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National Council on Disability
Description: This website provides links to resources regarding disabilities and information on the rights of disabled people.
Resources for Parents of Twins 
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a listing of resources for parents with twins.
Description: This website provides links to resources that address the topic of social skills.
Teach More/Love More: Special Needs Children
Description: Provides information and resources for parents with special needs children.
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Assessing Program Quality, February 1999 (PDF)
Description: NCEDL researchers are developing the Early Intervention Services Assessment Scale (EISAS) to comprehensively assess the quality of early intervention services provided to young children with disabilities and their parents. This PDF document answers questions such as if the intervention programs effect the outcomes of children and family.
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A Guide for Educators: Bullying—What Educators Can Do About It
Description: This 12-page publication offers advice to educators on what they can do about bullying. It includes sections on different forms of bullying, strategies for teachers and schools, references, classroom activities, and children's books related to bullying.
A Parent's Role in Preventing Eating Disorders
Description: This tip sheet offers suggestion on what parents can do to model healthy eating and physical activity for their children.
Adjusting to the Diagnosis: Down Syndrome
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article deals with issues parents face in learning they will be having a Down Syndrome child.
Description: Through research-based interventions, GLSEN provides resources and support for schools to implement effective and age-appropriate anti-bullying programs to improve school climate for all students. This website provides programs and resources to help all members of the school community address bullying in inclusive and effective ways.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "The following is a list of signs that suggest that a person may have ADHD (APA, 1994). Keep in mind that ADHD is not an "on-again, off-again" style of behavior. A good rule of thumb is that a person must display several of these behaviors for 6 months or more before a diagnosis of ADHD is considered."
Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
Description: This article describes the characteristics of bullying, how parents can recognize if their child is being victimized and what parents can do to help. The author, Mark Lakewood, is a bullying prevention expert, author, and speaker with over 20 years of clinical experience as a family therapist.
Bullying: What Parents and Teachers Should Know
Description: A study conducted by the Kaiser Foundation found that 86% of children ages 12-15 said they get teased or bullied at school — making bullying more prevalent than smoking, alcohol, drugs, or sex among the same age group.
Bullying: A Big Problem with Big Consequences
Description: This guide (available on CD) was developed by University of Minnesota Extension to help parents understand how to identify a wide range of bullying behavior and understand reasons these behaviors occur; develop strategies to help teens handle bullying behavior-whether a bully, bullied, or a bystander; and learn appropriate steps to take if a teen is a bully, bullied or bystander.
Children with AD/HD and Their Families
Author: Lewis, Marissa
Description: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is the most commonly diagnosed child psychiatric disorder in the United States and accounts for at least half of all referrals to child counseling centers.
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Conduct Disorder is a childhood behavior disorder characterized by a consistent pattern of violating the basic rights of others or major accepted rules or standards of behavior."
Description: This publication focuses on what educators can do to create safe learning spaces for all youth. It provides an overview of the developmental model for sexual identity, links to resources and definitions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Description: A public advertising campaign aimed at preventing cyberbullying. Online bullying, called cyberbullying, happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyberbullying is a problem that affects almost half of all American teens.
Description: Provides quick facts on what cyberbullying is and a series of link to resources on how to recognize and prevent cyberbullying.
Description: The Cyberbullying Research Center provides information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.
Educator’s Guide to Cyberbullying, Cyberthreats & Sexting
Description: There are increasing reports of children and teens using these technologies to post damaging text or images to bully their peers or engage in other aggressive behavior. There are also reports of teens posting material that raises concerns that they are considering an act of violence against others or themselves. More recently concerns of sending provocative nude or semi-nude images, a practice called “sexting” have emerged. This guide provides educators with insight into these concerns and guidelines to prevent and respond.
Factsheet: Bullying and Gay Youth
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of the challenges of being a teenager, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GBLT) teens in terms of having to deal with harassment, threats, and violence.
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
Description: Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. Established in 1990, GLSEN envisions a world in which every child learns to respect and accept all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Helping Kids Deal with Bullies
Description: This website describes how to recognize bullying and how parents can help their child cope and get help. Available in English and Spanish.
