Special Education
Programs at Penn State
Special Education
at Penn State
Special Education provides programs that lead to both professional and
academic degrees for students who are interested in working with students
who deviate so far from average in physical, intellectual, emotional,
or social characteristics that they do not profit adequately from mainstream
educational programs even with modifications and
adaptations.
http://espse.ed.psu.edu/SPLED/spled.ssi
Professional Organizations
American Association of People with
Disabilities (AAPD)
Serves as a unifying membership organization that leverages the large
numbers of people with disabilities and their families and friends to
access economic and other benefits; and serves as a positive private-sector
force to achieve the goal of full inclusion in American society.
http://www.AAPD-DC.org
American Association on Mental Retardation
(AAMR)
AAMR promotes progressive policies, sound research, effective practices,
and universal human rights for people with intellectual disabilities.
http://www.aamr.org
American Occupational Therapy Association
(AOTA)
Advances the quality, availability, use, and support of occupational therapy
through
standard-setting, advocacy, education, and research on behalf of its members
and the public.
http://www.aota.org
American Physical Therapy Association
(APTA)
The APTA's goal is to foster advancements in physical therapy practice,
research, and education.
http://www.apta.org
American Psychological Association (APA)
Works to advance psychology as a science, a profession, and a means of
promoting human welfare.
http://www.apa.org
American Therapeutic Recreation Association
(ATRA)
Promotes the interests and needs of recreational therapists-health care
providers using recreational therapy interventions for improved functioning
of individuals with illness or disabling conditions.
http://www.atra-tr.org
Association for Education and Rehabilitation
Of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER)
Develops and promotes professional excellence through the support of those
who work in all phases of education and rehabilitation of blind and visually
impaired children and adults.
http://www.aerbvi.org
Autism Society of America (ASA)
Promotes lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism
spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members
of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and
research related to autism.
http://www.autism-society.org
Council for Exceptional Children
(CEC)
The CEC is the largest international professional organization dedicated
to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities,
students with disabilities, and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate
governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides continual
professional development, advocates for newly and historically underserved
individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions
and resources necessary for effective professional practice. Many of CEC's
divisions are powerful professional organizations in their own right-see
Division of Early Childhood (DEC)
http://www.dec-sped.org/
or The Council
for Educational Diagnostic Services (CEDS) http://www.unr.edu/educ/ceds/indexceds.html,
two of over a dozen examples.
http://www.cec.sped.org/
Council
for Learning Disabilities (CLD)
The CLD is an international organization that promotes effective teaching
and research and is composed of professionals who represent diverse disciplines
and who are committed to enhance the education and life span development
of individuals with learning disabilities.
http://www.cldinternational.org/home.asp
Children & Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
Works to improve the lives of people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder
through education, advocacy and support.
http://www.chadd.org
Selected Reference Sources
Special Educator's Complete Guide to 109 Diagnostic Tests
Provides a comprehensive overview of the most frequently used tests for
diagnosing suspected disabilities.
LC4019.P53 1998 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci.
Lib., 5th floor Paterno
A Glossary of Special Education
Provides simple explanations of terms used in special education as guidance
for educators and parents.
LC3957.G58 1988 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci.
Lib., 5th floor Paterno
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of
the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
Designed to present a comprehensive vision of what special education is
about in a readily understandable, usable, summative form.
LC4007.E53 2000 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci.
Lib., 5th floor Paterno
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education
Intended to be a handy desk reference for all those involved with special
education.
LC4007.E53 1990 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci.
Lib., 5th floor Paterno
Directory for Exceptional Children
Provides listings that encompass the entire range of developmental, organic
and emotional handicaps.
LC4007.D5 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib.,
5th floor Paterno
The Special Education Yellow Pages
Serves as a complete guide for finding sources, agencies, and resources
that deal with disabilities.
LC4031.P488 2000 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci.
Lib., 5th floor Paterno
Indexes and Abstracts
British Education Index
Lists and analyzes the subject content of all articles published internationally
and in the British isles on subjects that are of permanent interest to
educators.
Z5813.B7 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral
dissertations (and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American
and European universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation
pilot project. Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations
since 1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.
Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DISS
Education
Abstracts Full Text (Wilson)
Education Abstracts Full Text (Wilson) covers over 625 periodicals, with
indexing from 1983, and full text for many since 1994.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ERLEDUCABS
Exceptional Child Education Resources
Published since the advent of America's focus on special education in
the mid-1960's, this specialized index covers the broad field of special
education and is published by the leading professional organization serving
the field-the Council for Exceptional Children.
Z5814.C52E901 Reference Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th floor
Paterno
Educational Administration Abstracts
Annually provides 1000 abstracts for items in more than 200 journals,
books, government reports and conference papers, covering important areas
from early childhood education, K-12, community colleges, and higher education.
Z5814.M26E3 Reference Educ & Behav Sci. Lib 5th Floor Paterno
Educational Technology Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts important material in the field of technology and education,
including articles found in over 600 international journals and recently published
books. Coverage includes all aspects of educational technology: instructional
design and educational planning; instructional media and resources; and issues
of assessment and evaluation.
