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- The Preventing Violence and Responding to Violent Incidents In Schools Guide was developed in 1999 as a supplement to A Guide For Crisis Management DoDDS-Europe June 1995.
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- A Guide For Crisis Management In The Schools, DoDDS-Europe, December 2001 is the revised supplement to D.S. Manual 2943.0, DoDDS School Action Plan for Crisis Intervention and Response to Death, February 1, 1990. To view this guide, clickhere.
- American Association of Suicidology
- The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
- The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
- The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) is an education and research organization didicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children. The Vanderbilt ADHD Toolkit can be found at this site.
- Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
- The Rating Form-Initial
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- Military Student web site has information and resources for military children in two age groups, six to 12, and 13 and older. There are also sections for parents, military leaders, special-needs families and educators.
- Military One Source is one source for getting information about a myriad of topics.
- An A to Z directory offers easy-to-understand information on a wide range of health topics.
- FirstGov.gov is the official web portal of the U.S. government, so the information is credible, official, and timely. There’s information about infants, children, teenagers, adults and elders.
- Discipline Help is a reference for handling over 117 misbehaviors at school and home.
- KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.
- Fragile X Syndrome
- ASHA-American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
- Military Parent Support Organization
- National Down's Syndrome Congress
- Stuttering Foundation of America
- Alternative for Autism, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, Learning Problems
- National Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.
- Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
- DoDDS-Europe Special Education Resource Directory: A Guide to Education and Technology Resources on the World Wide Web
IDEA Practices- Comprehensive information about requirements and implementation of IDEA
- National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- Internet resource for Special children.
Welcome to Holland
by
Emily Perl Kingsley
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability-to
try to help people who have not shared the unique experience to understand
it, to imagine how it would feel. Its’ like this: When you’re going
to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip-to Italy.
You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans.
The Coliseum. Michelangelo’s “David.” The gondolas in Venice. You may learn
some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You
pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands.
The flight attendant comes and says, “Welcome to Holland.”
“Holland?” you say. “What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for Italy!
I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to
Italy.”
But there’s been a change in the flight plans. They’ve landed in
Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting,
filthy place full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a
different place.
So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. You must learn a whole
new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would
never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy
than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your
breath, you look around and you begin to notice that Holland has tulips,
Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they’re
all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest
of your life, you will say, “Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s
what I had planned.”
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away, because the loss of
that dream is a very significant loss.
But if you spend you life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy,
you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things
about Holland.
- Coping with Military Ways
- Books for Brats address issues that affect military children and present military children and their diverse families as the STARS of their books.
- MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the official Department of Defense web site for reliable Quality of Life information designed to help troops and their families, leaders and service providers. Whether you live the military lifestyle or support those who do, you'll find what you need!
- Air Force Crossroads is dedicated to the building of community among Air Force members and their families through more efficient and effective ways – while maintaining the community that is Crossroads.
Link to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
- National Education Association Health Information Network
- Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
- National Mental Health Information Center
- GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, now in its 10th year, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for ALL students.
- Teaching Tolerance provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond.
- The Bullying Awareness Network provides information to help people better understand bullying behavior, the consequences, and how it might be prevented.
- National Inhalant Prevention Coalition is a public-private effort to promote awareness and recognition of the under publicized problem of inhalant use.
- The Ed PUBS online ordering system is intended to help you identify and order U.S. Department of Education products. All publications are provided at no cost to the general public by the U.S. Department of Education.
What
Do School Psychologists Do?
School
Psychologists tailor their services to the particular needs of each child
and each situation. School Psychologists use many different approaches
and may play many different roles, but most provide these core services:
Consultation-
- give healthy and effective alternatives to teachers, parents, and administrators about problems in learning and behavior
- help others understand child development and how it affects learning and behavior
- strengthen working relationships between educators, parents and community services
Assessment-
Use a wide variety of techniques at an individual, group, and systems level
to evaluate:
- academic skills and cognitive abilities
- personality and emotional development
- social skills
- learning environments and school climate
- eligibility for special services
Intervention
- work face-to-face with children and families
- help solve conflicts and problems in learning and adjustment
- provide psychological counseling for children and families
- provide social skills training, behavior management, and other strategies
Prevention
- identify potential learning difficulties
- design programs for children at risk of academic failure
- provide parents and teachers with the skills to cope with disruptive behavior
- help foster tolerance, understanding and appreciation of diversity in the school community
- develop school-wide initiative to make schools safer and more effective
Education on
topics such as:
- teaching and learning strategies
- behavior management techniques
- working with students who have disabilities or unusual talents
- crisis management
- child development
- mental health issues in the schools
Health
Care Provision
- collaborate with school and community-based personnel to provide a comprehensive model of school-linked health services
- work with children and families to provide integrated community services focusing on psychosocial wellness and health-related issues
- develop partnerships with parents and teachers to create healthy school environments.
- Aspergers Syndrome
- Families for Early Autism Treatment
- Autism Resources
- Autism Biomedical Information Network
- DoDEA Autism Best Practices Guide -Sept 2002
- The UK Autism Society exists to increase awareness of autism, together with well established and newly developed approaches in the diagnosis, assessment, education and treatment. The society offers training courses and workshops on TEACCH, Social Stories, Shoebox tasks, etc.
- First Signs, Inc. is a national non-profit organization dedicated to educating parents and pediatric professionals about the early warning signs of autism and other developmental disorders.
- Autism consultant, Susan Stokes, has authored six articles on autism.
- National Coaliation Against Domestic Violence
- Prevent Child Abuse America
- Childhelp USA- ChildhelpUSA exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. Their efforts are focused on treatment, prevention and research.
- Break the Cycle provides domestic violence prevention and early intervention services to youth ages 12 to 24 through three programs: The Education & Outreach Program, the Legal Services Program and the Peer Leadership Program.
- Because I Love You- “Because I Love You” is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting parents with troubled children of any age. They help parents deal with drugs, runaways, truancy, verbal and physical abuse, curfew, dress codes and the problem friends.
- Tough Love- TOUGHLOVE International is a non-profit, self-help organization that provides ongoing education and active support to families, empowering parents and young people to accept responsibility for their actions. They believe that drug and alcohol abuse, family violence, teen pregnancy, suicide, family dissolution, school drop-outs, and runaways are problems created and maintained by the culture in which we live.
- Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
- American Social Health Association's special web site for teens.
- “Families are Talking” helps families talk about sexuality-related issues and provides information and resources for young people, parents and caregivers.
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