How Parents and Agents Can Address Bullying with Youth
Description: This article by Rosemary V. Barnett, University of Florida, presents a series of steps that extension agents, parents, and educators can take together to encourage involvement in creating a safe and fear-free learning environment.
Description: This eight-chapter manual is designed to help parents make decisions and become educated about caring for a child with disabilities. Includes information on support services and helpful hints.
Author: Reid, Joan
Description: This is a fact sheet aimed at parents concerned about hyperactivity in their children.
Is Your Child Sexting? What Parents Need to Know
Description: Short article on what parents need to know about the risks, emotional as well as legal, of sexting.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Author: Evans, Garret (12 more by this author)
Description: "Oppositional Defiant Disorder(ODD) is a diagnosis given to children who display a pattern of negative and defiant behavior to parents, teachers and others who have authority over them."
PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention
Description: The mission of PACER Center (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) 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. PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention unites, engages, and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant, and interactive resources.
Parent Education and Support Literature Review
Author: Brown, Margaret
Description: List of links for parental education
Parental Guilt and Kids with Special Needs
Author: Slack, Rozario (1 more by this author)
Description: This article presents a series of suggestions aimed at helping parents deal with the psychological and emotional adjustments they must adapt to in providing for children with special needs.
Preventing Cyberbullying: Top Ten Tips for Educators
Description: This fact sheet from the Cyberbullying Research Institute provides 10 tips for preventing cyberbullying in schools and communities.
Problem Behaviors With Children
Author: Hill, Melinda (8 more by this author)
Description: "All children have behavior problems, some being harder to accept than others. Some of these behaviors can cause children to be aggressive, hostile and difficult to handle, which may emphasize their respective limitations. As parents we are our children's first and foremost teacher. We need to establish our plan for accomplishing rules and expectations."
Respite Care for Children Who Are Medically Fragile
Author: Cernoch, Jennifer (1 more by this author)
Description: Respite program options: general partnerships and resources; community and family needs assessment; licensing and standards; staffing; training; medical services and collaboration; innovative community-based respite support programs; resources and references.
Respite Care for Children with Autism
Author: Taras, Marie
Description: Description of the characteristics of children with autism with suggestions about provider training and child care provision.
Respite Care for Children with Developmental and/or Physical Disabilities: a Parent
Author: Miller, Scott
Description: Parent's perspective on keys to a successful respite program.
Respite Care for Children with HIV-Related Conditions
Author: Weiler, Jane
Description: Program considerations such as training, provider support and supervision, use of volunteers, and medical services.
Respite for Children with Disabilities, & Chronic or Terminal Illness
Author: Cernoch, Jennifer (1 more by this author)
Description: Definition of respite, information about seven program models, and listing of resources and references for further information.
Respite for Families with Children Experiencing a Serious Emotional Disturbance
Author: Sturtevant, Judith; Sandra Elliott
Description: Finding respite services for a child with challenging behavioral issues, can be difficult for families. This fact sheet discusses the definition and characteristics of emotional disturbance, issues for families, program considerations including the referral process, the matching of respite providers and families, liability, training, and evaluation, as well as the need for state involvement in program planning.
Sibling issues when one has special needs: Am I my brother's keeper?
Description: This fact sheet provides information on families who have a special needs child and the impact on other siblings.
Siblings of Children with Special Health and Developmental Needs
Author: Meyer, Donald
Description: Discussion of the typical concerns of sisters and brothers and how to create programs that address their specific needs. Provides a checklist for organizations to assess their inclusion of sisters and brothers.
Teach your parents well: Training parents is best treatment for kids with conduct disorder
Author: Schwarz, Joel
Description: This news article highlights the results of a study on parenting children with special needs in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Description: This article provides tips for talking with parents about developmental delays.
Description: Sexting usually refers to teens sharing nude photos via electronic media, such as cellphones and the Internet. This fact sheet outlines some of the legal and psychological consequences.
What Parents Can Do About Childhood Bullying
Description: This resource is aimed at helping parents recognize the signs that a child is a bully, as well as the signs of one who is being victimized. Includes information focused on children who have a learning disability (LD) or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), conditions that can make children more vulnerable to bullying.
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National Technical Assistance Center for Children
Description: The National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health (TA Center) is an integral part of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development at the Georgetown University Medical Center. The TA Center has been dedicated to working in partnership with families and many other leaders across this country to reform services for children and adolescents who have, or are at risk for, mental health problems and their families.
