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National Institute of Mental Health
This site explains what ADHD is, the symptoms, etc. -
Teaching Children with ADHD
This site gives some ideas and tips for teaching children with ADHD. -
ADHD Symptoms and Teaching Strategies
This site explains ADHD and gives teaching strategy tips.
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Assistive Technology
This site allows you to look at different types of assistive technology. You can also order from this site. -
Microsoft
This site tells you what assistive technology is and what type of products there are. -
Family Guide to Assistive Technology
This site helps families learn how to use assistive technology and it's importance.
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National Autism Association
This is the site for the National Autism Association. They provide information and support for families living with autism. -
Autism Research Institute
This site tells about different research on autism, information for parents of a child with autism, etc. -
Teaching Tips
This site gives several teaching tips for working with a child with autism
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CDC
This site answers several questions about vision impairment. -
Blindness
This site has a wide variety of information and research about blindness. -
Explaining Blindess and Visual Impairment to Children
This page is all about explaining blindness and visual impairment to children.
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National Association for the Deaf
This group advocates for the deaf. -
Deaf Culture
This site explains what deaf culture is and more. -
Teaching Deaf or Hearing Impaired Children
This site gives tips for teaching deaf or hearing impaired children.
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What is Early Intervention?
Definition and background information on Early Intervention. -
Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia
Information on Virginia's Early Intervention services. -
Early Childhood Special Education
Early childhood special education in Virginia.
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Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
This is a good site for parents that have a child with an emotional or bechavior disorder. -
Diagnosis and Teaching Tips
This site tells you what emotional disturbance is and give teaching tips. -
Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance
This talks about the scale for assessing emotional disturbance.
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Articles
This site has many articles about a wide range of topics concerning gifted and talented children. -
National Association for Gifted Children
This group addresses the needs of gifted children. -
Gifted Support
This group is an online group that supports gifted children and their families.
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National Center for Learning Disabilities
This has a wide variety of sources about learning disabilities. -
Information
This explains what learning disabilities are. -
Teaching Tips
This site has several teaching tips and articles about learning disabilites.
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Mental Retardation
Background information and statistics about mental retardation, a publication of National Dissemination Center for Children with -
Mental Retardation
Information about mental retardation from the CDC. There are several links off of this page that give more information. -
Children's Explanation
This is a good site that helps explain to children what mental retardation is.
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Activities
This site gives several ideas for activities to do with children that are severe and profound MR. -
Overview
This site gives an overview of what mental retardation is, causes, and the differences in severities. -
Causes
This site has a good list of causes for severe and profound mental retardation.
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Mighty Book
Online books, songs, puzzles, games, etc. -
Emotional Disturbance Info
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About.com
This site helps explain why gifted students may act certain ways and how to help them adjust to being gifted. This site applys t -
Kid Source Online
This site has a very interesting list of the strengths and possible problems of gifted students. Applies to all ages. It can b -
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted
The best part about this site is that it has articles and resources that are very useful. The site covers all ages and can be us -
Center for Talent Development
This page contains an interview with Maureen Neihart about the social and emotional needs of gifted students. This is very inter -
Education Oasis
This page contains a very interesting article written by Annemarie Roeper. It is about emotional needs of gifted students. This -
Prufrock Press Inc.- Practical advice for guiding gifted children
This page gives good advice for teachers of gifted children. This applies to children of all ages. The site lists key concepts,
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Edweek.org- Unwrapping the Gifted
This is an interesting site for teachers. The site contains blogs from different teachers that discuss teaching the gifted. It i -
Duke University- Talent Identification Program
This page talks about AP and IB courses that are available for gifted students. This is for highschool age students. This page -
Educational Options for Highly Gifted Children
This page talks about the options of public, private, and home schools. Very useful for parents. Applies to children of all ag -
Teachersfirst.com- Working with gifted and talented students
This site gives strategies for teaching the gifted. It also has ways to identify the gifted. It is a good resource for teachers
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LD Online- Gifted and LD
This is an interesting site about twice exceptional students. This contains articles, recommended books, links, etc. For paren -
NAGC- Student Identification Standards Introduction
This site has the 5 guiding principles of student identification. This is good for parents and teachers. There are many other r -
MISD- Gifted Children
This is a very good site for parents and teachers. It covers identification of gifted students very well. This applies to studen -
How do I know if my child is gifted?
This site is a very good resource for parents. There is information for as young as toddlers. This site compares Bright vs. Gift -
Brain Connection
This site talks about how gifted students are different from others. This is good for teachers and parents. It also talks about -
Education.com- Gifted Children
This site has a wonderful overview of giftedness. Several topics concerning giftedness are covered within this site. This is a r
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Center for Educational Partnerships- University of California
This is a site that is about a neat summer gifted program. This is for students grades 5-8. This is a good source for parents lo -
American MENSA
This is a group for gifted children. There are resources for parents and teachers. This applies to children under the age of 18.
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Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students
This site covers the many ways you can accomodate a gifted student. The format is broken down into several sections, making it e -
Review of Instructional Strategies for Gifted Students
This is an interesting review of different instructional strategies for gifted students. A very good source for teachers. This a -
Using Learning-Strategies Instruction With Students Who Are Gifted and Learning Disabled
This site gives learning strategies for twice-exceptional students. It also talks about the implementation of these strategies. -
Gifted/ADD? Or Gifted/Learning Disabled?
This is a very interesting site that gives instructional strategies for twice-exceptional students. The site also talks about th -
A 10-Step Inclusional Model: Giftedness
This is a great resource for teachers. This page gives steps for the inclusion of gifted students. There are links that give res -
Resources for Teaching
This site gives teachers lesson plan ideas for gifted students. This is very creative and helpful for teachers that have not had -
Teaching Mathematics to Gifted Students in a Mixed-Ability Classroom
This is an interesting article about teaching mathematics. There are several suggestions of how to gear this toward gifted stude
