Care: A Gift of Time." It
discusses the emergence and diversity of respite
care services, with particular emphasis on the
benefits of respite care for families of children
with disabilities or special health care needs.
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Respite Care for
Children with Autism
ARCH National Resource Center for Respite and
Crisis Care Services - Respite care for families
of children with autism provides assistance
through the provision of emergency and planned
care as well as access to other family support
services.
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Sexuality Education For
Children And Youth With Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - This NEWS DIGEST has been
developed to address the concerns that parents
and professionals face in informing and guiding
children and youth adults with disabilities in
their social-sexual development and in preparing
them to make healthy, responsible decisions about
adult relationships.
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National Toll-free
Numbers
National Dissemination Center for Children with
Disabilities (NICHCY) - The following is a
selected list of toll-free numbers for national
organizations concerned with disability and
children’s issues.
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reserved.
Autism Society of Greater Cleveland
P.O. Box 41066, Brecksville, Ohio 44141 (216)
556-4937
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Important Downloads
Autism Spectrum Disorders (PDD) with addendum through
January 2007.
A detailed booklet that describes symptoms, causes,
and treatments, with information on getting help and
coping.
Final Rules and Regulations - IDEA 2004 - August 14,
2006
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