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Special Education
Australian Resources | Overseas Resources | Electronic Journals | Inclusive Education
ADD / ADHD | Autism / Asperger | Cerebral Palsy | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Diabetes
Down Syndrome | Dyslexia | Dyspraxia | Epilepsy | Gifted and Talented
Hearing Impaired | Learning Disabilities | Mental Health | Vision ImpairedAustralian Resources
- Inclusive Education: Students with Disabilities Education Queensland website
Provides information, support and resources relating to students with disabilities and their active participation in learning- QSA Policy on Equity
- Teacher Aides Working with Students with Disabilities
This series of seven booklets provides relevant information so that teacher aides may feel better equipped to work with students with disabilities in preschools, primary and secondary schools.
- Disability Standards for Education 2005 DEST information site
- Association for Children with a Disability
- Australian Association of Special Education
- Commonwealth Disability Strategy
Government website within the Department of Families, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs- EdNA: School Education: Disabilities & Learning Difficulties
- EnableNet " the home of disability information on the Net"
Website developed by the Disability Information & Resource Centre , South Australia- Students with Disabilities
SOFWeb (Victoria) website which provides an extensive listing of resources.Overseas Resources
- Special Educational Needs and Disability U.K. government site aims to provide a wide range of advice and materials for teachers, parents and others interested in or working with children with special educational needs.
- Council for Exceptional Children U.S.
- Current Topics in Psychology Includes resources for Special Education
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
- Internet Resources for Special Children
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) US site on students with disabilities. Includes NCIP Links to other sites.
- School Psychology Resources Online Links to resources on specific disabilities
- Special Education Branch, British Columbia
Provides information about teaching students with various disabilities.- Special Education Dictionary
- Special Needs Education project from SchoolNet, Canada.
- Trace Research & Development Center Technology and disability
- Yahoo Disability Directory
Inclusive Education
- Inclusion A U.K. catalgue of resouces to support individual learning needs
- Inclusion
U.S web site designed for general education teachers, special education teachers, parents, and school staff to help provide some answers about how inclusive education can be accomplished.- CSIE: Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
British independent educational charity which gives information and advice about inclusive education and related issues.- Centre for Special Needs and Studies in Inclusive Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Dyspraxia Epilepsy Gifted and Talented
ADD / ADHD
Autism Cerebral Palsy Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diabetes Down Syndrome Dyslexia
- ADDNet UK
- National (U.S.) Attention Deficit Disorder Association Information and links to other sites
- ADDvance An online resource for women & girls with Attention Deficit Disorder
- Born to Explore: The Other Side of ADD Offers an alternative perspective on ADD and ADHD
- Mining.com's Attention Deficit Disorder Home Page
- Medicating Kids Online version of a U.S current affairs program on ADHD
Hearing Impaired
- Gifted Education: ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
- Gifted Education Conference Proceedings of the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
- National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented US site
- Queensland Association for Gifted & Talented Children Includes links to other sites of interest
- World Council for Gifted and Talented Children
Learning Disabilities
- Australian Association of the Deaf
- Deaf and Hearing Impaired
- Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children Australia's major independent special educator, providing a wide range of educational services to children who have significant hearing and/or vision loss, including children who have additional disabilities.
Mental Health
- Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability
- LD OnLine Interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children
- Learning Difficulties Australia Organisation for professionals working with people who experience difficulties with learning
- Move to Learn Describes the benefits of a sensory integration movement program to academic performance.
- Roads to Learning Information about learning disabilities
- SchwabLearning.org A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Differences
Vision Impaired
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Facts for Families
- HeadRoom Australian site designed to provide a range of mental health information to young people and the people who work with them
- Internet Mental Health
- Low Incidence Unit: Vision Impairment Services
- Queensland School Curriculum Council: Vision Impairment [.pdf file, 12 pages]
- Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children Australia's major independent special educator, providing a wide range of educational services to children who have significant hearing and/or vision loss, including children who have additional disabilities.
- Narbethong State Special School A school for the visually/additionally impaired in Brisbane
- American Foundation for the Blind Information Center
- New York Institute for Special Education Originally The New York Institution for the Blind. The site includes disability links via the Blindness Resource Center
- Royal National Institute for the Blind, UK
Electronic Journals
- JCU Electronic Journal subscriptions Alphabetical list of all ejournal subscriptions. Titles are also listed on Tropicat.
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities Blackwell Science Online - via Synergy. JCU staff and students only.
- Disability and Society Available to JCU staff and students only. Print copy also held at CNS 362.4 P6.
- Dyslexia Full text available to JCU staff and students only.
- Exceptional Children on InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index, also on ProQuest. JCU staff and students only. Print copy also held at TSV 371.9 P4.
- Imagine Newsletter for precollege students who want to take an active role in their own education. Available to staff and students of JCU only.
- Intervention in School and Clinic on ProQuest
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology on InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index. JCU staff and students only.
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities Blackwell Science Online - via Synergy. Password required for remote users - please contact InfoHelp.
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research via ingenta. Also available via Synergy. Print version available at TSV 157.8 P3.
- Journal of Learning Disabilities on InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index. JCU staff and students only. Also held in print at 371.9 P2
- Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs [v.1, 2001+]
Published by Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN)- Remedial and Special Education on ProQuest Education Complete. JCU staff and students only. Also in print at TSV 371.9 P30.
- Special Education News
News and informative features and statistics from the preK-12 special education field. Distributed weekly, free via e-mail.
Education Resources
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Please contact Helen Hooper if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.Links checked February 2002; Page updated November 2002 by lbcy,
Information and Research Support, James Cook University.
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