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[|Diversity in Children's Lives]
this resource shares titles of books that celebrate children's differences

[|Tots 'n Tech]
The Tots 'n Tech Research Institute (TnT) is an inter-university collaboration between Thomas Jefferson University (TJU), Philadelphia and Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe.

Great Sites on Preschool Inclusion
An administrator’s guide to preschool inclusion http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~publicationsoffice/pdfs/AdmGuide.pdf Child Care Plus ** http://www.ccplus.org ** Circle of inclusion ** [] ** Early childhood research institute on inclusion ** [] ** Family-Guided Routines-Based Intervention ** http://fgrbi.fsu.edu/ ** Federation for Children with Special Needs ** http://www.fcsn.org ** Kids Together, Inc. ** http://www.kidstogether.org/inc.htm ** National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY** ) http://www.nichcy.org ** Planning with families for evaluation and assessment ** http://cte.jhu.edu/courses/IFSP

Specific Websites daeling with the 13 Catergories of Disabilities **
 * 1) **Autism**
 * A developmental disability that can affect the verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and can have a negative affet the child's education. The prevalence of autism is 1 in 150 as determined by the CDC or Center for Disease Control.

2. **Other Health Impaired** (OHI):
 * The child exhibits limited strength, alertness, due to chronic or acute health problems, including but not limited to asthma, ADD/ADHD, cancer, diabetes, which negatively affects the child's education.

3. **Mental Retardation: **
 * Defined as significantly below average general functioning, with deficits in adaptive behavior, which negatively affects the child's education.

4. **Emotional Disturbance ** (ED):
 * Exhibits one of the following conditions over an extended period of time and these conditions negatively effect a child's education. An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors. For a child to be ED they are not supposed to have any other type of disability negative affecting their education.

5. **Deafness **: 6. **Hearing Impairment **:
 * Residual hearing is severely impaired in processing the spoken word, negatively affecting the child's education.
 * Exhibits a hearing loss that is permanent or fluctuating, which even with amplification negatively affects the child's education.

7. **Visual Impairment **: 8. **Deaf-Blindness **:
 * Impairment is such that educational potential cannot be fulfilled without special services and materials.
 * [|Facts about Sight Loss]
 * [] An Information Clearinghouse on Blindness & Visual Impairment
 * Child has both hearing and visual disabilities.

9. Specific Learning Disability (LD): Exhibits a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological process (such as visual, motor, language etc) which negatively affects a child's education. 10. Multiple Disabilities: The child exhibits two or more severe disabilities, one of which is mental retardation. 11. Orthopedic Impairment: Displays severe impairments that are the result of congenital anomaly, developmental, or other causes (such as CP) which negatively affects the child's education. 12. Speech or Language Impairment: Exhibits a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a receptive and/or expressive language disorder, that negatively affects the child's education. 13. Traumatic Brain Injury: The child has an injury to their brain resulting in total or partial functional disability.

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