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Topics, Alphabetically 

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A

• Access to the general education curriculum
• Accommodations in employment
• Accommodations in assessment (resource page)
• Accommodations in assessment (an Evidence for Education publication)
• Acronyms in special education
• ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
• Adoptive/foster families (resources for)
• Adult services (for adults)
• Adult services (for students in transition)
• Age of majority
• Alternate assessment
• Annual goals statement in the IEP
• Appeals, disciplinary removals
• Assistive technology (resource for IEP teams)
• Assistive Technology Act
• Attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)
• Authority of school personnel in disciplinary situations
• Authority of school personnel in special circumstances (drugs, weapons, serious bodily injury)
• Authority of school personnel to report crimes
• Autism spectrum disorders

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B

• Basis of knowledge
• Behavioral assessments
• Behavior at home
• Behavior at school
• Behavior expertise
• Behavior plans
• Behavior supports
• Benchmarks/short-term objectives in the IEP
• Blindness / Visual Impairments
• Brain-based research
• Bullying

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C

• Camps
• Categories of disability in IDEA
• Cerebral palsy
• Child care providers (resources for)
• Communities of practice (CoPs)
• Curriculum

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D

• Deaf-blindness
• Deafness/Hearing impairment (fact sheet)
• Deafness/Hearing impairment (resource for IEP teams)
• Definitions in IDEA
• Definitions of disabilities mentioned in IDEA
• Developing your child's IEP
• Developmental delay
• Developmental milestones
• Diabetes
• Disability awareness
• Disability publishers
• Disciplinary removals, appeals
• Disciplinary removals, services during
• Discipline at home
• Discipline at school
• Discipline regulations in IDEA
• Discretionary grants database of OSEP
• Disproportionate representation (training module)
• Disproportionate representation (Indicator 9)
• Dispute resolution options in IDEA
• Down syndrome
• Drop-out rates (Indicator 2)
• Due process complaints
• Due process hearings
• Due process hearings, expedited

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E

• Early intervening services
• Early intervention (for babies and toddlers, birth to the 3rd birthday)
• Early intervention (for providers seeking technical assistance)
• Early intervention staff training
• Educating students with disabilities
• Education laws
• Employment
• Employers (resources for)
• Emotional disorders
• Epilepsy
• Español
• Evaluating for the presence of disability
• Evaluation procedures for determining specific learning disabilities
• Evidence for Education
• Excusing a member from an IEP meeting
• Expedited due process
• Extent of participation in regular educational environment (IEP component)

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F

• Foster/adoptive families (resources for)
• Free appropriate public education (FAPE)

G

• General education curriculum
• Graduation rates (Indicator 1)
• Guidance from the U.S. Department of Education

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H

• Health care
• Hearing impairments / Deafness (fact sheet)
• Hearing impairments / Deafness (resource for IEP teams)
• Heart conditions
• Hemophilia
• Highly qualified teacher requirements (HQT)

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I

• IDEA Amendments of 2004
• IDEA training curriculum (Building the Legacy)
• IEP contents (What's in a student's IEP?)
• IEP team (Who's a member?)
• IEP team meetings (What happens at an IEP meeting?)
• Independent living
• Indicators and SPPs
• Individualized Education Program (IEP)
• Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
• Information: Can I trust it?
• Intellectual disabilities

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J

• Job accommodations

L

• Laws
• Lead poisoning
• Learning disabilities
• Least restrictive environment (LRE)
• Least restrictive environment (LRE) for preschoolers (Indicator 6)
• Leukemia
• Limited English proficiency (a resource for IEP teams)

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M

• Making Sense of Statistics in Research
• Manifestation determination
• Math instruction for students with disabilities
• Mediation
• Medical resources
• Mental health resources
• Mental retardation
• Military families (resources for)
• Modifications and accommodations (for students)
• Modifications (for school personnel)
• Moving to a new location
• Multiple disabilities

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N

• Nephritis
• NICHCY flyers
• NICHCY online catalog
• NIMAS (accessible materials for those with print disabilities)
• No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

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O

• Other Health Impairments
• OSEP discretionary grants database
• OSEP Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities

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P

• Paraprofessionals
• Parent centers
• Parent consent
• Parental involvement (Indicator 8)
• Parent participation in early intervention
• Parent participation in school
• Parenting a child with special needs
• Participation in regular educational environment (IEP component)
• Participation in regular educational environment (Indicator 5)
• PDDNOS
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
• Placement
• Placement during appeal process
• Positive behavior supports
• Present levels statement in the IEP
• Preschoolers in general education settings (Indicator 6)
• Preschool special education
• Prior written notice
• Private school children (parentally-placed)
• Procedural safeguards in IDEA
• Procedural safeguards notice
• Program modifications for school personnel
• Publishers, Disability

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R

• Rare syndromes and disorders
• Recruitment and retention of teachers
• Reevaluation
• Related services
• Reporting student progress (IEP component)
• Resolution period
• Response to intervention (RTI) | Overview
• Response to intervention (RTI) | IDEA requirements
• Rheumatic fever



• Research Basics:
  
  
• Research 101 (A Primer on Quality Research)
• Research 102: Adding Up The Evidence (Combining the Findings of Multiple Studies)
• Research terms
• Making Sense of Statistics in Research (Don't let them throw you.)
• Weighing Information for Its Worth (Is this research well done?)
• Learning and the Brain (What research is finding about our amazing brains.)


• Research in Special Education:
  
  
• Where to Start?
• What Works? Can We Say?
• Evidence for Education series
• Research-based Resources on Specific Disabilities

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S

• Section 504
• Severe / multiple disabilities
• Sexuality education for children and youth with disabilities
• Sickle cell anemia
• Social skills and academic achievement
• Services during disciplinary removals
• Short-term objectives in the IEP
• Spanish
• Special education, K-12
• Special education, 3-5 year olds
• Special factors to consider in IEP development
• Speech / language impairments
• Spina bifida
• Staff development in early intervention
• Staff development in K-12
• State complaint process
• State resource sheets (find services and agencies in your state)
• Statistics: Disability
• Statistics: Research
• "Stay-Put" under IDEA 2004
• Strategy instruction (Evidence for Education)
• Summer camps
• Supplementary aids and services
• Suspension and expulsion (Indicator 4)

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T

• Teacher recruitment and retention
• Technical assistance network
• Testing: Accommodations
• Tool Kit from OSEP on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities
• Tourette syndrome
• Transition goals in the IEP (Indicator 13)
• Transition goals in the IEP (overview)
• Transition to preschool (overview)
• Transition to preschool (Indicator 12)

Transition Suite:

• Transition to Adulthood
• Transition "Starters" for Everyone
• Transition Goals in the IEP
• Students Get Involved!
• Adult Services: What Are They? Where Are They?
• Potential Consultants to the Transition Team
• Education/Training Connections
• Employment Connections
• Independent Living Connections



• Transportation (as a related service)
• Transportation (resources for transportation providers)
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

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U

• Universal design

V

• Visual impairments / blindness (fact sheet)
• Visual impairments / blindness (a resource for IEP teams)

W

• Weighing information for its worth

Y

• You are not alone

Z

• zzzzzzzzz....

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