Concord Special Education Parent Advisory Committee

Disability Links

Page Index: ADD/ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, Autism, Aspergers, Attachment Disorder /  Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), Behavior & Social, Bi-Polar, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Central Auditory Processing Deficit or Dysfunction (CAPD), Depression / Suicude, Development Delayed, Dyslexia, Dysparaxia / Apraxia, Diabetes, Down's Syndrome, Epilepsy, Executive Functioning Disorder, Learning Disabilities (LD), Gifted, Mental Health, Mental Retardation (MR), NonVerbal Learning Disorder (NLD / NVLD), Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Reading, Sensory Integration (SI), Tourette Syndrome (TS), Organizations/Associations.
Disability Links
ADD/ADHD

Attention Deficit Disorder - ADD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder- ADHD
American Academy of Pediatrics: Clinical Practice Guideline:
         Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Child With
         Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
Attention Deficit Disorder Association 
Help for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
ADHD information tools, support
LD In Depth: ADHD - over 40 articles
LD In Depth: ADHD - Building Academic Success
National Resource Center on AD/HD
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)

Anxiety Disorders Education Program on the NIMH

The International Association of Anxiety Management

Autism

Autism Center
Autism Research Institute
Center for the Study of Autism Organization (.org)

Center for the Study of Autism (.com)

Cure Autism Now (CAN)

Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT)
Ladders-Learning & Developmental Disabilities Evaluation &
    Rehab Services

What is Autism?
Parents of Autistic Children (POAC)

Aspergers

Aspergers Syndrome
The Asperger's Association of New England
Online Aspergers Syndrome Information and Support (OASIS)

Attachment Disorder or  Reactive Attachment Disorder - RAD new tag
(See PTSD)
Attachment Disorder
The Attachment Institute of New England
Attachment and Treament Network (used to be called The Attachment Disorder Network)
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) Kid Organization
Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children

Behavior & Social

American Hyperlexia Association
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
LD On-line: Behavior and Social 
Preventing Antisocial Behavior

Bipolar

Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury - TBI

Central Auditory Processing Deficit or Dysfunction - CAPD

CAPD Parents' Page
Remediation Techniques for CAPD
Auditory Processing Disorder in Children
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Depression / Suicude
(See Bi-Polar links, Mental Health links)

Families for Depression Awareness
Have Depression?
Cope, Care, Deal-A mental health site for teens
Suicide:

Suicide Prevention

Development Delayed

Developmental Delay Resources Home Page
Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council (MDDC)
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD) 

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental & Learning Disorders (ICDL)
Development Disabilities Mental Retardation, Center for Disease Control & Preventation

Dyslexia

 

Dyslexia: The Gift. Information and Resources for Dyslexia
International Dyslexia Association
The Advantages of Being Dyslexic and ADD
Bright Solutions for Dyslexia
ERIC: Resources related to Dyslexia

Dysparaxia / Apraxia

Diabetes


Down's Syndrome

Epilepsy

Executive Functioning Disorder

Executive Functioning -- What Is It and How Does It Affect Learning?
National Academy of Neuropsychology
Overview of Executive Function
The Realization and Utilization of Organization
What Are Executive Functions and Self-Regulation and What Do They Have to Do With Language Learning Disorders?, by Dr. Bonnie Singer and Anthony S. Bashir
Executive Function fact sheet, by National Center of Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
The development of executive function across the life span
Executive Functions in Parents With ADHD
Learning
Disabilities - LD
LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Resources has 100's of expert-reviewed articles and resources
Whta is a Learning Disability?
Learning Disabilities Association of America
SchwabLearning.org - Tool to Plan and Progress
Welcome to Roads to Learning
LD Basics
LD & Gifted:
The Council for Exceptional Children
Growing up with Molly (I was not one of those parents who clamored to get their kid into The Tag (Talented and Gifted) Program. I just wanted her to learn and ...)

Gifted

Articles:
LD Online: Gifted and LD

LD OnLine: Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise?

Mental Health

(See Depression links)

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
The Center for Mental Health Services' Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN )

Mental Retardation - MR American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR), has a new name:
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (aaidd)
(also refer to Developmental Disabilities above)

NonVerbal

Learning Disorder - NLD / NVLD


Nonverbal Learning Disorders Association
NLD on the Web
Nonverbal Learning Disorder links (NLDline)

Pervasive

Developmental

Disorders - PDD

 
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD new tag
(See Attachment Disorder)
PTSD Symptoms in Infants/Toddlers
What is PTSD by The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
PTSD in Children and Adolescents
PTSD in Internationally Adopted Children by Dr. Boris Gindis

Reading

National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science, by Louisa Cook Moats PDF file 
SEDL - RCI: Reading Assessment Database for Grades K-2
LD OnLine: Preventing Reading Failure, by J. Torgeson
Reading Recovery: The Claims Versus the Facts
Evidence Based Research on Reading Recovery PDF file

Sensory Integration - SI

Tourette Syndrome - TS

Tourette Syndrome Plus 
Tourette Syndrome Association 
Tourette-Syndrome.com

Organizations /  Associations

Collection of links

Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
All Kinds of Minds
Special Ed Watchdog Nation (SEWN)

The links originally list on this web page were from Disabilities Awareness web page (August/1999).

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One of our original webpages, created August, 1999, by Melody Orfei
Webpage last modified on September 11, 2007 - V16 by Melody Orfei
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