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Special Education Online

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Searching Library Databases & Catalogs

To search catalogs or databases for information on special education, consider the following terms. (Avoid the term "inclusion," as it has many meanings besides special needs applications.)

  • special educationA Lesley professor and students
  • inclusive schools
  • mainstreaming
  • adaptive curriculum
  • normalization
  • resource room programs
  • individualized educational programs

Several Library databases offer resources on special education and the needs of people with disabilities:

  • Library Databases
    Access the databases through the myLibrary tab in myLesley. Need help? Go to "Get Started."
    • Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Wilson OmniFile are Multi-disciplinary databases that offer many special education journals full-text. They are great places to start.
    • Ethnic Newswatch offers full-text articles from ethnic publications around the world.
    • ERIC is the most comprehensive source of references in education. Offers citations and abstracts for over 1 million items, with full text for bibliographies and ERIC Digests. ERIC also links to some full-text articles from other databases as well as full-text ERIC documents. For best results, do not limit to either full-text or Lesley holdings. For instructions, go to http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/ERICdocs.html.
    • ProQuest Education Journals: This database covers the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. More than 600 in full text. Coverage goes back to the early 1990s.
  • Ludcke Library FLO Catalog
    http://endeavor.flo.org/

    • Search the FLO Catalog to learn about books, journals, videos, and teaching resources on special education topics.

  • Massachusetts Prevention Center Library System
    http://www.rchcweblibrary.org/

    Massachusetts Prevention Center Libraries specialize in up-to-date prevention and health education materials to meet the needs of high risk and special education students, grades K-12. Resources include videos and films; books, journals and pamphlets; multilingual and multicultural resources; on-line database for resource libraries across the nation; health curricula and training manuals; video captioning and large-print devices. Members of the public are welcome to visit and borrow materials. They are located in Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Lawrence, Worcester, and Holyoke.

Web Guides

Online guide to resources in special education, including full-text documents, and links to other web sites. Special topics include special education law, inclusive schools, and special education lesson plans.

"CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas...[including] education, directories and databases, statistics, government documents, computer access, legal, publications, WWW, bibliographic references, aging, politics, universal design and announcements."

The CDR "advances the rights of people with disabilities. The Council promotes public policy and legislation, public awareness through education, and provides information and referral services."

"The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice."

  • National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities: A-Z Topics
    http://www.nichcy.org/resources/default.asp

    An extensive collection of well-organized and helpfully annotated resource pages on a wide range of topics.

This comprehensive web site on learning disabilities offers background information, articles, videos, a referral directory, first person experiences, children’s artwork and writing, and a large collection of annotated links.

Hot Spots for The Classroom

Search for ASL signs and view them through Quick Time video.

This delightful, interactive site invites children to understand the experience of chronic illness and disabilities.

This Web site is "for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight. "

Follow the guided tour to visit two exemplary integrated classrooms for young children.

Assessment

Rich resource for identifying tests and sources of test reviews.

A full text journal with articles on all aspects of assessment.

Full-text descriptions of many assessment tools--searchable.

Links to test and assessment resources, offered on the superb web pages of Margaret Sylvia, a librarian at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX.

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updated 07/02/08 | 03:50 PM
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