Government Agencies
Federation for Children with Special Needs: www.fcsn.org
Massachusetts Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education: www.doe.mass.edu
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act: http://idea.ed.gov/download/finalregulations.html
No Child Left Behind: http://ed.gov/nclb/landing.html
Massachusetts Special Education Law: http://www.doe.mass.edu/sped/
Reading and Learning Disabilities
International Dyslexia Association: http://www.interdys.org/
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association: www.add.org
Children and Adults with ADD (CHAD): www. chadd.org/
American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA): www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/LBLD.htm
Learning Disabilities Association: www.ldanatl.org
Learning Disabilities Association of Massachusetts: http://www.ldam.org
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic: Boston Unit (Cambridge): http://www.rfbd.org/Boston_Unit.htm
Learning Disabilities Online: www.ldonline.org
Dyslexia Research Institute: www.dyslexia-add.org
Dyslexia Awareness and Resources Center: www.dyslexiacenter.org/main.shtml
Understood.org
Literacy
International Reading Association: http://www.reading.org/
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement: http:/www.ciera.org/
National Institute for literacy: http://www.nifl.gov/
Literacy Connections: http://literacyconnections.com/
Local PACS (Parent Advisory Councils)
Arlington: http://www.arlington.k12.ma.us/sepac/
Belmont: http://www.belmont.k12.ma.us/bseac
Brookline: http://brooklinesepac.org/
Cambridge: http://sites.google.com/site/cambridgespedpacorg2
Concord Carlisle: Http://concordspedpac.org
Lexington: http://www.lexingtonspedpac.org/content/reference/transition.htm
Newton: http://www.newtonpac.org/Home_Page.html
Sudbury: http://fc.sudbury.k12.ma.us/~sseac
Advocates and advocacy
http://specialneedsma.com/advocacy.htm
http://www.schwabfoundation.org/About-CHSF/Publications/Schwab-Learning.aspx
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