• LD Online This website contains many useful resources on the subject of learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Some of the helpful links pertain to teaching strategies that have been proven effective when teaching learning disabled students. This website also contains a bulletin board page one might find helpful due to the nature of the ongoing conversation from parents and teachers dealing with leaning disabilities on a daily basis. Amy
• Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (PBIS) Funded by the US Department of Education, the PBIS consists of researchers and educators from the Universities of Oregon, Kentucky, Kansas, and South Florida.  The PBIS mission is to disseminate practical and theoretical information about behavior management from a behaviorist perspective.  The web site contains downloadable articles on behavior management and functional behavioral analysis, integrating positive behavioral approaches into the entire school and the classroom.  Also included are step-by-step approaches to implementing behavior management plans for individual students. Steve
• Oak Grove High School I chose this web site because it is run by both the faculty and the students.  It includes student work, including their school newsletter and student web pages, it also includes staff web pages and teacher resources. I also think it would be helpful for our class to contact Oak Grove to find out more information about what their program includes. Oak Grove High School is a school in Shoreview, MN that specializes on students who need E/BD (severe emotional and behavioral disorders) services. It is a small program that helps students succeed at a pace that is suitable to them academically as well as socially. Along with the regular academics, the students are taught coping strategies and problem solving skills.  I believe this school setting is excellent for students with these kinds of needs. At Oak Grove, the students learn the skills they need to function in the world around them without being "labeled" within a regular school.  Although we are trying to get away from labels and separate schools for students with special needs, I have found the information presented on the Oak Grove web page to be very useful. These students have a safe place to attend school where they are taught the skills they need above and beyond academics.  I am hoping to contact the school to find out more information about their program and the different strategies they use to help their students living with E/BD. Jess
• The Center for the Study of Autism   This website has a wide range of information. There is more than sixty different links that you are able to click on.  This informationwas researched by The Center for the Study of Autism (CSA). CSA also worked with the Autism Research Institute.  This website was developed toshare information about autism and other related topics. The various topics are interventions, issues, temple grandin, sibling center,exclusive interviews, subgroups and related disorders. The links that you are able to click on give information about that area. For example, if you would click on physical exercise and autism under interventions, it would tell you how long a child with autism should exercise and why it is important to do so.  Jennyf
• The Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health The CFSCMH was established in 1984 at Portland State University.  According to the web site, The Center is dedicated to promoting effective community-based, culturally competent, family-centered services for families and their children who are, or may be affected by mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.. All information in this site can be selected in either English or Spanish, plus computer-generated translations of the web pages are available in three additional languages. Links to the current educational research, both completed and in progress at Portland State University, are accessible.  Recent issues of Focal Point, a bulletin claimed to be read by 30,000 readers, are published on the web and available for downloading or by mail. Each bulletin has a specific theme. For example, the Spring, 2000’s bulletin’s theme was Early Identification Strategies and Interventions in Children’s Mental Health.  Also featured are links to organizations that provide information about specific disabilities and their support groups. Information on legislation, legal issues, and the rights and education of children with emotional and behavioral disorders are accessible.  Details concerning the annual Building on Family Strengths Conference are available through this site.  A Publications page, where selected books and information are searched according to your designated topic, is a feature of this site. Books may be ordered electronically, some at no cost or a nominal fee. A special feature called INTERACT reviews articles, web sites, resources, and books. Some contributions are from viewers of the web site rather than by the staff. Kathy
• Mental Help mentalhelp.net/disorders/sx73.htm  I found some information on Oppositional Defiant Disorder.  It listed some of the symptoms, Treatment, and Online Resources.  I found some of the symptoms to be very interesting as I compare it to a student I have in my class diagnosed with ODD and he does have almost every one of the symptoms. Some of the symptoms are:-often loses temper -ofen argues with adults -often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults requests or rules-often deliberately annoys people-often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior-is often touchy or easily annoyed by others -is often angry and resentful -is often spiteful or vindictive.  This website then continued to describe some treatments such as Psychotherapy, Medications, and Self-help.  I then continued to do more Online resources and found the JOEY support group. This was wonderful!  I got to talk with some people over the email about their children with ODD as well as ADD and ADHD and they were very impressed with a "teacher" caring and wanting to find out more information about this topic.Jodi
• Welcome to Behavior Disorders This website is a one-stop click away to information and resources on Behavior Disorders for both parents and teachers!  This site includes a complete classroom behavior control program, information and definitions on medications, behavior interventions, the IEP, and  the ITP that can be useful.  An impressive part of this website is the links  that are offered.  In the links there is a well-organized list of special education resources.  This is why I consider this site to be a one-stop visit on the information highway for educators and parents because all you have to do is  visit one website and everything is there for you!  This is a reputable site because it has an author who has had over ten years of experience working with children who have special needs. This site also received the Handi-Ramp Award for being a great service to the disabled community.  I highly recommend this site and hope that you find it as a valuable as I do! Erin
• AACAP This resource may be a useful tool for teachers who need additional resources when assisting families to understand the developmental, behavioral, emotional and mental disorders affecting their children.  The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) website provides information on current topics, lists other resource links to other organizations and publications, gives information on how to become a member of the AACAP and where regional organizations are located, provides information on research,  training, and legislation. Jan
• Special Educator’s Web Page The site is called Special Educator's Web Page by Kay Smith. I have chosen his site because it contains a ton of useful information plus 100's of related links.  This site contains lesson plans, articles, parental support ideas and programs, teaching strategies, behavior management tips etc.  It is really helpful because in the table of contents, located at the bottom of the page, is a large topic and inside each topic comes some of her own tips and then tons of related websites and sources to help you find what you need. Kris
• APAThis site is from the American Psychological Association.  It is a site full of information about normal vs. "needs interventions" behavior. The site is very well organized, it even has a site map choice. Starting with the site map, the user can go to ask direct questions regarding violent tendencies in themselves or others. There is aslo a violence prevention guide that would be helpful for educators, as well as parents. The colors on the home page, along with the banner of choices make this site very user-friendly.All of the information is free.  There are links about how to find a psychologist are even easy to use.  I especially liked the privacy statementincluded. this means that the user can be assured of total privacy, nomatter how much information they use from this site. Liz

