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» A website for parents of dyslexics & special needs children - offers advice and links for parenting chidren with dyslexia and special needs.
» Aba Resources for Recovery from Autism - Information on educational intervention for autism and related pervasive developmental disorders.
» Assessment of Preschool Children - ERIC Digest discusses history of preschool assessment and explores current trends in identifying special needs students.
» Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development - Producing a comprehensive, individualized measurement system for children with disabilities from birth to eight years of age. Site includes program goals and contact information.
» Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center Site - An educational, service, and supply resource for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech impaired people. Has a parent-infant program for parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
» Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential - Nonprofit educational organization introduces caregivers to the field of child brain development. Serves both brain-injured children and well children.
» Learning Disabilities Resources - Offers new articles about learning disabilities each week. Also features children's artwork and stories.
» Meeting the Needs of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children with Disabilities - Summarizes U.S. requirements for meeting the needs of special needs children under the age of 5 in the public school classroom.
» Migrant / Seasonal Child Development - Agri-Business Child Development (ABCD) provides Head Start services including education, nutrition, health/dental, social services, disabilities services to farmworker families, their children and other rural poor.
» Preschoolers: Learning and Other Disabilities - Links to articles on learning and other disabilities that have information and advice directly relevant to preschool children. Rating system rates each articles as good, very good, or best.
» Speech Therapy Activities - Activities for parents and educators to help enhance the speech and language of children.
» The Parent-Child Home Program - Home-based literacy and parenting program serving families challenged by poverty, low-levels of education, language barriers and other obstacles to educational success.
» Too young for glasses? - contains information useful for families of babies and young children who have vision impairment which could be improved by use of prescription glasses.