Mary's Links

American Academy of Audiology	The American Academy of Audiology is a professional organization of individuals dedicated to providing quality hearing care to the public.
The American Occupational Therapy Association	gives information about OT.
The American Physical Therapy Association	The American Physical Therapy Association is a national, professional organization representing more than 70,000 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students. APTA's goal is to foster advancement in physical therapy practice, education, and research.
American Speech Language Hearing Association	A professional association of audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and others.
Asperger's-Your Right to Know	Richard Saffran's page with links to all areas involving Asperger's, PDD, PDD-NOS, autism, hyperlexia, and Rett Syndrome. There are also links to information concerns teaching methods that are a branch of applied behavior analysis (ABA).
Asperger's	Information and support group.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder	Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Autism	New York Families for Autistic Children.
Autism Society of America	the leading source of information and referral on autism.
The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law	Center for mental health provides advocacy information.
CBEL	A link with many links.
Center for Communicative and Cognitive Disabilities	Computer technology and special education resources for special children.
Center for Law and Education	working to bring about school- and district-wide change across the country in order to improve educational outcomes, particularly for low-income students.
Central Institute for the Deaf	Network of resources central to knowledge and the progressive treatment of adult and childhood deafness.
Cherab Foundation	Apraxia is a neurological disorder which can affect the body, or speech, or both.
Coalition of Special Education Parents	(COSEP) is a discussion group focused on the pre-school, elementary and secondary education of children having special needs.
Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education	Encouraging the use of mediation and other collaborative strategies to resolve disagreements about special education and early intervention programs.
Downs Syndrome	Support group with information, resources, links.
Disability Resources	Resources on the Internet - Jim Lubin's collection of a variety of disability resources. The site includes not only organizations but articles, disability lists -servers, newsletters, and more.
The Division for Early Childhood	Council for exceptional children, Dec. division works on behalf of parents and special needs children birth through eight.
Education Week	American Education’s Online Newspaper
The Federal Resource Center	for Special Education is the contact point for OSEP
Federal Office of Special Education Programs	OSEP is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
Find Law	A resource for locating laws, legal documents, Federal and State Codes.
IDEA	1997 Regulations.
IDEA	Law and Procedures
International Reading Association	studies the reading process and teaching techniques. Research and publications.
Internet Special Education Resources	A directory of professionals serving special educational needs.
National Center for Disabilities	An independent federal agency that was established to advise the administration and Congress on public policy affecting people with disabilities.
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice	Providing services to juveniles and youth with mental illnesses.
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media, and Materials	promoting the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities.
National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators	Organization advancing effectiveness of technology for individuals with disabilities.
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities	NICHCY is here to share information about disabilities in children and youth.
The National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind	Provides technical assistance to children who are deaf-blind.
North East Technical Assistance Center	Advances educational access for postsecondary education for deaf and hard of hearing,
Office of Special Education, Oregon Department of Education	Oregon’s Office of Special Education.
Oregon Education Association	Tracking important legislation affecting public schools, students, and educators.
Special Education Resources on the Internet	A collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education.
Special Education Resources from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia	Special Education Resources from the Curry School of Education
Struggling Teens	Educational Consultants helping parents and professionals since 1989.
TechnologyResources	Community-based resource centers dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard,assistive, and information technologies.
Wrights Law	Parents, Advocates, Educatios, and Attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about advocacy for children with disabilities.