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Disabilities
Center for Early Literacy Training: Practice Guides with Adaptations
These guides make it easier for young children with disabilities to participate in early literacy learning activities. Written for both parents and practitioners, the practice guides describe everyday home, community, and childcare learning opportunities that encourage early literacy learning.
North Dakota School for the Deaf Parent-Infant Program
A site for deaf and hard of hearing children.
Our-Kids
Our-Kids is a "family" of parents, caregivers and others who are working with children with physical and/or mental disabilities and delays.
ADA & Disability Information
Information and Techincal Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
The Arc
The ARC is the largest national community-based organization advocating for and serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. We encompass all ages and all spectrums from autism, Down syndrome, Fragile X and various other developmental disabilities.
Disability Resources, Inc
DRM's (Disability Resources Monthly) Disability Resources on the Web. Disability Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play independently.
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood promotes policies and advances evidence-based practices that support families and enhance the optimal development of young children who have or are at risk for developmental delays and disabilities.
Early Intervention Research Institute (EIRI)
EIRI is an interdisciplinary organization committed to investigating and improving policies and practices that support the well-being of at-risk children as well as those with special needs and their families. We conduct research as well as provide training and technical assistance at community, state, national, and international levels.
Family Village: A global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. The community includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology, adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature, and much, much more!
Family Voices: Family Voices, a national grassroots network of families and friends, advocates for health care services that are family-centered, community-based, comprehensive, coordinated and culturally competent for all children and youth with special health care needs; promotes the inclusion of all families as decision makers at all levels of health care; and supports essential partnerships between families and professionals.
Federation for Children with Special Needs: The Federation is a center for parents and parent organizations to work together on behalf of children with special needs and their families.
MUMS - National Parent-to-Parent Network: MUMS is a National Parent to Parent Network whose mission is to help parents who have a child with any disorder, medical condition, mental or emotional disorder or rare diagnosis make connections with other parents whose children have the same or similar condition.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
Serves the nation as a central source of information on: disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth; IDEA, which is the law authorizing special education; No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities); and research-based information on effective educational practices.
Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development
The major aim of the Research and Training Center (RTC) on Early Childhood Development is to implement a coordinated and advanced program of applied research on knowledge and practice that improves interventions associated with the healthy mental, behavioral, communication, preliteracy, social-emotional, and interpersonal development of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with or at risk for developmental disabilities.
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Autism
Autism Research Institute (ARI)
ARI is primarily devoted to conducting research, and to disseminating the results of research, on the causes of autism and on methods of preventing, diagnosing and treating autism and other severe behavioral disorders of childhood. They provide information based on research to parents and professionals throughout the world.
Autism Society of America
Global Autism Collaboration
Fragile X Research Foundation
Fragile X is the most common inherited cause of mental impairment. It is also the most common known cause of autism. FRAXA's mission is to find effective treatments and a cure for all children and adults with Fragile X.
National Fragile X Foundation
NFXF unites the Fragile X community to enrich lives through educational and emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, and advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for Fragile X.
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