A-Z Topics...Plus

Alphabetical by Title

NICHCY is pleased to provide A-Z Topics, a series of Web resource pages on topics of high interest and concern. They're intended to connect you quickly with a range of resources, materials, and guidance on these topics.

For your convenience, the index below also includes links to Web resource pages developed for our eNews service (called eNews Foundations) and from our Publications pages. This allows you to identify our online topics and resources without having to travel to every corner of our site.

If you don't see information on the topic you're looking for, try our Search for Info page (where you can search for organizations, conferences, and materials from other information centers), give us a call (1.800.695.0285), or email us (nichcy@aed.org). We have lots more info we can share with you.

A

• Accessibility
• Accommodations in employment
• Accommodations in testing
• ADA
• Alternate assessment
• Asperger syndrome
• Assessment: Statewide / districtwide
• Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)
• Autism

B

• Behavioral assessments
• Behavior at home
• Behavior at school
• Behavior expertise
• Behavior plans
• Behavior supports
• Blindness / Visual Impairments
• Brain-based research
• Bullying

C

• Camps
• Cerebral palsy
• Childhood disintegrative disorder
• Classroom management
• Curriculum

D

• Deafness/Hearing impairments
• Directories of OSEP Discretionary Grants
• Disability awareness
• Disability community
• Disability publishers
• Discipline at home
• Discipline policies in IDEA
• Down syndrome

E

• Early intervention
• Educating students with disabilities
• Education laws
• Employment
• Emotional disorders
• Epilepsy
• Español: Discapacidades específicas
• Español: Temas de discapacidad
• Evaluating for the presence of disability
• Evidence for Education

H

• Health care
• Hearing impairments / Deafness

I

• IDEA Amendments of 1997
• IDEA Amendments of 2004
• Including Students with Disabilities in State & District Assessments
• Independent living
• Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)
• Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
• Info Galore
• Information: Can I trust it?

J

• Job accommodations

L

• Laws
• Learning disabilities
• Literacy

M

• Making Sense of Statistics in Research
• Medical resources
• Mental health resources
• Mental retardation
• Multiple disabilities

N

• National and State Disability Groups
• No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

O

• OSEP Discretionary Grants Directories
• OSEP Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities

P

• Paraprofessionals
• Parent centers
• PDDNOS
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
• Positive behavior supports
• Publishers, Disability

R

• Rare syndromes and disorders
• Reading
• Related services



• Research Basics:
• Research 101 (A Primer on Quality Research)
• Research 102: Adding Up The Evidence (Combining the Findings of Multiple Studies)
• 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?
• Research on Specific Disabilities (AD/HD, autism, Down syndrome, LD)
• Upcoming Research Conferences
• Heard about NICHCY's Research Panel?



• Response to Intervention (RTI)
• Rett syndrome

S

• Section 504
• Severe / multiple disabilities
• Sex education
• Spanish materials on Disability Conditions:
  English version / Spanish version
• Spanish materials on Disability Topics:
  English version / Spanish version
• Special education
• Speech / language impairments
• Spina bifida
• Staff development
• Statistics: Disability
• Statistics: Research
• Strategy Instruction (Evidence for Education)

T

• Technical assistance network
• Testing: Accommodations
• Testing: Large-scale
• Tool Kit from OSEP on Teaching and Assessing Students with Disabilities


Transition Suite:
• Transition 101
• Transition for Parents
• Transition for Students
• Transition for Professionals
• Transition for Specific Disabilities



• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

U

• Universal design

V

• Visual impairments / blindness

W

• Weighing information for its worth

Z

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