TOPIC: Special Education: Individuals with Disabilities and Accommodations/Inclusion

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Policy Brief
• Enhancing Student/Learning Supports in Classrooms
• Enhancing Professional Development to Better Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• A look at California Assembly Bill 114: Transition of Special Education and Related Services Formerly Provided by County Mental Health Agencies
• Matching Students and Instruction: The Dilemma of Grouping Students

Introductory Packet
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
• Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Resource Aid Packet
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role

Technical Aid Packet
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schools

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Continuing Education Module
• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Personalizing Learning and Addressing Barriers to Learning: Two Continuing Education Units
• Preparing All Education Personnel to Address Barriers to Learning & Teaching
• Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
• Using Federal Education Legislation in Moving Towards a Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approach to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Practice Notes
• About Motivation
• About Peer Contagion Effects
• Countering the Over-pathologizing of Students' Feelings & Behavior: A Growing Concern Related to MH in Schools
• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care
• Helping and Socialization
• Implementing Response to Intervention in Context
• Improving Working Relationships Inside the Classroom
• Interviewing and Monitoring Tools
• Learning Supports: Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Notes on Transition Planning for College
• The MTSS Continuum: Essential but Not Comprehensive Enough – How to make it Better
• Prereferral Interventions
• Responses to Intervention
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Supporting Students Experiencing Adjustment Problems as School Starts
• Turning Big Classes into Smaller Units
• Volunteers as an Invaluable Resource
• Working with Disengaged Students

Guides to Practice
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School-Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment
• Determinants of Students’ Problems
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• The Relationship of Response to Intervention and Systems of Learning Supports
• RTI and Classroom & Schoolwide Learning Supports: A Guide for Teachers and Learning Supports Staff

Information Resource
• About Diagnosing Selective Mutism Among English Language Learners
• About Neurodiversity
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• Arguments About Whether Overdiagnosis of ADHD is a Significant Problem
• Enhancing Classroom Teachers? Capacity to Successfully Engage All Students in Learning: It?s the Foundation of Learning Supports
• Just a Label? Some Pros and Cons of Formal Diagnoses of Children
• A Personal Look at a Student’s Selective Mutism
• Questions Parents Ask and Some Concerns About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Schools and the Challenge of LD and ADHD Misdiagnoses
• A Sociological View of the Increase in ADHD Diagnoses
• What are Parents told about Autism on the Internet?

Quick Training Aid
• Re-engaging Students in Learning
• Attention Problems in School

HotIssue
• Special Education Disputes Continue to Reflect the Many Issues that Permeate the Field

Quick Find
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)
• Day Treatment
• Early Intervention
• Educating Children With Autism
• Emotionally Disturbed Children
• Environments that Support Learning
• Learning Problems & Disabilities
• Systems of Care

Quarterly ejournal/newsletter
• Countering LD and ADHD False Positive Diagnoses: Another Pandemic Challenge
• Response to Intervention
• CSSS - Hawai`i's Comprehensive Student Support System... a multifaceted approach that encompasses & enhances MH in schools.
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom
• Evidence-Based Practices in Schools: Concerns About Fit and Implementation
• Opening the Classroom Door
• Reengaging Students in Learning at School
• Rethinking How Schools Address Student Misbehavior & Disengagement
• Revisiting Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities

Publications
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Beyond Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment : The Concept of Least Intervention Needed and the Need for Continuum of Community-school Programs/Services
• Personalizing Classroom Instruction To Account For Motivational and Developmental Differences
• Rethinking School Psychology (Commentary on Public Health Framework Series)
• Revisiting Learning & Behavior Problems: Moving Schools Forward
• School-Wide Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teachin
• Social-emotional well-being of students with disabilities: The importance of student support staff

Net Exchange
• Special Education Concerns