Information Center on Disabilities and Gifted Education

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Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD)

• Attention deficit disorders (ADD)
• Attention deficit disorders (ADD) and legal issues
• Attention deficit disorders (ADD) and ritalin
• Gifted students and attention deficit disorders

Developmental Disabilities

• Autism
• Asperger syndrome
• Cerebral palsy
• Down syndrome
• Epilepsy
• Mental retardation
• Sex education for students with disabilities

Early Childhood

• Assessment issues in early childhood special education
• Early childhood models/demonstration programs
• Early intervention and family involvement
• Inclusive practices in early childhood settings
• Teaching strategies for early childhood special education settings

Inclusion/Mainstreaming

• Collaboration between regular and special education teachers
• Costs of special education vs regular education classes
• Gifted students in the regular education (inclusive) classroom (grouping practices)
• Including students with severe disabilities
• Inclusive practices in early childhood settings
• Long-term effects of inclusive programs
• Mainstreaming/inclusion
• Pros and cons of inclusion

Instruction in Content Areas

• Adapted physical education
• Art activities and students with disabilities
• Foreign language instruction for students with learning disabilities
• Lesson plans for students with disabilities
• Life skills for students with mental retardation
• Music for students with disabilities
• Sex education for students with disabilities
• Science for students with disabilities
• Social studies for students with learning disabilities
• Writing skills for students with disabilities

Instruction/Management

• Alternate assessments for students with disabilities
• Assistive technology
• Collaboration between regular and special education teachers
• Class size in special education
• Lesson plans for students with disabilities
• Home schooling
• Managing disruptive students in the classroom
• Mediation as an alternative to due process procedures
• Paraprofessionals in the classroom
• School discipline
• School-to-work transition
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Sensory integration
• Supplementary and related services in special education
• Teaching postsecondary students with learning disabilities

Learning Disabilities

• Adults with learning disabilities
• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia
• Foreign language requirements in high school and students with learning disabilities
• Gifted students and learning disabilities
• Identifying learning disabilities in culturally diverse students
• Learning disabilities
• Teaching postsecondary students with learning disabilities

Mental Health

• Behavior disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Emotional disturbances
• Oppositional defiant disorder

 

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