eNews Foundations

Welcome to the eNews Foundations pages, which are intended as a starting point for all our visitors signing up for NICHCY's eNews service. Now that you've filled out your user profile, we've directed you here. These pages are meant to lay a foundation in your area(s) of interest. Pick whatever topics below correspond to your interests and explore the existing resources we've noted.

(Don't know what we're talking about? Visit our eNews sign-up page, and read all about this service, which links you with information according to your interests and concerns.)

Why are we beginning eNews this way? Because we have no way of knowing where you are on the information trail---you may already know and use most of the resources we are going to tell you about here, or you may not. To establish a common knowledge base among our users, we've designed these Foundations pages to introduce basic resources in various interest areas. They serve as an introduction to the area, so that our future eNews messages are built atop a knowledge base of these central resources.

• Disability Info
• Helpful Groups
• Administration (Testing, Minorities, Staff Training)
• Teacher Resources
• Transition & Adulthood

• Disability Info
  
  
  
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
  
  
  
  • Autism
  
  
  
  • Cerebral Palsy
  
  
  
  • Deafness/Hearing Impairment
  
  
  
  • Developmental Delay
  
  
  
  • Emotional Disorders
  
  
  
  • Epilepsy/Seizure Disorder
  
  
  
  • Head/Brain Injury
  
  
  
  • Learning Disability
  
  
  
  • Medical/Health Related
  
  
  
  • Mental Retardation
  
  
  
  • Physical Disability
  
  
  
  • Rare Syndromes and Disorders
  
  
  
  • Severe/Multiple Disabilities
  
  
  
  • Speech/Language Impairment
  
  
  
  • Visual Impairment/Blindness
  
  
  
• Helpful Groups
  
  
  • Disability groups, agencies, & organizations (nationally and in your state)
  
  
  
  • Parenting/family life/parent groups
  
  
  
  • Parent/professional collaboration
  
  
  
  • Important disability and education laws
  
  
  
  • Resources within the medical/healthcare community
  
  
  
  • Resources within the mental health community
  
  
  
• Administration: Testing, Minorities, Staff Training
  
  
  • Including students with disabilities in state or district tests / Alternate assessment
  
  
  
  • Spanish language resources on disability conditions
  
  
  
  • Spanish language resources on disability topics
  
  
  
  • Serving minority children with disabilities and their families
  
  
  
  • Effective practices and resources in training staff
  
  
  
  • Effective practices for delivering services to children with disabilities
  , at these levels:
  
  
  • Early intervention (birth through two)
  
  
  
  • Preschool / elementary school
  
  
  
  • Middle / high school
  
  
  
  • Related services
  
  
  
  • Assistive technology
  
  
  
  • Child care / day care
  
  
  
  • After school programs
  
  
  
  • Transition to adult life
  
  
  

• Teacher Resources



• Effective teaching practices



• Including children with disabilities in the general education classroom and other settings



• Addressing behavior problems in the classroom



• Paraprofessionals in the classroom



• Online teacher communities, resources, and training opportunities



• Teaching a specific subject to a child with a disability

• Transition & Adulthood
  
  
  • Independent living and self-determination
  
  
  
  • Employment 101 (Job skills / work experience)
  
  
  
  • Recreation / leisure / extracurricular activities
  
  
  
  • Important disability and education laws
  
  
  

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