Education and Psychology of the Exceptional Child - EDUC 390 Resource Guide

The Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA) is a national network of volunteers with thousands of members including individuals with learning disabilities, their families, and the professionals who work with them. LDA is the largest non-profit volunteer organization advocating for individuals with learning disabilities.

The mission of the National Autism Association is to respond to the most urgent needs of the autism community, providing real help and hope so that all affected can reach their full potential.

Articles and books about emotional and/or behavioral disabilites.

The assessment of social and emotional functioning in the schools is needed for purposes of classification, intervention development, and measurement of outcomes. Procedures for completing these evaluations, as well as the relative strengths and weaknesses of the techniques, are described in this article.

Streaming video : In this classic program, internationally known learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie leads a group of educators, psychologists, parents, and children through a series of exercises that vividly illustrate the daily classroom reality of LD students, an experience fraught with F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension.

Mental retardation refers to general cognitive deficits that impair functioning across a wide variety of tasks and situations. It varies in degree, with many specific syndromes associated with more serious impairment. The cause of many cases of mental retardation, particularly milder ones, remains unknown.

Severe and profound mental retardation (SMR, PMR) are characterized by a below-average level of intellectual functioning that affects 3% to 4% of individuals diagnosed with mental retardation.

Articles on developmental delay from Cougar Search

Arnold Gessell (1925, 1946), in his pioneering research at the Yale Institute for Child Development, established a sequence of developmental norms, or milestones, through which individuals progress on their way toward normal development. Under his maturational conceptualization, individuals achieve certain developmental milestones that represent indicators of both current and future development and adjustment.