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
Description: The goal of the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (Technical Assistance Partnership) is to support the Center for Mental Health Services' Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program SOC grant communities in their efforts to successfully develop and implement local systems of care. Seven of these communities are tribally affiliated.
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Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Description: This is a group for individuals who are caring for an older adult, person with a disability, or the child of a member of your family. The group is sponsored by the Family Caregiving Community of Practice at www.extension.org. This site contains research-based information and learning tools related to family caregiving.
Families Caring Linked in Group
Description: This group is for persons who care for an older adult, person with a disability, or child of a relative. This could be both in a professional or informal capacity.
Description: This Twitter page is for persons who care for an older adult, person with a disability, or child of a relative. This could be both in a professional or informal capacity.
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Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with allergies and asthma.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Author: Torppa, Cynthia (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet presents an overview of autism and related disorders as studies have documented the increasing incidence of serious neurological disorders in children. Makes suggestions on what parents and other concerned adults can to help children with these disorders.
Caring for Children With Special Needs: Chronic Illnesses
Author: Greenstein, Doreen (13 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet focuses on children with chronic illnesses like diabetes or cystic fibrosis that need some type of special care. The author has provided a list of things to keep in mind when caring for children with chronic illnesses and references for further information.
Caring for Children With Special Needs: HIV and AIDS
Author: Greenstein, Doreen (13 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet for child care providers focuses on caring for children with HIV. HIV cannot be transmitted through casual contact in a child care setting. Universal precautions and proper hygiene are discussed as ways to reduce the risk of exposure to infectious illnesses. The author provides references for additional information.
Caring for Children With Special Needs: Physical Differences and Impairments
Author: Greenstein, Doreen (13 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet for child care providers discusses how caregivers can create an environment where children with impairments and physical differences can be included in their program. References are listed for those wanting additional information.
Caring for Children With Special Needs: Speech and Language Problems
Author: Greenstein, Doreen (13 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet for child care providers focuses on speech and language development. The author provides ideas to enrich children's language and provides references for additional information.
Caring for Children With Special Needs: Visual Impairments
Author: Greenstein, Doreen (13 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet defines terms used to describe visual impairments and gives strategies for child care providers to use when working with a child that has impaired vision. The author provides references for additional information.
Caring for Children with Special Needs: Feeling Comfortable
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. This section deals with feeling comfortable.
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Author: Kerby, Alvy
Description: The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring provides information on parenting skill-building programs, training resources for parent educators, and links to other professional websites and resources.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with challenging behavior.
Child Development: developmental milestones infants
Description: Information on child development from the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC geared to developmental milestones.
Child Development: developmental milestones middle childhood
Description: Information on child development from the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC geared to developmental milestones.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Chronic Illnesses.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a ser un buen lector
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Description: Fast Track is a comprehensive, multi-site project designed to prevent serious and chronic antisocial behavior in a sample of children selected as high-risk at school entry because of their conduct problems in kindergarten and home.
Description: This guide is designed to provide policy makers and Child Traumatic Stress program developers with critical information about the range of federal funding sources that are currently available and have the potential to support initiatives that develop, implement, and disseminate child trauma interventions. The guide identifies strategies that Child Traumatic Stress initiatives and other trauma-focused initiatives can implement to access a wide array of funding sources
Description: This clearinghouse for families and professionals with dealing with troubled and at-risk teens provides comprehensive information and resources on topics such as parenting, counseling and therapy, emotional and physical health and substance abuse. Includes a state-by-state directory of support services.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Hearing Impairments.
Helping Children Cope with Death
Author: Temke, Mary (23 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet suggests age-appropriate way to help children understand and cope with the death of a loved one.
Helping Children Grow: Dealing with Problem Behavior
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions and tips to help parents deal with problem behaviors.
Helping Children Grow: The Disabled Child
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides parents with suggestions and tips for raising children with disabilities.
Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Helping Your Child With Homework
Description: This booklet helps parents of elementary and junior high school students understand why homework is important and makes suggestions for helping children complete assignments successfully.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with HIV or AIDS.
