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A Child's Guide to Epilepsy From Epilepsy Canada, an international non-profit organization devoted to promote and support research into all aspects of epilepsy, and to create awareness and understanding about epilepsy through educational programs. This website, geared towards children, teaches about why and how seizures happen, how seizure medicines work, and seizure "first aid". On the top of the web page, go to Kidz Korner and click on "a child's guide to epilepsy"

Able Generation Able Generation designs products specifically for children with special needs, with a focus on children in the preschool age range (1-5, depending on size) with mild to moderate involvement. This website includes descriptions of each product, a price list, and order forms.

After the Injury A website designed to help severely injured children cope with emotional issues that can linger long after their accident. The Web site includes tip sheets, videos and planning guides to help families and victims. From the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology This website provides information about asthma and allergies, pollen counts, news releases, a coloring book for children, and much more.

Asthma Information index From the American Lung Association. Has reliable information, games for children, updates on asthma management. Also has information in Spanish.

Autism Society of North Carolina Bookstore The Autism Society of North Carolina Bookstore was foundd in 1988 in response to parent requsts for information on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Over the past 17 years the bookstore has grown to become the largest non-profit ASD-specific bookstore in the United States, with nearly 500 titles in stock.

AutismBuddy.com AutismBuddy aims to provide a FREE user-friendly website that provides high quality pintables and resources for teachers and parents for use with children with Special Educational Needs. You will find easy to download resources in many categories including booklets, puzzles and games, flashcards, worksheets, visual timetabling, activities, visual aids, emotions, teaching aids, matching and sorting, classroom display, clip-art, E-books and social skills and many more.

Band-aides and Blackboards Goal is to help people understand what it's like to grow up with medical problems, from the perspective of the children and teens who are doing just that. Areas for parents, teens, and children.

Beautifulkids, Inc. Modeling Agency A National Modeling Agency for Children with special needs, representing over 500 children with disabilities (including some from North Carolina). This website describes their organization, allows clients to locate an appropriate model, and provides instructions on how your child can become a model in their agency.

Bladder Management Programs from Mentor corporation, makers of latex - free catheters used for intermittent catheterizations. This site provides catheterization instructions for boys and girls, coloring books and flash cards about bladder programs, and information on self-cath products.

Bounce Back Kids Bounce Back Kids in a non-profit organization that enriches the lives of children with serious medical conditions and their families through free year-round social, athletic, and recreational activities that are offered in a caring and supportive environment that is medically safe. Bounce Back Kids offers individual and group sports training, recreational and social activities and other support services such as a buddy program and college planning.

Center for Early Communication and Learning J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center The C-ECI is one of the seven Assistive Technology Resource Centers (ATRC) for children birth to five in the state, serving 12 counties (Alexander, Allegany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, McDowell, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey). The C-ECL provides technical assistance and consultation, equipment loan, and training in the area of AT. The C-ECL also provides technical assistance and consultation in AT for individuals over the age of five.

Children with Disabilities Website This Web site is part of a joint effort by several Federal agencies to promote a national agenda for children and foster positive youth development. The site provides information of interest to children with disabilities, their families, and service providers on learning disabilities, debilitating conditions, and physical disabilities and includes information on advocacy, education, employment, health, recreation, training, and housing.

Children's Cancer Web A Guide to Internet Resources for Childhood Cancer

Cleveland Clinic Foundation Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation- Games Computer games for children including, checkers, tic tac toe, save kid city, and flip the chips.

Enabling Devices-Toys for Special Children Enabling Devices, a division of Toys for Special Children, Inc., is a New York based company dedicated to developing affordable play, learning, and assistive devices to help people with disabling conditions. This site allows you to learn about and purchase their many toys and assistive technology products.

Encourage Online A website that acts as "a place for teens with chronic illness and their family and friends to talk, connect and have fun with someone who understands! This program, sponsored by Children's Hospitals and Clinics in St. Paul, Minnesota, helps youth with chronic illness find support, friendship, and information as they cope with their condition and transition to adulthood. The site includes a chat room, links, a bulletin board, and a list of "helpers" who are young adults with different chronic conditions who are available to offer support and advice.

