Recommended Internet Links

• ADD/ADHD (see also Learning Disabilities)
• Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorders/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)
• Behavior
• Financial Resources
• IEP Development
• Infant and Child Development Resources
• Infant/Preschool Mental Health
• Information on Disabilities
• Language
• Laws, Regulations, and Advocacy Information
• Learning Disabilities
• National Organizations and Resources
• Observation and Assessment
• Parenting Resources
• Preschool and Early Childhood Inclusion
• Quality Child Care
• Sensory Integration
• Social Emotional Development
• Transition

ADD/ADHD

• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorders/Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)

• All About Autism - contains information on understanding autism with quick links to publications and other resources. Part of the web site of Autism Society of America.

• Learn the Signs of Autism - This a list of potential "red flags" in children's development that may indicate autism. This is part of web site for "Autism Speaks."

Behavior

• Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics Online - This is a site for pediatricians, but has links and handouts for parents.

Financial Resources

• 2007 State-by-State Medicaid Fact Sheets - The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have updated their series of one-page, state specific fact sheets about the issue of children and Medicaid.

• Understanding Supplemental Security Income - The purpose of Understanding SSI is to inform beneficiaries, potential beneficiaries, advocates and others in interested agencies and organizations about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility requirements and processes. Of interest are the sections SSI Overview, General Information, Eligibility, SSI for Children, and Application Process and Rights.

IEP Development

• I.E.P. Pop-Up - This web site offers parents strategies for different obstacles they may face in their child's I.E.P. development.

Infant and Child Development Resources

• Brain Wonders - This site is designed to provide parents, caregivers and pediatric and family clinicians with meaningful information about early brain development and the relationships between babies and their parents and caregivers that support intellectual and social-emotional development.

• Checklist for Growing Children - This brief checklist from the New York State Department of Health's Early Intervention covers children birth to three. 

• Developmental Milestones by Age - provides important guidelines for tracking healthy development. Part of the web site for "Autism Speaks."

• Healthy Minds: Nurturing Your Child's Development - What do we really know about how a young child develops? What can parents do to best support their child’s healthy development and growing brain? Some of the answers are in this series of seven Healthy Minds handouts based on findings from a report from the National Academy of Sciences that examined the research on child and brain development to establish what is known about the early years and coincide with well-baby check-ups.

• How I Grow - A guidebook for parents that follows a child's development from birth to five. The guidebook provides developmental milestones, things to do with a child, safety tips, dental information, and an immunization checklist. A PDF version is also available. PDF files require the The Acrobat Reader Plug-In program. Now, a Spanish version is available online.

• How Children Develop - This web site focuses on listening, talking, reading, and writing milestones for children and how these milestones can relate to how children develop reading and talking skills.

• The Magic of Everyday Moments - This is a series of booklets that show parents how everyday activities with their children can be meaningful opportunities to connect with their children and help them develop.

• Pediatric Behavior and Development - This is a site for pediatricians, but has links and handouts for parents.

• The Power of Play: Learning Through Play from Birth to Three - This is a new booklet produced by Zero to Three for parents on how to play with their babies and how playing can help with development.  A PDF version of the booklet is available free on their web site.
  
• Ready To Learn - This web site provides multimedia clips of the video, "Ready to Learn," concerning the importance of communicating with babies.

• Web-Based Learning Units: Baby Play - This is a web-based lesson developed for child care providers on the value of playing with babies, how babies communicate, and how to play with babies at different ages.

• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families - "ZERO TO THREE is the nation's leading resource on the first three years of life whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers." See also Brain Wonders, a special page concerning how the brain develops and includes information and resources for parents, child care providers, and pedatricians and family clinicians.

Infant/Preschool Mental Health

Information on Disabilities

• Developmental Disabilities - This section of MedlinePlus provides a range of resources concerning developmental disabilities from general overviews to coping to law and policy to links to other pages within MedlinePlus that may be of interest or related.
• Disease InfoSearch - The Genetic Alliance provides this online database to help users find specific information about genetic conditions.

Language

Laws, Regulations, and Advocacy Information

• Inclusion - laws, best practices, examples of programs all having to do with inclusion of children with special needs

• New York State Education Department - has links to latest state regulations, policies, laws, events, etc., related to children 3 to 21

• Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Center - "The mission of PACER Center is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents."

• Reed Martin - "Educational resource where parents, advocates, attorneys and school personnel come for accurate up-to-date information & strategies to secure rights of children with disabilities!"

