Special Education
Scroll down for the following sites: Visual Impairments, Hearing Impairments, Giftedness, Service Learning, Transition, Technology, Parent Issues, Legal Issues, and Teacher Issues
Vision Impairments
The New York Institute for Special Education
Visual Impairment Information - American Foundation for the Blind
Hearing Impairments
College and Career Programs for Deaf Students
Council on Education of the Deaf
Deaf Encyclopedic Resources in English
DeafNation (site not available)
Deafness Hard of Hearing--Home Page
DeafWeb, State of Washington's Home Page
National Association of the Deaf
National Information Center on Deafness, Gallaudet University
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
"Deaf Students are Free Spirits on Internet" Joyce Kasman Valenza
Giftedness
Kenny Anthony's Gifted and Talented and General Educational Resources (site not available)
Pitsco's Launch to Gifted and Talented Resources (site not available)
Service Learning
Transition
National Transition Alliance (NTA) Home Page
Resouces for VE Teachers (site not available)
Technology
"Technology propelling Intermediate Units into an expanded role" Joyce Kasman Valenza
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education through Technology, Media and Materials
Pennsylvania Education Network Link2Learn
South Central (California) Regional Technology in Education Consortium
Working the Web for Educators "Theory and Practice on Integrating the Web for Learning"
www4teachers
Parent Issues
Resources for Parents (add, adoption, special education)
NICHCY: Parenting a Child with Disabilities
Our Kids (site not available)
Parents Helping Parents Website (site not available)
Rights and Responsibilities of Parents of a Child with Disabilities
Legal Issues
US Code (current plublic laws enacted by Congress)
US House of Representatives Internet Law Library: Handicapped Individuals and the Law
EDLAW (S. James Rosenfeld)
Legal Rights for Children with Learning Disabilities
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (this may require access through PSU...this is one of the best resources for legal documents)
Federal Court Locator (District and Appeal Courts)
Teacher Issues
NOVA Online (information re: PBS' NOVA)
Special Education Teachers Helping Teachers
Blue Web'n Site ( not available at this time - activities and lessons for students in grades k-12)
Education Week's Teacher Magazine
Special Education: Educational Alternatives, Learning Centers and more.
(search engine for educators) Ask Jeeves
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