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COPE Weblinks
General Information and Resources
Parent Educator Resource Library provides a wealth of material that can be loaned out to anyone in the school district.
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
The Advocacy Center This agency advocates, educates, and supports people with disabilities.
Rick Lavoie -information and inspiration for parents and teachers of children with Learning Disabilities
Yellow Pages for Kids - Find educational consultants, psychologists, educational diagnosticians, health care providers, academic & speech therapists, advocates, attorneys, learning centers, treatment programs, parent groups, grassroots organizations, & Gov. Programs for children with disabilities.
Wright's Law provides a wealth of information on the special education law & advocacy
Schwab Learning A parent's guide for children with learning disabilities.
All Kinds of Minds Dr. Mel Levine's website for understanding learning differences.
Council for Exceptional Children - Special Education Division
New York State Offices of Vocational and Educational Services
Dr. Greene Online covers more than 1500 pediatric health topics.
Healthfinder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government.
Children's Hospital of Seattle has excellent resources and links.
Speech and Language
National Coalition for Auditory Processing Disorders
The American Academy of Audiology
American Speech-Language Hearing Association
Stuttering Foundation of America
ADD/ADHD
Greater Rochester ADD Association
Children and Adults with ADHD, Org
The William Gladden Foundation has excellent free articles on topics including ADHD, OCD, and anxiety.
Learning Disabilities
Learning Disability Association of America
LD Online
International Dyslexia Foundation
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Neurological Differences
Autism Society of America
Asperger OASIS offers many resources regarding Asperger Syndrome.
Access Autism Indiana Resource Center for Autism
Tourette Syndrome Association
Epilepsy Foundation
DANA Alliance for Brain Initiatives can guide you to almost any information. In particular, they maintain an annotated listing of Web sites and support groups which you can search by diagnosis.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is a database of public information on a wide range of neurological disorders, organized simply by diagnosis.
University of Michigan Child Neurology contains extensive listings relevant to professionals and patients. Check out their mailing list for parents.
Child Neurology Foundation is an advocacy program for pediatric neurological issues.
Other Health Issues
Behavior Advisor
Internet Mental Health has a very effective pharmacy section as well as other resources about neurological and psychiatric conditions
The Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
National Organization for Rare Diseases
Brain Injury Association of America
National Neurofibromatosis Foundation
Family Support
Visiting Ours is a wonderful, unique, and easy to use website for keeping families up to date about a loved one's illness.
Parent to Parent This site offers support for parents of children with special needs.
Through the Looking Glass maintains links for parents and children with disabilities.
Family Village A community of disability –related resources, maintains an absolutely wonderful guide to everything of use to people with disabilities.
T.I.E.S. Together Including Every Student - our local coordinator is Jeanne Panek
These are links suggested by members of COPE's Steering Committee. If you have discovered a great website you'd like to share, click here to email your suggestions.
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