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__//​//__ 1. Support for families of children with disabilities Internet resources for parents of children with disabilities __ [] __   This is a great website for any parent or even any person trying to learn more about children with disabilities. This website provides many links to further educate people about the health of these children who have a disability, the different types of disabilities, parent sites, mental health sites, transitions sites, and even different education sites. This website even offers these things in Spanish for those who may have that linguistic background. This website is very resourceful for anyone who is looking for helpful hints on how to deal with a child with a learning disability. Even if this website doesn’t provide you with the information you need then it has links for other sites that will.   2. Our-Kids Devoted to raising special kids with special needs __ [] __   This website is about kids that have learning disabilities and special needs. This is a great website because it provides useful information about how to help these particular children. This website also give examples of different stories of real families that have children with some of the different disabilities and they share the different ways they deal with their child and they give tips to help other families that have children facing the same issues with their disability. This website also allows people that have a child with a disability to communicate with each other so that they can exchange helpful tips to better help their child. Teachers and families that are dealing with a child with a disability would find this website very useful and helpful.   3. Kidsource online __ [] __<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> This is the perfect website if you are looking to research and learn more information about a child with a disability. This website would be extremely helpful to families as well as educators. It contains many different links in order to provide its users with whatever information they may need to find out about children and different disabilities. There are links that allow you to find out information on how to improve and better allow technology access to students with disabilities for educational purposes, links created by doctors that explains more about their disability, and the website even includes links specified for each particular disability in order to research more information about a particular learning disability and even how to help that child learn better. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> 4. LD.org The national center for learning disabilities <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> __  []  __ <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> This is a great website that provides parents and educators with more information about children with learning disabilities, explains the different steps to take, and how to help these children. The website provides tutorials and definitions about the different disabilities that children may have. It also have many different useful links for better access to the exact topic you may be trying to research and find more information about. This website also contains a special link for parents unsure of exactly what to do next for their child with the learning disability that says “get the help your child needs.” This website even has a link that says “why my child attends his own IEP meetings” which allows these children to give feedback about their own progress in school. I think websites like this are great because it provides helpful information about children with disabilities but also allows people as well as the children to provide feedback about their own personal experiences that may be helpful for other users. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> 5. EMSTAC __<span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> [] __<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> Elementary and middle schools technical assistance center <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> It’s no secret that children with disabilities face enormous challenges, however when these children come from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, these challenges are multiplies. This website not only contains information about organizations that offer projects to help and benefit children with special needs but also provides information about children with this disability and their family’s challenges they face. This is a helpful website that provides great useful information about children with disabilities from different cultures and can help people get involved in their community to help these organizations and the children they are supporting. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> 6. SAGE journals online <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> __  []  __ <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> This website explains how important it is to be sensitive towards children who have a disability and are from a different culture or who speak a different language. These children are facing many challenges in the classroom and it is necessary that they are provided with special help and support. The website is great for teachers and families who just need to learn more information about these particular types of children. It provides different information submitted by different professionals about children facing this issue in articles called journals. This website just provides people who want to know more information about children facing disabilities who are from a different culture and speak another language with valid and useful information on how to help these children. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> 7. Learning Point associates North central regional educational laboratory Critical issue: meeting the diverse needs of young children __<span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> [] __<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> This is a great website that provides statistics for the increasing ethnic race and the children who have disabilities within these different cultures. This website has many different links its users can click on to view more information about a particular topic they are searching for. Such as information about children with special needs, federal laws relating to children with disabilities, students with these disabilities in the classroom, questions and answers and so much more. This would really be useful and quite helpful to teachers who have these types of children in their classroom and it would also be helpful for anyone just trying to gain more knowledge about this topic. It explains there is already a large percent of culturally diverse children in classrooms and the number of these children with learning disabilities continues to rise, so therefore it is important that American school to be prepared and knowledgeable about this topic so they are prepared if they get this type of student in their classroom. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> 8. NCSET __<span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> [] __<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> This website contains great information about children with disabilities who are culturally diverse. It provides information about the challenges they face and how to help them in the classroom. This website addresses the needs of these students, provides the different challenges they may face and how to address each challenge. NCSET.org is useful for teachers and parents that are dealing with children who are culturally diverse and dealing with a disability because it tells you helpful ways to solve certain challenges these children are facing in and outside the classroom. This website even provides statistics by showing the percentages of children that have different disabilities within each race. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">