Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Individual educational plan (IEP)
Intellectual disabilities
Least restrictive environment (LRE)
Learning disabilities
Mental retardation
Portfolio assessment
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Sensory impairment
Transition planning
Visual impairment
On the internet
Each of the following websites represents an organization focused on the needs of people with one particular type of disability. Each includes free access to archives of non-current journals and other publications, as well as information about conferences, professional training events, and political news relevant to persons with disabilities. (Note that the sponsoring organizations about hearing loss and about intellectual disabilities changed their names recently, though not their purposes, so their websites may eventually change names as well.)
< www.ldanatl.org > This is primarily about learning disabilities, but also somewhat about ADHD.
< www.add.org > This website is primarily about ADHD. Note that its website name uses an older terminology for this disability, ADD (no “H”) for attention deficit disorder (with the term hyperactivity).
< www.shhh.org > This one primarily discusses about hearing loss .
< www.navh.org >This website is primarily about visual impairment.
< www.aamr.org >This one is primarily about intellectual disabilities or mental retardation.
References
Algozzine, R.&Ysseldyke, J. (2006). Teaching students with emotional disturbance: A practical guide for every teacher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
American Association on Mental Retardation. (2002). Definition, classification, and system of supports, 10 th edition. Washington, D.C.: Author.
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, DSM-IV-TR (text revision). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association.
Biklen, S.&Kliewer, C. (2006). Constructing competence: Autism, voice and the “disordered” body. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 10(2/3), 169-188.
Bogdan, D., Attfield, R., Bissonnette, L., Blackman, L., Burke, J., Mukopadhyay, T.,&Rubin, S. (Eds.). (2005). Autism: The myth of the person alone. New York: New York University Press.
Bogdan, D. (2006). Who may be literate? Disability and resistance to the cultural denial of competence. American Educational Research Journal, 43(2), 163-192.
Bradley, M.&Mandell, D. (2005). Oppositional defiant disorder: A systematic review of the evidence of intervention effectiveness. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 34(1), 343-365.
Carothers, D.&Taylor, R. (2003). Use of portfolios for students with autism. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disorders, 18(2), 121-124.
Chamberlain, S. (2005). Recognizing and responding to cultural differences in the education of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Intervention in School and Clinic, 40(4), 195-211.
Green, S., Davis, C., Karshmer, E., March, P.&Straight, B. (2005). Living stigma: The impact of labeling, stereotyping, separation, status loss, and discrimination in the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. Sociological Inquiry, 75(2), 197-215.