Special Education Program: Related Links

Teacher Education Resources

• Teacher Education Assessment Information (from Bill Wishart's site). Please refer to information here about teacher education assessment and dispositions).
• Link to your Personal Learning Portfolio: Learningcentral.org
• Tennessee Department of Education
• Tennessee Framework for Evaluation and Professional Growth
• US Department of Education

For Special Education Majors

• UT Student CEC Site
• CEC Home Page
• CEC's Page for Student Members
• Modules from the IRIS Center - very useful resources for teacher candidates who will work with students who have disabilities (i.e., ALL teacher candidates)
• Pearson UT Site - textbook companion site for SPED 402, SPED 419, and SPED 533

Campus Sources for Assistance

• VolAware: Distressed Student Protocol
  
• VolAware: Mental Health Screenings
  
• UTK Counseling Center
  
• UTK Student Success Center
  
• UTK Office of Disability Services
  
• UTK Division of Student Affairs

Writing & APA Style

• Easy Writer 20 Most Common Errors (in academic and professional writing)
  
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

• Dr. Grammar
  
• OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab): APA 6th Edition
• The Sentence Sleuth
  
• APA Style Main Page
  
• Dr. Scribe’s APA Guide
  
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers in APA Style
• EndNote Bibliography Software
• Online engine to test and improve document readibility

Lesson Planning

• Module on Planning for Instruction (from Dr. O'Bannon's site. Please refer to information about writing learning objectives in ABCD format when writing lesson plans)
• Tennessee Curriculum Standards
• Classroom Architect - for designing your classroom layout

Assessment/Testing

• Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program
• Site about creating good teacher-made tests (Indiana University)
• Designing Test Questions (UTC)
• Test Designer: Info about writing good test questions
• RubiStar - site that helps you generate rubrics
• Rubric help from Teachnology
• Info on portfolio assessment from TeacherVision
• Curriculum-Based Measurement Warehouse
• Collection of Data Sheets

Diversity-Related Sites

• Teaching Tolerance - part of the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Project Implicit - interesting site about examining your personal biases
• Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching
• A Class Divided - PBS Special on 1968 classroom experiment about discrimination

Legislation, Litigation, or History of Special Education

• Landmark Cases in Special Education
• Timeline of Special Education History
• History of American Education
• Council for Exceptional Children's Policy and Advocacy Page - links to info about IDEA and many other legal resources including links to contact your congress representatives
• Wrightslaw Page about IDEA 2004 Reauthorization

Disability Awareness and Advocacy

• Disability is Natural: See Language/Communication page for information on People First Language.
• End the R Word Campaign
• Knoxville Disability Resources
• Including Samuel: Inclusion for All Students
  
• Disaboom.com - information and resources for people with disabilities
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
  
• Disability Awareness Kit (actually for librarians in Australia, but a great resource!)
  
• Cornucopia of Disability Information
  
• Disability Resources Monthly (DRM)
• If you want to find information about a specific disability or disorder:
  
  • National Organization for Rare Disorders (see the index of rare disorders)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • MEDgle - medical search engine to search for information about medical conditions
• Here is a site with tons of information about disability-related legal issues:
  • Majlessi's Rights of the Disabled Page
• Health and Disability Statistics from Family Village
• Census Data regarding People with Disabilities

Disability-Specific Sites

Intellectual Disabilities

• The ARC - formerly Association for Retarded Citizens
• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Learning Disabilities

• Learning Disabilities Association of America
• LD Online

Autism

• Autism Society of America
• East Tennessee Chapter of Autism Society
• CDC Statement about Autism and Vaccines

AD/HD

• Attention Deficit Disorder Association
• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)

Emotional/Behavioral Disorders

• Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
• Medline information about a wide variety of behavioral disorders
• Disciplinehelp.com
• BehaviorAdvisor.com
• UK Behavior Home Page

Physical and Health Disabilities

• The Division for Physical, Health and Multiple Disabilities
• United Cerebral Palsy
  
• Muscular Dystrophy Association
  
• Spina Bifida Association
  
• The Brain Injury Association, Inc.
• Georgia Bureau for Students with Physical and Health Impairments (especially see monograph on Strategies for Promoting Literacy for Students who have Physical Disabilities)
• Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  
• Epilepsy Foundation of America
  
• National Childhood Cancer Foundation
• Children with Diabetes

Assistive Technology

• Tennessee Association for Assistive Technology
• East Tennessee Technology Access Center
• Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative Purchasing Program