Camp Nuhop This is a really neat web site about a summer camp for students with learning disabilities, adhd, add, and behavioral disabilities. The web site had wonderful detailed information. It was very user friendly. It stated that the staff ratio was 3:1.  It talked about how it involved building self-esteem, activities, and how parent activities were also included. It even had a meet the staff page that had pictures of each staff member and their educational backgrounds.  I did think this was interesting to explore. Linda

Plarent’s Let’s Unite for Kids The website I chose to critique was www.Pluk.org. Pluk was an organization which meant "Parents Let's Unite for Kids."This website was designed by parents to help parents with children with special needs. It has various links to current newsletters, publications, which shares various guides to help parents go through any process (this was my favorite. It discusses anything from IEP's, evaluations, parental rights, LRE, placements, labeling, related services and many other areas of useful information). The guides were very useful because they were loaded with factual researched infomation by the parents of Pluk.Pluk also had links to IDEA. I found this website to be full of information and I would recommend it to a parent to help them with their child who needs extra assistance. Tina

• Web Quest “Coming of Age” New York Humanities High School faculty developed this site for their students to explore themselves via the internet. http://www.mediaworkshop.org/humanities/
• Exceptional Children Companion Website Click on Inclusion Icon  http://www.prenhall.com/specialed/inclusion/inclusion-f.html Scroll down and click on: "Collaborative Teaching: Special Education  for Inclusive Classrooms" online book http://www.parrotpublishing.com/sped/index.shtml Click on the book title- COLLABORATIVE TEACHING: SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS  http://www.parrotpublishing.com/sped/inctoc.htm Click on each chapter to read book or to get hard copy
• National Parent Network on Disabilities NPND is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering parentsl  Located in Washington, DC, NPND provides its members with the most up-to-date information on the activities of all three branches of government that affect individuals with disabilities and their families. Anyone can visit and get the past week’s related information.
• Centre for Studies on Inclusive  Education This website is one of several that I found intersting. I went under inclusion and clicked on the website, http://inclusion.uwe.ac.uk/index.htm There is a lot of intersting facts about different organizations throughout the world supporting inclusion in schools (Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education.) These different groups speak about laws and support and speak on behalf of parents that have disabled children. One site I clicked on was Parents for Inclusion(Pi), located in the UK.  This orgainization has lists of different thigs about inclusion- what is is, who  supports it, and what their orgainization has done for children so far.  I think it is really neat to see orgainizations like these devote their time to reasearch and different studies to show the importance of inclusion in schools. Alicia Brandell

 

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