DEPARTMENTS || Special Education
Resources
Resources listed below with an asterisk (*), and many other resources, can be found in the Cypress-Fairbanks Professional Library located at the Instructional Support Center, 10300 Jones Road. Teachers and parents are encouraged to access these resources which have been highly recommended by parents and professionals.
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDERS
- Attention Deficit Disorders Association Southern Region
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
- C.H.A.D.D. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
- Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with ADD from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, M.D.
- The ADD/ADHD Checklist by Sandra Rief, M.A.
- Parenting a Child with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder by Nancy S. Boyles, M. Ed., and Darlene Contadino, M.S.W.
AUTISM AND PDD RESOURCES
- Autism Society of America
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-0881 - Autism Society of America or email
DYSLEXIA
LEARNING DISABILITIES
TRANSITION
OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES
- Advocacy Inc.
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- ARC National Association (Organization on Mental Retardation)
- Council for Exceptional Children
- NAMI - National Association for Mental Illness
- National Council on Disabilities
- National Information Center for Children and Youth (NICHCY) PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights)
- PATH (Partners Resource Network, Inc.)
- TEAM Project
- Special Education Action Committee Inc.
- Assisting the Families of all Children with Disabilities | 1-877-832-8945
STATE AND FEDERAL RESOURCES
- Alabama State Department of Education
- Alabama Rehabilitation Services
- Alabama Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation
- Alabama Council for Developmental Disabilities
- Alabama Career Information Network System
- Alabama Work Incentives Network
- Medicaid Agency of Alabama
- U.S. Department of Education
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