The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPPA) - An independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization of attorneys, advocates and parents established to improve the quality and quantity of legal assistance for parents of children with disabilities.

 ASL Products

 Assistive Technology, Inc.

 ERICA, Inc,

 Express Eye, Optomotor Laboratories

 Eye Control Technologies

 EyeTech Digital Systems

 EyeTrace

 Fourward Optical Technologies, Inc

 H.A. Mooij Holding B.V.

 NAC Image Technology

 Metrovision

 SMI Eyelink

 Skalar Eye-trackers

 ISCAN

 Vision Control Systems

 Vision Key Series - keyboard operated
by eye movements

 VisionKey

 The Children's Heart Institute - A site designed specifically to try and help parents understand their child's heart problems

 SADS Australia Foundation

 The SADS Foundation

 The Canadian SADS Foundation

 The European Long QT Syndrome Information Site

 Dr Woosley's Drugs to Avoid List

National Network for Child Care - Child Development Information

The Child Development Institute

Baby Center

Communicate - speech and language milestones

American Academy of Pediatrics - guide to speech development

LD On-Line - speech and language milestones

Blankees - speech and language milestones

About - guide to language and speech resources

National Network for Child Care - infant development

Kid Source - early childhood growth chart

Wee Talk - how babies learn to talk

Zero to Three - developmental milestones

 e-SCORE - an on-line resource with ideas and sheets for helping children to develop and learn

 Wide Smiles - Cleft Lip and Palate Resource

 Mayer Johnson - communication using symbols

 Silver Lining Multimedia Inc. - Photo Graphics to use when making flash cards etc

 Kid Access - colourful abstract pictures for visual learning

Makaton - a universal system of total communication

 Beyond Autism - Additional PECS pictures made by a parent

EASI - Equal Access to Software and Information - EASI's mission is to serve as a resource to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities.

 Speech Diet Listerv - A listserv for the discussion of diet, vitamins and other nutritional supplements and how they effect children with communication and or sensory integration disorders

Kids Domain - Freeware & Shareware Computer Programs

 Labelling Tutor - teaches subjects as letters, shapes, numbers, colors, objects, body parts, gender, actions, places, categories, emotions and many others

  California Department of Education - Special Education Division - Posts information on current and pending legislature, budget appropriations concerning special education students, and general information on California's responsibilities to students with special needs and how they are complying with the IDEA97

  The Special Education Homepage - A comprehensive list of online resources dealing with practically every issue in special education.

 TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children) - Treatment and Education of Austistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children

 Kids Together - Information on IEP planning

 Parental Rights in Special Education - From the Iowa Department of Education

 The International Journal of Inclusive Education - A Quarterly International Research Journal

 The Early Childhood Inclusion Network - One communities efforts to promote childcare inclusion

 Advocates 4 Special Kids - Friendship Group/Circle of Friends - Writing goals for social skills in IEP's.

 Advocates 4 Special Kids - a non-profit association of whose team offers services to parents, professionals, and adults of children with special needs and learning disabilities. We offer training in IDEA '97, Section 504 and advocate for disabled children's right for a free and appropriate education under the law.

 Special Education Law (US) - Special Education Legal Rights and Strategies

 Wrights Law (US) - Special Education Law and Advocacy

  Wrights Law Law Library (US) - Copy of IDEA etc

 PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) - PACER is a non-profit organisation that helps parents and families of children with disabilities

 Family & Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE) - The Partnership is a project which aims to inform and educate families and advocates about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 and promising practices

 LRP Publications - IDEA Regulations, "A User's Guide to the 1999 IDEA Regulations" by the Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy

 A Guide to the Individualized Education Program - From the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services U.S. Department of Education

 Packard Children's Hospital - The Ketogenic Diet

  Achievable Concepts - Adapted recreation and sporting equipment for people with disabilities and the aged.

 New Visions - New Visions provides continuing education and therapy services to professionals and parents working with infants and children with feeding, swallowing, oral-motor, and pre-speech problems.

Waiver programs are options that states can participate in if they wish. Most states have some type if Medicaid waiver program - but they are not required to do so. A waiver program allows a state to "waive" certain federal restrictions for Medicaid for a particular population they want to serve.
Some states have several different waivers that are diagnosis- specific - such as Traumatic Brain Injury, Technology Dependent, etc. Most of these programs are now referred to as Home and Community Based Waivers.

 Family Voices - The Katie Beckett & 1115 Waivers

 Family Voices - Individual State Information

 National Association for Medicaid Directors

 National Association for Medicaid Directors - Background Information on Waivers with links to contact information

 National Association for Medicaid Directors - Chart of all waivers state by state with eligibility

 National Association for Medicaid Directors - Services included under waivers

  OT Kids Inc - A handwriting resource for parents and teachers

  Oticon - Support for families and educators of hearing impaired children and information on Oticon products.

  Exceptional Parent

  Rx Drug List - The Internet Drug Index

 The Mozart Effect - On Line Resources on music/brain research

The American Pseudo-obstruction and Hirschprung's Disease Society (APHS) - APHS addresses the needs of individuals affected by gastrointestinal motility disorders.

  The National Information Centre for Youth and Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) - US based NICHCY is a national information and referral center that provides information on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. Their special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).

  Kids Together - Information and resources for children and adults with disabilities

 disABILITY Information and Resources - Links to a number of information and resource web sites for those with a disAbBILITY

  National Parent Network on Disabilities (NPND) - A non profit organisation dedicated to providing a presence and national voice to ALL families of children, youth and adults with disabilities.

 The Apraxia - Kids Website - A comprehensive site for information on developmental apraxia of speech (verbal dyspraxia) and children's speech and language topics, including evaluation, therapy and other childhood communication topics.

 MEDEK - MEDEK is a therapeutic intervention for the development of gross motor skills in children with movement disorders. MEDEK was developed in Caracas by physical therapist Ramon Cuevas. It was introduced to North America by physical therapist Ester Fink. MEDEK stands for Metodo Dinamico de Estimulacion Kinesica or Dynamic Method for Kinetic Stimulation.

Getting Organised

 Teaching Children about disabilities