• Rominger Legal - "Where legal research begins on the web"

• Special Education Law- "The website where you get real answers to your questions with strategies to secure your child's rights!"

• Special Education Resources on the Internet - "Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accssible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education."

• U.S. Department of Justice Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Home Page

• U.S. Department of Education

• Wright's Law - "Parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about effective advocacy for children with disabilities."

Learning Disabilities

• Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

National Organizations

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)

• National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) - The web site of NDSS is the "most comprehensive information source on Down syndrome."

• U.S. Department of Education

• Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families - "ZERO TO THREE is the nation's leading resource on the first three years of life whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers." See also Brain Wonders, a special page concerning how the brain develops and includes information and resources for parents, child care providers, and pedatricians and family clinicians.

Observation and Assessment

• DOWN SYNDROME ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN (AGE 0-3 YEARS) - This clinical practice guideline on Down syndrome is intended to provide parents, professionals, and others with recommendations about “best practice” based on consensus opinion of the panel and scientific evidence about the efficacy of various assessment and intervention options for young children with Down syndrome.

Parenting Resources

• The Father's Network - "Good fathering flows from the realization that being a father is important, vital, demanding, rewarding, and risky."

• Link Up Parents - Researches parenting and family oriented sites. Link Up's sole purpose is to make searching easier and less time consuming.

• Common Sense Parenting - Features a common sense skill of the week, family spotlight, parenting questions and answers, and more.

Preschool and Early Childhood Inclusion

• Child Care Settings and the Americans with Disabilities Act - This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by The Arc concerning what the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is and how it relates to child care. The Acrobat Reader Plug-In program is used to view PDF files and is available free from Adobe Systems.

• INCLUDING ALL KIDS: Am I, Should I, Can I? - This is a short booklet for child care providers that briefly states what inclusion is, why children with disabilities should be included, the benefits of inclusion, and what works in including children with disabilities in child care settings.  

• Serving Children with Special Needs in Your Child Care Facility - This manual that gives information to child care providers on including children with disabilities in their facility. It includes the steps of setting up a collaborative inclusive program for preschoolers, and has numerous resources that may help the process, such as how to help staff work as a team. This booklet is slated to be updated in the near future.

Quality Child Care

• INCLUDING ALL KIDS: Am I, Should I, Can I? - This is a short booklet for child care providers that briefly states what inclusion is, why children with disabilities should be included, the benefits of inclusion, and what works in including children with disabilities in child care settings.
  
• Serving Children with Special Needs in Your Child Care Facility - This manual that gives information to child care providers on including children with disabilities in their facility. It includes the steps of setting up a collaborative inclusive program for preschoolers, and has numerous resources that may help the process, such as how to help staff work as a team. This booklet is slated to be updated in the near future.

• Web-Based Learning Units: Baby Play - This is a web-based lesson developed for child care providers on the value of playing with babies, how babies communicate, and how to play with babies at different ages.

Sensory Integration

• Comeunity - This website is filled with book reviews, articles, activities, links to other websites and also including an interview with Carol Kranowitz, author of the very popular book The Out of Sync Child.

• Sensory Integration Network - This website has a visoin to improve the quality of life for people with sensory integration dysfunction (DSI/SID). They post quality resources about sensory integration and provide information on therapy equipment and treatments suggestions, books, artilcles, videotapes, questions and answers about DSI/SID and links to related sites

• Sensory Integration Dysfunction in Young Children - This website has terrific information on sensory integration and is beneficial to anyone who would like to learn more on the topic. There is an explaination of what sensory integration is and how it affects a child. It also discusses different characteristics to look for, as well as looking at the whole picture of how it may affect a child's overall development.

• The KID Foundation's SPD Network - All about sensory processing disorder

• Sensory Tool Chest for Teachers, Parents and Students

• Sensory Recources - Resources for raising children with sensory motor, development and social-emotional challenges

• Sensory Diet Activities for Home and Away - A carefully designed, personalized activity schedule that provides the sensory input a person's nervous system needs to stay focused and organized throughout the day.

• Great Books for Parents and Kids - Books the co-authors of Raising a Sensory Smart Child frequently recommend to parents and colleagues tohelp children with sensory issues.

Social Emotional Development

• Brain Wonders - This site is designed to provide parents, caregivers and pediatric and family clinicians with meaningful information about early brain development and the relationships between babies and their parents and caregivers that support intellectual and social-emotional development.

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