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Focusing on school issues for Adolescents
with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Behavioral Disorders

Information gathered and shared by Veteran Educator, Kay Jones, B.A., M.S.

Weblinks: Resources on the Internet

Accommodations, Modifications, and Alternate Assessments: How They Affect Instruction and Assessment

Accommodations, Strategies, and Modifications

Acronyms in Special Education (FAPE)

Acronyms of Agencies in Special Education

ADDvance, Answers to Your Questions about ADD/ADHD

ADHD: PowerPoint Presentation by Harvery C. Parker, PhD

ADHD Problems and Help

Advocates for Justice and Education, Inc.

Advocating for Children with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System, Smith, Esposito, Gregg
This monograph describes some barriers that hinder the ability of youth with cognitive and other disabilities to receive appropriate interventions that might help them avoid contact with the justice system or teach them new patterns of behavior after they have been incarcerated. (.pdf)

A Kid Just Like Me, Bruce Roseman, M.D.

All Kinds of Minds (Dr. Mel Levine)

AlphaSmart (writing tool/word processor)

ASK: Advocates for Special Kids

Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger Syndrome by Rosalyn Lord

Association for Positive Behavior Support

ATTENTION!, CHADD

Attention Deficit Disorder Association

Attention Deficit Disorder Warehouse

Attitude Magazine

Autism/Asperger's Digest Magazine

Beach Center on Disability

Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale BERS: A Strength-based Approach to Assessment

Behavioral Disorders, CCBD/CEC

Beyond Behavior, CCBD/CEC

Bluehorn: Exploring the Abundance of the Mind

Bridges4Kids

Building Blocks for Youth

Bullying in Schools: What Can I Do If My Child Is Being Harassed or Bullied?
by Jackie D. Igafo-Te'o, Bridges4Kids

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)

Center for the Study of Autism: Asperger's Syndrome

Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice

Character Counts!

Children, Teens, and Resiliency (AAP)

Connect for Kids

Cool Books for Tough Guys

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)

Council for Children with Behavior Disorders (CCBD)

Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)

Discipline Associates

Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Site

Education-A-Must Special Education Resources

Explore Learning: Experience Math & Science with Gizmos

Fair Test: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing

Family & Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)

Famous People with Disabilities

FAPE: Juvenile Justice

50 Best Movies about High School

Focus on Learning, Strategies designed to help students with ADHD can benefit every student.

Homework Help by Dr. Mel Levine

IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IDEA Reauthorization: Our Children Left Behind

IEP Online

InsideOut Writers Program

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, pro-ed

Just ASK, Inc.

Just Kidding Cartoons

Kids Count 2006!

LD Online

Learning Disabilities: Glossary of Acronyms

Learning Toolbox, JMU

National Center for Learning Disabilties provides excellent resources on the IEP process and accommodations

National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ)

National Juvenile Detention Association (NJDA)

National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities (NICHY)

National Resource Center on ADHD: help4adhd.org

National Youth Network: Glossary

No Child Left Behind

Online Classes: A Choice for Your Middle School or High School Students? ~ Kay Johnson, Linda Broatch 8/22/07

OSERS / OSEP

Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)

Parent Advocates

Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC,VA)

Parent Primer on Special Education Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Definitions

Parent Toolkit: All Kinds of Minds, Dr. Mel Levine

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS)

Preventing School Failure, Heldref Publications

Raising Small Souls: Animal Story

Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic

Reed Martin, J.D., Special Education Attorney

S-BIP, Student Behavioral Intervention Planner

Self-Advocacy: A Valuable Skill for Your Teenager

Sensory Oversight: This article gives information about Sensory Integration Disorder, which might explain why some kids are clumsy, hyper, or misbehaving.

Special Ed Advocacy: Nine Rules of Thumb

Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities

Success at School from ADDitude

Successful People with LD or AD/HD by SchwabLearning.org
I used to give such lists to my students every now and then just to encourage them and remind them to focus on their strengths. What do you do well? I make people laugh. Another Whoopi, Jay Leno, or Robin Williams on his way to stardom!

Susan Ohanian (Education Advocate)

Teachers Pay Teachers (an open marketplace for original educational materials)

Teaching Exceptional Children

Teaching Tolerance

Ten Tips for a Successful School Year, by Pat Howey, Advocate

The Master Teacher

The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources

tourette syndrome association, inc.

Tourette Syndrome "Plus"

US Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

Wright's Law: From Emotions to Advocacy

Wrightslaw: Functional Behavior Assessments & Positive Interventions: What Parents Need to Know

Wrightslaw: Functional Behavior Assessments: What? Why? When? Where? Who?
by Stephen Starin, PhD

Wrightslaw: Special Education Advocacy

Yellow Pages for Kids with Disabilities (Wrightslaw)

You Can Handle Them All (disciplinehelp)