LB1028.3.E38 Educ & Behav Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
EERIC
-- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center),
is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with
more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional
and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such
as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify
findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies
studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design;
and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC
Evidence Standards. Study
reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability];
intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a
particular intervention]; topic
reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
The
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online
equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized
around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research
and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets,
modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines,
Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable
full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned
for release from 2004.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCBEHVSCI
Kraus
Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)
Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL) Online is the premier searchable
database of retrospective and current collections of curriculum guides, lesson
plans, frameworks, standards, and teaching practices for PreK-12, and Adult
Basic Education. Information in the database covers all disciplines, subjects,
and grade levels found in PreK through 12th grade education and Adult Basic
Education.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#KCDLONLINE
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full
text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests
covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology,
and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
Each entry includes test author, publication information, scoring information,
an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed,
and one or more reviews of the test.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?Where=Go+There&What=MENTALMEAS
MIT
CogNet
MIT CogNet, the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online, provides access
to a searchable, full-text library of books, journals, and reference works
from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers,
professional associations, institutions, and individuals. Additional features
are conference materials, a directory of cognitive science programs, threaded
discussion groups, job listings and other career information, and more.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MITCOGNET
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and
librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text
journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating
as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets,
a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly
monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
ProQuest
Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals: A full text database subset of PsycINFO, including
400 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically
from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage does not presently
include APA journals; additions to coverage occur frequently.)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PQPSYC
Psychology
Databases
Primary resource for psychology and related aspects of disciplines including
education, organizational management, psychophysiology, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, etc. Many titles are available in full text.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCINFO
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is
a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present, from
1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides full text,
searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published
by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and links to non-APA
full text journals owned in electronic format by the University Libraries.
Related subject areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology,
psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human factors engineering,
sociology, business, law and more. Published by the American Psychological
Association.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCART
PubMed
(Medline)
MEDLINE (which stands for MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's
(NLM) premier bibliographic database. It includes the fields of medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical
sciences. MEDLINE has 9 million citations and author abstracts from current
biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. MEDLINE
is available to Penn State users through Web access. Web-based access is also
available to any user through PubMed. Coverage: indexes 3600 journals, international
in scope, 1966-Present. Updates: Monthly
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MEDLINE4
Social
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It covers 1400 social science journals.
The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular
publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or
publication. The index can also be used to find related articles (articles
that have at least one reference in common).
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SSCINDEX
Sociological
Abstracts
Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social
Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage:
1963-present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCABS
State Education Journal Index and Educators' Guide to
Periodicals Research Strategies
Focuses on periodicals not indexed in other popular indexes.
Z5813.S68 Reference Educ & Behav Sci Lib
5th Floor Paterno
Selected Journals
Journal of Learning Disabilities
Focuses on articles on practice, research, and theory related to learning
disabilities.
LB1091.J6 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Exceptional Children
Focuses on current critical and controversial issues in special education,
as well as articles on research and developments in the field.
LC3951.J6 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Exceptional Parent
Exceptional Parent is published 11 times per year to reach out to mothers
and fathers of children and young adults who have disabilities and special
healthcare needs and to empower parents and professional by providing practical
information and emotional support.
HQ773.E93 2nd Floor Paterno-Current Issues in
Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th Floor Paterno
Remedial and Special Education: RASE
Features articles on all topics in the field, bridging the gap between theory
and practice.
LC3950.E1701 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Exceptionality
Publishes original research and research reviews pertaining to individuals
of all ages and disabilities, as well as to those who are gifted and talented.
Some issues also available online to authorized PSU users. Digitized and made
available by CatchWord.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/scripts/linklias.exe?where=Go
There&what=CATCHWORD
LC3950.E93 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Teaching Exceptional Children
Designed especially for teachers and those who serve handicapped and gifted
children, it features articles that deal with practical methods and materials
for classroom use.
LC3950.T4 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Advances in Special Education
A research annual that focuses on current topics, issues, and practices related
to special education.
LC3950.A36 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Diagnostique
Directed to special educators, psychologists, and diagnosticians who use methods
of educational measurement in evaluating exceptional individuals.
LC3950.T4 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Teaching Education and Special Education
Features reports of original research, evaluations of personnel preparation
programs and their components.
LC3950.T4 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
A quarterly research publication focusing on young exceptional children, special
education practices, and treatment methodologies.
LC4019.2.T66 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Pennsylvania Education
Provides educators and the public with information on aspects of education
in Pennsylvania schools.
Doc Pa. PE 177/8/4.7/2 Documents Collection,
2nd Floor Paterno
Creative Classroom
Presents hands-on teaching techniques for the PreK-6 teachers.
LB1537.C62 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Teaching Pre K-8
Features articles that present classroom-tested methods and ideas appropriate
for teachers in Pre k-8.
LB1140.E1501 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Science and Children
Features articles on science teaching in Pre K-8.
LB1585.S34 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
School Library Journal
Caters to the information needs of professionals in libraries for children,
and young adults. Reviews nearly 2000 children's books and other media for
children each year.
Z1037.A1S38 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib., 5th
Floor Paterno
Resources for Special Education
Office
of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Supports programs that assist in educating children with special needs, provides
for the rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities, and supports
research to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/index.html?src=mr
Consortium for Citizens
with Disabilities
A coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations working
together to advocate for national public policy that ensures the self determination,
independence, empowerment, integration and inclusion of children and adults
with disabilities in all aspects of society.
http://www.c-c-d.org/
Council for Exceptional
Children (CEC)
The professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes
for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or
the gifted.
http://www.cec.sped.org/
Special Education Resources
on the Internet (SERI)
Provides easy access to on-line collections of information resources for Special
Education. Topics include "Legal and Law Resources," "Parents
and Educator's Resources," "Medicine and Health, Special Education
Discussion Groups," "Special Needs and Technology," among many
others.
http://seriweb.com/