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Alliance for Technology Access
Provides information, tools, and conferences dealing with assistive technology.
American Printing House for the Blind
Products designed for the blind, but also may be helpful to those with reading
disabilities
Arise Life Life-Skills Materials for at-risk youth... and today what youth isn't at risk?
Center for Applied Scientific Technology Center for Applied Scientific Technology (CAST) promotes the belief that the effective strategy for expanding opportunities for individuals with disabilities is through the creation of computer software and learning models that are useable by everyone, including individuals of all ages, whether they are gifted, are typical learners, or have special needs.
Cerebral Palsy - Ask the Doctor Describes Athetoid, Ataxic, and Spastic Cerebral Palsy in children, including history, causes, symptoms, therapy and treatments. People with this disease / disability can even get free information and evaluation from doctors and can possibly qualify for lifetime benefits.
Closing the Gap Bi-monthly newsletter on the use of computer technology by persons with disabilities.
Coloring Therapy A complementary modality based on suspension of the inner dialogue and our powers of self discovery and upliftment through coloring. Articles and resources available.
Communication Disorders An excellent resource on communication disorders, communicative disorders, speech science, speech therapy, speech pathology, audiology, hearing impairments.
Failure Free This site describes a reading intervention system which involves a reading attitude adjustment program. Failure Free Reading claims to turn "I can't" into "I can."
Hanen Centre Hanen centre is an international organization dedicated to providing early speech-language intervention to all young children, especially infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, kindergarten and early elementary school aged children with special needs and speech language delays.
Interactive
Metronome has
taken the concept of a musical
metronome and combined it with modern computer technology to create a training
program that can accurately measure and systematically improve a person's
timing.
Locutor.com www.learningfundamentals.com is a site which provides information on a number of tools to use to assist children and adults to increase their listening and attention keeping skills.
Miller Method Arnold Miller has developed a unique model of intervention for communication and learning disorders known as the "Miller Method." This technique has merit and deserves to be reviewed when planning treatment strategies for children with these disorders.
National Education Services This agency helps those who work with youth create safe and caring schools, agencies, and communities where all children succeed.
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) Loans books on tape and playback equipment free of charge to persons with disabilities made eligible through a physicians' statement.
Parenting: Pediatric Eye Care Parenting: Pediatric Eye Care, Children's Vision Impairments -- Strabismus, Lazy Eye, Esotropia, Exotropia, Exophoria, Esophoria, Convergence Insufficiency, Accommodative, Hyperopia, Esotropia, Hyperopia are all explored.
Pongo Publishing A volunteer, non-profit effort with Seattle teens who are in jail, on the streets, or in other ways leading difficult lives. It help these young people express themselves through poetry and other forms of writing.
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) serves people who cannot read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability. RFB&D is recognized as the nation's leading educational lending library of academic and professional textbooks on audio tape from elementary through post-graduate and professional levels.
Sensory Integration Resources:
Sibshops Sibshops Home Page is the site of the sibling support program for siblings of children with special needs.
Teen Placement Service - Teen Help for Troubled Teens this site is committed to helping parents find the most appropriate placement for their teenage troubled child.
Vision Therapy Vision therapy can be helpful in cases of children and adults who have been previously diagnosed (or misdiagnosed) with learning disabilities or developmental delays such as add-adhd or attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, autism, and more.
Wearable Computers in Education about the wearable computers as assistive tech, and how we use them every day.
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