California School-to-Work Interagency Transition Partnership
(http://www.sna.com/switp/)
Click on "It's
About Your Life" to view a four-step life-planning process designed for
students with disabilities. The site also
includes links to organizations that can provide information and
assistance. The School-to-Careers Resources page
at http://www.sna.com/switp/stcbutton.htm features "disABILITY-specific"
links. A separate disability resources page at
http://www.sna.com/switp/drbutton.htm contains about 40 links to advocacy and assistive sites.
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
(http://scov.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/CRESPAR.html)
View 30 technical
reports relating to early
education, elementary, middle and high school interventions, among others. The site also
has information on career exploration programs and career academies.
Special Education Resources on the Internet
(http://www.hood.edu/seri/)
This collection of 22 links to special needs topics
includes parents and educators' resources at
http://www.hood.edu/seri/parents.htm and transition resources at
http://www.hood.edu/seri/trans.htm.
Policymaker Partnership for Implementing IDEA
(http://www.ideapolicy.org/)
Devoted to
the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Amendments of 1997 (IDEA '97), the site has downloadable copies of IDEA '97 regulations, plus
briefs and commentaries written by federal employees and other experts in
the field. Since IDEA '97 greatly increases academic and career and technical
teachers' roles in developing students' Individual Education Plans (IEPs), this site may be of value to all secondary educators.
University of Wisconsin's Center on Education and Work
(http://www.cew.wisc.edu/nidrr/)
Find information about a federally funded project that focuses on two-year colleges that effectively educate special needs students. The site's main page has information
about colleges involved in the study as well as numerous links to
publications, organizations and resources for career and technical special needs educators.
National Association of Vocational Education Special Needs Personnel
(http://www.erc.mk.psu.edu/navesnp.htm)
This affiliate of the Special
Needs Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education (http://www.acteonline.org/aboutspecial.html) publishes the Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education. The
tables of contents for recent issues can be found at
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/jvsne/.
This "NET Gain" was compiled by John Gugerty (Center on Education and Work,
University of Wisconsin-Madison), and David Carlson and Peter Seidman
(NCRVE, University of California at Berkeley). An online version of this
column is available at
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/. Readers are encouraged to let the
authors know about any changes in the resources listed, as well as about
other resources they find useful.
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