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Setting up Your Classroom

• Some good suggestions on several topics
• The really big list of classroom management techniques: There are classroom management techniques tailored to elementary and secondary education, discipline ideas for new and experienced teachers, tips for handling special education, suggestions for getting organized, strategies for preventing behavior problems, sample classroom rules, ways of creating a caring community, and information on new products and services. 

Sexual Harassment and Special Education 

• Responding to sexual harassment in special education settings: Here are sobering facts: Sexual harassment permeates the culture of American schools. The majority of students report that they have experienced sexual harassment. 
• Frequently Asked Questions About Sexual Harassment of Students-From the Office of Civil Rights: Sexual harassment of students is a real and serious problem in education at all levels, including elementary and secondary schools, as well as colleges and universities. It can affect any student, regardless of sex, race, or age. 
• Sexual Harassment in Schools Resources 

Spanish Information on Disability Topics (look for  "espanol" to the right)

Special Education Research 

Speech-Language Impairments 

Spina Bifida

State Education Departments

State Listings of Agencies, Disability and Parent Organizations

Strategies and tactics for effective instruction (PDF file)

Student’s Guide to Jobs

• This Student's Guide to Jobs: This booklet is especially for students with significant disabilities such as mental retardation and autism. 

Student’s Guide to the IEP

• This guide will tell students what an IEP is, why you need to be part of your IEP team, how to help write your IEP, and much, much more!!  

Summer Camps for Children with Disabilities

• Guide and listing of special education summer camps 

Teacher Checklists for Students with Disabilities 

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• Checklists for Teachers: This site features mentor teachers, teaching techniques, strategies, checklists and researches on how to teach students with Learning Disabilities. The article on this site that pertains to the aforementioned topic is, “The ADD/ADHD Checklist.”
• Checklists for students with learning disabilities: This site contains observational checklists that help one determine a child’s strengths and/or weaknesses. This is a valuable resource to bring to an IEP meeting or a parent/teacher conference.

Technical Assistance Guide: Helping Students with Cognitive Disabilities Find and Keep a Job

Terminology Used in Special Education

• Extensive source and easy to manage 

Test Modifications and Accommodations

• Accommodations and Modifications of Test Administration Procedures for Statewide Assessments-an example of one state's standards
• 20 ways to examine test modifications
• Accommodation strategies
• The diverse classroom
• Accommodation checklist 

Test Publishers in Special Education

• The Teacher's Guide - Lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children's songs, and more.

• Token Economy

• Guidelines for establishing and maintaining token economies: This site provides the steps in planning the token economy system, behaviors to be targeted, effective reinforcers and the administration of the plan.

• This site defines the Token Economy System, and its three levels:  Points, Progress and Merit. : school use of a behavior management system utilizing a token economy. 

• This site describes the token economy system, how to use behavior token economies, activities and discussion questions and links to other sites regarding this topic: One of the most often used behavior management techniques, especially in settings for students who have learning or behavioral difficulties, is the token economy system.  A token economy involves awarding tokens, chips, stickers, points, or other items/markings to students who demonstrate desired behaviors identified by the teacher.

• This defines token economy, the goals of token economy, what a token economy looks like, guidelines for creating and using token economy systems: Token economies are one type of secondary (conditioned) reinforcement. That is, tokens begin as essentially neutral stimuli, of little significance in and of themselves. However, as the tokens become increasingly associated with the reinforcers for which they are exchanged, the tokens themselves can become mildly reinforcing, making learning that much more motivating.

Tourette's Syndrome

• FAQ about Tourette's Syndrome

• Overview

• Diagnostic criteria

• Tourette's Syndrome and yeast

• Tourette's Primer

• Support organizations

• Treatment options

• Interesting facts about Tourettes

• Tourette's Syndrome in adult life

• Medical progress-PDF file

• Tourette's Syndrome pen pals

• For parents

• Educating peers about Tourette's Syndrome

• School care plan-PDF file

• School based occupational therapy services for children with Tourettes-PDF file

• Educating children with Tourette's Syndrome

• Tips on dealing with Tics in the classroom

• Resource guide for teachers on Tourette's Syndrome-PDF file

• Guide to the diagnosis and treatment of Tourettes

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Information page

• Tourette's Syndrome in the classroom-a teacher's personal story

Transition Timeline

• a good example list from a Virginia school district-PDFTransition Services

• Transition Services in the IEP: This site provides the following information:  what the transition services are, when the school districts must provide services, who determines what services are needed, how the team determines what services are needed, who provides the transition services, where the transitional services are provided, what the transition services include. 

• Information on Transition Services: This website provides frequently asked questions and answers about the topic of transitional services. 

• Transition Requirements: The site provides technical assistance for the appropriate implementation of the transition requirements of Public Law 105-17, IDEA of 1997 and the final regulations published on March 12, 1999. This site clarifies the transition requirements of the IDEA, provides samples, and suggests practices to implement those requirements. 

• Transition services for children with mental retardation: Cooperative planning and preparation involving both the student and family, school personnel,and community representatives, which extends beyond the student's current educational setting. This planning process was mandated for the first time in educational legislation in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) which stipulated that one of the purposes of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) was to plan for needed transition services. Transition planning is an outcome oriented process which creates an important link between school and community and provides opportunities for students with disabilities to discus their hopes and dreams for their future. 

• Parent's Guide to understanding transition services: This article is a result of a collaborative project of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, the Ashburnham-Westminster School District, and the May Institute.  

• Transition FAQ: This section provides brief responses to questions about the transition planning and service process frequently asked by students, parents, schools and community service providers.  

Transition Services 

Traumatic Brain Injury  

Triennial Evaluation Preparation 

Traumatic Brain Injury

Triennial Evaluation Preparation