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New in 2007!
New in 2006
And Don't Forget About...
Coming Soon

New in 2007!

IDEA 2004 Training Curriculum: Come and get 'em--PowerPoint slide shows, handouts for participants, authoritative discussion of IDEA's regulations and requirements. Several modules are now available for you to read, share, and use in training. Help yourself, at:
www.nichcy.org/training/contents.asp

The Power of Strategy Instruction: Strategy instruction is a powerful student-centered approach to teaching that is backed by years of quality research. Our first edition of Evidence for Education looks exclusively at the research foundations for strategy instruction and some of the most well-known approaches to teaching strategies. Download your copy at:
http://research.nichcy.org/strategy_instruction1.asp
OSEP's Discretionary Grants in FY 2006: Every year the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), at the U.S. Department of Education, funds hundreds of projects to increase the field's knowledge base and improve outcomes for children with disabilities. And every year these projects are profiled in separate directories, which NICHCY produces for OSEP. We've put this year's directories (Fiscal Year 2006) online in PDF. Have a look!
News You Can Use! Lots of interesting new resources for you.

New in 2006

Follow the yellow brick road to the official and final regulations for our nation's special education law, the IDEA 2004, published August 14, 2006.
Visit our new Transition Suite, which is comprised of five separate collections of resources. Start with Transition 101, and then pick your poison: Transition for Parents, Transition for Students, Transition for Professionals, and Transition for Students with Specific Disabilities.
We are extremely pleased to unveil NICHCY's Research Center, designed to connect you with all manner of information and resources related to 25 years of research into what works with children who have disabilities. Dive in, find out, let us know what you think. The Research Center will be growing all the time, so also sign up to find out when new research analyses are added.
2006 edition of Summer Camps, to help you plan ahead.

News You Can Use from all of 2006! The resources don't have to be hot off the press to still be useful and relevant, so go snooping and see what news here you can use.
NICHCY's fact sheet on Traumatic Brain Injury, with all the dust blown off for 2006!
The Roadmap to Research on NICHCY's Web Site will help you find your way to the research you're most interested in---it's not just under "R."

And Don't Forget About...

As part of our eNews service, we're pleased to offer a spectrum of new Foundations pages with absolute tons of connections to resources on these topics:
- AD/HD 101, including the short and sweet intros, the dive-in-deepers, the research, and Spanish materials
- Autism 101, to connect you quick with resources on the five disabilities on the autism spectrum
- Early Intervention, so important to the well-being and development of infants and toddlers with disabilities or developmental delays
- Employment 101, to help those interested learn all about the work development world for youth with disabilities
- National and State Disability Groups that can help you (or families you serve) to find needed resources and information
- Rare Syndromes and Disorders information, in both English and Spanish
- Resources in the Medical and Healthcare Community, to help you find info on health conditions AND the services associated with thoem
- Resources in the Mental Health Community, starting with crisis response and ending with mental health services in schools and Spanish materials
- Staff Development resources, for those of you heading up disability or education programs where staff training is important (that would be just about all of 'em!)
Available online, our latest student guide set -- Relish is for More Than Hot Dogs: A Guide to Making Your Own Sweet Success. Read the transcript of the audioprogram (available on CD or tape), the student booklet, and a guide for teachers and parents to help support children with disabilities in developing their own talents, dreams, desires, and...well, in a phrase....their own sweet success. The student booklet and technical assistance guide are each available in text and pdf versions.

NICHCY Connections...to Sexuality Education links you with resources in this most difficult and delicate of concerns.

Check out our redesigned Parent's Guide on accessing services for young children with disabilities, including its new title. What used to be called Accessing Programs for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities is now called Finding Help for Young Children with Disabilities (Birth-5).

NICHCY's eNews service is up and running and waiting for you to sign up! Come one, come all, and tell others to hop on board, too.

Lots and lots of new resources and Web connections in our A-Z topic pages! IDEA or NCLB? Autism Spectrum Disorders? Behavior? LD? State assessments? IEPs? You name it, we're trying to connect you. Take a look at our index of topics, and dive into the areas that interest you.

And if you're interested in research, take a look at our ever-growing Research pages.

Spanish information on Disability Conditions (written in English) and its completely Spanish version, Información en Español sobre Discapacidades Específicas

Spanish information on Disability Topics (written in English) and its completely Spanish version, Información en Español sobre Temas de Discapacidad

Coming Soon!

Training materials you can use on the IDEA 2004!

Alert!

Ten years ago, NICHCY's toll-free number became 1.800.695.0285. For three years our former number was maintained with a message announcing the new toll-free number. Unfortunately, the forwarding message then expired, and we were not permitted to continue it. The old number was picked up by an adult entertainment service that has a message which is offensive to many callers who were trying to reach us.

Please check to be sure that you have our current number (1.800.695.0285), and pass this message along to your associates. Also make sure that any information you share about NICHCY, including publications you pass along to others, includes our current number. If you publish a newsletter or journal, you may wish to let your readers know to update their records as well. We would be happy to provide you with camera-ready ads listing all of our current contact information.