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Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities (ACLD)

This organization provides free information and referrals to anyone. It publishes a newsletter, ACLD Newsbriefs, and also distributes books.

Canadian Down Syndrome Society/Société canadienne de syndrome de Down

The Society works to improve the lives of Canadians with Down syndrome and to educate the public about Down syndrome.

Choosing Books for Kids (1986)

This is an excellent book on how to choose the right book for the right child at the right time.

Council of Canadians with Disabilities

This national advocacy organization for people with disabilities publishes the newsletter A Voice of Our Own.

Growing Up With Language (1992)

This book does an excellent job of conveying the appropriate role of parents in children’s language development. The author focuses on three representative children and their families, exploring how children put their first words together, how they struggle to understand meaning, and how they come to use language as a creative tool. She shows parents how their own attitudes about language are extremely important in the child’s language development.

The Ideal Problem Solver (1984)

This book discusses hundreds of fascinating problems and ways to solve them effectively.

Literacy Volunteers of America

This group trains and aids individuals and organizations to tutor adults in basic literacy and conversational English. Training materials and services are available.

National Association for Gifted Children

This is an association of academicians, educators, and librarians. The organization’s goal is to improve the education of gifted children. They provide periodic reports on the education of gifted children and publish the journal Gifted Children Quarterly.

National Down Syndrome Congress

This organization promotes the well-being of individuals with Down syndrome. They publish a newsletter and maintain a library of books about mental retardation.

National Organization on Disability

This organization acts as a clearinghouse for information about many forms of disability, including mental retardation.

The New York Times Parents’ Guide to the Best Books for Children (1991)

This revised and updated edition includes book recommendations for children of all ages. More than 1,700 titles are evaluated. The six sections are organized according to reading level: Wordless, picture, story, early reading, middle reading, and young adult. Each entry provides the essential information needed to become acquainted with the book’s content and find it in a local library or bookstore. More than 55 indexes make it easy to match the right book to the right child. This is an extensive, thorough, competent guide to selecting children’s books.

Odyssey: A Curriculum for Thinking (1986)

This comprehensive program attempts to improve adolescent decision making in a number of circumstances. The program consists of about a hundred 45-minute lessons, and a teacher’s manual describes topics such as verbal reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and inventive thinking.

The Orton Dyslexia Society, Inc.

This nonprofit organization is concerned with the many children and adults who experience difficulty in learning such skills as speaking, reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics.

Special Olympics International

This international organization is dedicated to sponsoring year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type events for mentally retarded children and adults.

Testing and Your Child (1992)

Written for parents, this comprehensive guide provides details about 150 of the most common educational, psychological, and medical tests, focusing on everything from intelligence to giftedness to achievement to personality.

Internet Resources

http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/misc.html

Institute for Information Technology provides resources on artificial intelligence.

http://casper.beckman.uiuc.edu/~c-tsai4/cogsci/

Learn about all aspects of cognitive science.

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/nthomas/index.htm

A resource on imagination, cognition, and consciousness.

http://www.june29.com/HLP/

The Human Language Page provides comprehensive links to language concerns.

http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~maglio/completion.html

Participate in a psycholinguistics study on-line.

http://where.com/scott.net/asl/

Explore American Sign Language.

http://www.brain.com/iq/

The BrainTainment Center offers links for IQ testing.

http://www.miracle.com/mensa-international/

Find out if you can join the "top 2% society" for intelligence.

http://thearc.org/welcome.html

Home page for the Association of Retarded Citizens.

http://thearc.org/welcome.html

Explore resources for dyslexia at this site.

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