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Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
This federal law contains requirements for ensuring equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, State and local government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telephone services.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

The Center for Community Inclusion at University of Maine
Contains several projects and many resources and links which are targeted at early childhood services.
http://www.umaine.edu/cci/

The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
The Center is dedicated to a policy of collaboration at Federal, state, and local levels that contributes to and facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about effective practices.
http://www.air.org/cecp

The Center for Inclusive Child Care (CICC)
A resource network for promoting and supporting inclusive early childhood and school-age programs and providers.
http://www.projectexceptional.org/

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
A national center focused improving the social and emotional outcomes of young children. Evidence-based, user-friendly information is available to help early childhood educators meet the needs of children with challenging behaviors and mental health challenges. Products include "What Works Briefs" (summaries of effective practices), and five training modules on Promoting Social and Emotional Competence - Building Relationships, Social-Emotional Teaching Strategies, Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior, Developing a Behavior Support Plan, Leadership Strategies, and Addressing Challenging Behavior.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/

Child Care Plus
Focuses on expanded child care options for children with disabilities and their families, and provides training and technical assistance for child care providers and other early childhood professionals. Two of the products are a curriculum on inclusion and the Keeping Everyone in Early Childhood Programs (KEEP) for children with challenging behaviors .
http://www.ccplus.org/

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Circle of Inclusion
For early childhood service providers and families of young children. Contains various resources related to inclusion for young children (to age 8). Spanish, Korean and Japanese in addition to English. Includes articles, adaptations and modification ideas, children’s literature relating to disabilities, ideas for inclusive classrooms and links.
http://www.circleofinclusion.org/

Disability is Natural
Developed by Kathie Snow, the parent of a child with disabilities. The mission of this website is to encourage new ways of thinking about disability and to help create a society in which all people are valued and included.
http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/index.htm

Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion
National research project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education to study the inclusion of preschool children with disabilities in typical preschool, child care and community settings.
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ecrii

Everyday Children's Learning Opportunities Institute
Information includes a broad range of topics on young children's everyday learning opportunities and natural learning environments for children from birth to six years of age.
http://everydaylearning.info/index.php

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Exemplary Models of Services and Best Practices
Descriptions of several Exemplary Models of Services and Best Practices from the Center on Disability and Community Inclusion at the University of Vermont.
http://www.uvm.edu/~cdci/

Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System (FDLRS)
Provides diagnostic and instructional support services. Centers collaborate with districts, agencies, communities and other personnel and educational entities, providing education and support for teachers, parents, therapists, school administrators, and students with exceptionalities. Each Center includes specialists in the areas of Child Find, Parent Services, Human Resource Development (HRD), and Technology.
http://www.paec.org/fdlrsweb/index.htm

Florida Head Start
Head Start and its components (Preschool Head Start, Migrant Head Start, American Indian Head Start and Early Head Start) are comprehensive child development programs which serve children from birth to age 5, pregnant women, and their families. They are child-focused programs and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.
http://www.floridaheadstart.org/about.html

Florida Inclusion Network (FIN)
Provides learning opportunities, consultation, information and support to educators, families, and community members to promote and support inclusive educational opportunities throughout the state of Florida.
http://www.floridainclusionnetwork.com/

Florida LEA Profiles (Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services)
Provides information and data for Local Education Agencies (LEA) on exceptional student education in each of the counties in the State of Florida.
http://www.fldoe.org/ese/datapage.asp

Florida’s Professional Development Partnerships
Florida's Professional Development Partnerships are designed to increase the capacity of Florida's school districts to recruit, prepare, and retain sufficient numbers of highly qualfied personnel to provide effective instructional and related services to children with disabilities (ages three through 21) and their families. This page provide information regarding professional development and state and national links to assist in professional development
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/cspd/

IDEA Website
Provides searchable versions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the regulations, access to cross-referenced content from other laws (e.g., the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), etc.), video clips on selected topics, topic briefs on selected regulations, links to OSEP's Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network and other resources related to the law.
http://idea.ed.gov/

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Inclusive Education
Designed for general and special education teachers, parents, and school staff around supporting inclusive education. Resources for making accommodations are included as well as links to other web sites and resource lists for learning more about inclusive education.
http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/index.html

The Inclusion Network
A group of individuals and organizations linked together to raise awareness and provide technical assistance. Click on the INCLUSION MESSAGE BOARD, where you can post a question or look at questions and responses other people have posted to many topics related to inclusion.
http://inclusion.org/

Kids Together, Inc.
A nonprofit organization co-founded by parents designed to promote inclusive communities where all people belong. This site contains a variety of helpful information and resources for inclusion. There are sections for individuals with disabilities, parents, siblings, educators, businesses and communities.
http://www.kidstogether.org/

The Let's Play! Projects
From the University of Buffalo Center for Assistive Technology. Provides families and others with ideas and strategies to promote play through the use of assistive technology.
http://letsplay.buffalo.edu/

National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
A program of the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, funded through the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. NECTAC supports the national implementation of the early childhood provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by strengthening systems at all levels to ensure that children (birth through five) with disabilities and their families receive and benefit from high quality, culturally appropriate and family centered supports and services.
http://www.nectac.org

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The National Individualizing Preschool Inclusion Project (NIPIP)
“Individualizing Inclusion” approach to support young children with disabilities in inclusive settings. Contains three components: functional intervention planning, integrated therapy, and embedded intervention. Also various tools and checklists for programs to use for implementation.
http://www.vanderbiltchildrens.com/interior.php?mid=1157

Positive Beginnings: Supporting Young Children with Challenging Behaviors
The Positive Beginning Training Modules are six on-line modules for in-service and pre-service training in the Positive Behavior Support process. They were developed jointly by Florida State University and the University of South Florida through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The modules include: Social and Communication Development, Determining the Meaning of Challenging Behavior, Positive Behavior Interventions and Support, Teaming to Build a Behavior Support Plan, Intervention in Everyday Settings, and Supporting Families.
http://pbs.fsu.edu/

Rootsforchange.net
Information on supporting families and children from a range of cultural backgrounds. This site contains articles to download and supports and strategies in the "resources" section. May be viewed in Spanish or English.
http://www.rootsforchange.net

Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI)
Formerly the Center for Evidence-Based Practice. TACSEI continues to promote evidence-based practices for improving the social-emotional outcomes for young children with, or at risk for, delays or disabilities. The Pyramid Model framework is used as the conceptual model to promote social-emotional competence and address challenging behavior. One product for use in the field is Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behaviors which was developed to assist teachers in developing a plan to support young children who are having challenging behaviors. Using routines and activities that typically occur in early childhood programs teachers in support plan development.
http://www.challengingbehavior.org

Tots -N- Tech
Integrated activities focused on the timing and use of AT devices and services to support families in promoting children's participation and learning opportunities within natural environments.
http://tnt.asu.edu/

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