Massachusetts Links:
Dover Public Schools Special Education Parent Advisory Group Website
Learning Disabilities Association of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Association of Special education Parent Advisory Councils (MASSPAC)
Massachusetts Department of Education
New England INDEX-Information on Disabilities
National Links:
All Kinds of Minds (Mel Levine's web site)
Asperger's Syndrome Coalition of the United States (ASC-US)
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Council for Exceptional Children
Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC-EECE)
Federation for Children With Special Needs
Learning Disabilities Association of America
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Nonverbal Learning Disorders Association
Reading Resource Links:
International Dyslexia Association
International Reading Association
National Institute for Literacy
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Report of the National Reading Panel-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Graphic Organizer Forms to download
Books:
Keeping A Head in School by Dr. Mel Levine, 1994, Educator's Publishing Service, Inc. 31 Smith Place, Cambridge, MA 02138-1000
Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Reading Success by the National Research Council; M. Susan Burns, Peg Griffin and Catherine E. snow, Editors; National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1999
Straight Talk About Reading, (How Parents Can Make a Difference During the Early Years) by Susan l. Hall and Louisa C. Moats, Ed. D.; Contemporary Books, Chicago, IL; 1999.
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003.
Put Reading First, Kindergarten Through Grade 3 (Drawn from the 2000 report of the National Reading Panel, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction--Reports of the Subgroups). Free copies available at: The National Institute for Literacy at ED Pubs, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398; phone: 1-800-228-8813; FAX: 301-430-1244; EdPubOrders@aspensys.com; to download, go the the National Institute for Literacy website at www.nifl.gov.
Put Reading First, A Parent Guide (Drawn from the 2000 report of the National Reading Panel, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction--Reports of the Subgroups). Free copies available at: The National Institute for Literacy at ED Pubs, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398; phone: 1-800-228-8813; FAX: 301-430-1244; EdPubOrders@aspensys.com; to download, go the the National Institute for Literacy website at www.nifl.gov.
Other Resources:
"Lively Letters" (Telian Multisensory Mnemonic Letter Card Program) by Nancy Telian, Telian Learning Concepts, P.O. Box 453, Stoughton, MA 02072
Speech and Language:
Useful Links:
Stuttering Foundation of America
Books:
From Speech to Print, Language Essentials for Teachers by Louisa Cook Moats; Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD; 2000.
