Websites

• National Dissemination for Children with Disabilities
• ProTeacher: special needs
• Medical care for children with special needs
• US Dept of Education:Special needs and rehabilitive services
• Circle of inclusion (effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children)

ADD Resources
 

• CH.A.D.D. (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder)
   
• National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
   
• National Center for Gender Issues and AD/HD
   
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Autism

• Association for Science in Autism Treatment
   
• Autism Society of America (ASA)
   
• Autism Speaks
   
• Autism Research Institute
   
• Asperger Coalition of the United States
   
• Cure Autism Now (CAN)
   
• Division TEACCH
   
• The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation
   
• Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism
   
• The Eden Family of Services
   
• Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT)
   
• International Rett Syndrome Association

Mental Retardation

• Re-Focus, Inc.
   
• The Arc of the United States
   

Cerebral Palsy

• United Cerebral Palsy (UCP)
   
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
   

Speech Disorders

• American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)

Spina Bifida

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
   
• Spina Bifida Association of America
   

Tourette Syndrome

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
   
• Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.
   

Reference Books

Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues

Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychological & Behavioral Sciences

DSM-IV-TR; Diagnostic & Stat. Manual of Mental Disorders

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Handbook of Child Psychology
Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues
Handbook of Child Psychology

Books

Search the Library Catalog for books on your subject using words or phrases such as:
child development; family; child care/child rearing; child psychiatry; child psychology; developmental psychology; children and education; children and socialization/social skills; children and language; children and cognition.

• BF (child psychology)
• HQ (child development and family)
• LB, LC (children and education)
• RC (child psychiatry)
• RJ (child care/child rearing/ pediatrics)

• psychology
• child psychology
• adolescent psychology
• adulthood
• psychiatry
• social psychology
• cognitive psychology
• developmental psychology
• human behavior

Or, use narrower terms such as:

• family
• marriage
• women
• motivation
• emotion
• memory
• intelligence
• temperament
• emotion
• personality
• mental health
• moral development
• psychological disorders