Description: The CDC's "Learn the Signs. Act Early" program aims to improve early identification of children with autism and other developmental disabilities so children and families can get the services and supports they need as early as possible
Author: Bowman, Sally; Sharon Rosenkoetter
Description: One of the most persistent challenges for families with young children with special needs is finding and coordinating the resources available to support them and their children. These challenges are simulated in an interactive workshop designed for 25 to 75 participants to sensitize them to the day-to-day realities faced by a family with an infant, toddler, or young child with disabilities. The simulation has been used successfully with community service providers from multiple agencies and disciplines. It has applicability to all practitioners who work with children and their families.
Physical Differences & Impairments
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Physical Differences & Impairments.
Positive Guidance for Hard-to-handle Kids: Parenting Education for Foster Parents
Author: Davis, Tracy
Description: This site provides a complete description of a program designed for foster parents who experience challenges in raising difficult, temperamental children. Aimed at foster parents with children 3-12 years old.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Seizure Disorders.
The Americans with Disabilities Act
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Americans and the disabilities act.
Description: Kansas State University and North Carolina State University have partnered within Second Life® to create educational tools for consumers. The goal of this initial project is: To tell people about design features and assistive technology that enable a person to live at home despite physical or mental challenges caused by aging, illness, or disability.
Description: The DoD's new Education Directory for Children with Special Needs provides useful, practical information for families of military dependents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Child Traumatic Stress Initiatives
Description: This guide presents a conceptual framework for financing Child Traumatic Stress initiatives work and a set of approaches that initiative leaders can implement to provide comprehensive and coordinated trauma supports and services. Â It presents general principles to guide the selection of financing strategies and outlines an array of approaches to finance interventions for traumatized children and adolescents. Â It also provides considerations to help initiative leaders select financing strategies that closely align with their program goals, available resources, and the political and economic environments in which they work.
Thriving with Your Spirited Child
Description: Thriving with Your Spirited Child was created to provide resources to parents/guardians of spirited children. As parenting class participants asked questions it was evident that they were describing spirited child characteristics. The parents did not realize they had a spirited child and had inadequate tools for dealing effectively with the temperament traits.
Thriving with Your Spirited Child
Author: Baumgartner, Nan; Faden Fulleylove-Krause; Donna Doll-Yogerst
Description: This web-based curriculum includes teaching materials (background, power point, facilitator's guide, activities, transparencies, parent resources, and children's activities.); publicity (brochure, poster, certificate, display board, news release) and evaluation. The web-base enables easy access/adaptation for local implementation. Extensive evaluation data have been collected and formatted into success stories.
Description: This series of publications, Caring for Children with Special Needs, is for caregivers who are, for the first time, going to be taking care of children with special needs due to a disability, disease, or other condition. First, let's remember that all children have special needs. This section deals with Visual Impairments,
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Abuse of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Description: This article discusses why children with intellectual disabilities are more likely to be abused and how to prevent abuse from occurring.
America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Description: This annual report, which provides detailed information on the welfare of children and families. It tracks three demographic background measures and 40 key indicators and features children with special health care needs.
Assessing Program Quality, February 1999 (PDF)
Description: NCEDL researchers are developing the Early Intervention Services Assessment Scale (EISAS) to comprehensively assess the quality of early intervention services provided to young children with disabilities and their parents. This PDF document answers questions such as if the intervention programs effect the outcomes of children and family.
Description: Fast Track is a comprehensive, multi-site project designed to prevent serious and chronic antisocial behavior in a sample of children selected as high-risk at school entry because of their conduct problems in kindergarten and home.
Description: This article provides a review of the benefits of respite care for families who have a child with a serious emotional disorder and examples of the range of respite care strategies that communities have developed to respond to the different needs and preference of families.
RWJF Content Alert: Study Reveals Prolonged Effectiveness of Early Intervention Program
Description: This trial expands on earlier investigations to support the value of early intervention programs and the need to extend educational enrichment activities to a broader range of children. The IHDP intervention served lower- and higher-weight preterm infants, who tend to be at risk for serious health and developmental problems.
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Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
Description: The goal of the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (Technical Assistance Partnership) is to support the Center for Mental Health Services' Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program SOC grant communities in their efforts to successfully develop and implement local systems of care. Seven of these communities are tribally affiliated.