Exceptional Children's Assistance Center This website provides professional development opportunities and resources for those in the Early Intervention community.

Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy This non-profit organization of families of children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) focuses on supporting each other and raising funds for research designed to find a cure for this condition. This website has information about SMA, lists local chapters (including the NC chapter headquartered in Cary), provides updates on research activities, has a section of SMA-related links, and lists pen-pals for children with SMA.

Family Village A wonderful program for anyone with a disability, this website integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the internet for persons with disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. Includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication connections, adaptive products and technology,adaptive recreational activities, education, worship, health issues, disability-related media and literature.

KASA Kids As Self-Advocates (KASA) is a national, grassroots network of youth with special needs and their friends who work to spread helpful, positive information among their peers to increase knowledge about living with special health care needs, health care transition issues, education, employment, and other topics. A program of Family Voices, a national non-profit organization of families and friends speaking on behalf of children with special health care needs.

Kids Food CyberClub The Kids Food CyberClub is for 3rd to 5th grade children with activities which teach kids about food, nutrition, and hunger. The goal of the site is to improve health outcomes by promoting good nutrition among children. Children can explore 14 sections of the web site and learn about nutrition and health through interactive quizzes, "shop" for food online and receive feedback about the nutritional value of their choices, investigate and build the food guide pyramid, contribute recipes to a Club Cookbook, use Internet search engines in an online "scavenger hunt", and contribute book reviews on food-related children's books.

Kids on Wheels Magazine This website provides more information about this magazine for children and adults who are wheelchair users, an online advice column, message boards, and much more

Lekotek The National Lekotek Center aims to contribute to the knowledge base about the link between play and early learning for children with special needs. This website provides information and resources for parents and professionals, including a listing of play and toy ideas developed for different conditions.

Loving Paws An organization based in Santa Rosa, CA which trains dogs to assist physically challenged children from around the United States. Clients usually include children with spinal cord injury,cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and spina bifida.

Magination Press Magination Press publishes children's books dealing with both normal psychological issues and the resolution of serious childhood problems. Most are written by PhD psychologists or other mental health professionals.Books are intended to not only delight, assist, or inform the child reader but also to be used as tools for parents and professionals. Subjects include, adoption, learning disabilities, medical issues, depression, disability, divorce, dying, schjool, self esteem and family matters.

National Deaf Education Network and Clearinghouse/Info To Go Info to Go, formerly the National Information Center on Deafness, is a centralized source of accurate, up-to-date, objective information on topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss in the age group of 0-21. Info to Go responds to a wide range of questions received from the general public, deaf and hard of hearing people, their families, and professionals who work with them. Info to Go collects, develops, and disseminates information on deafness, hearing loss, and services and programs related to children with hearing loss from birth to age 21.

North Carolina Infant Toddler Program This website includes information on the NC Infant Toddler program housed in the Early Intervention Branch, Women's and Children's Health Section, Division of Public Health: the Preschool Disabilities Program, housed in the Department of Public Instruction: and the NC Interagency Coordinating Council, housed at the Division of Child Development. Links to related sites are include.

Nutrition for Kids This site features books, teaching kits and other resources focusing on nutrition for Kids. Their book, How to Teach Nutrition to Kids, gives ideas that empower children to evaluate nutrition information, make smart food choices, and creatively prepare foods.Published by 24 Carrot Press, their mission is to provide books and materials that take a positive, fun approach to the more serious issues that affect children today, including obesity, eating disorders, poor eating habits and inactivity.

Right Under My Nose An online book that helps young children with spina bifida learn about and be comfortable with their bodies. With a fully interactive story, activities, tips, and a printable version of the whole book, this site is intended to be educational and fun. From the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

STARBRIGHT Foundation STARBRIGHT is a unique program that is dedicated to empowering seriously ill children to fight the social and emotional challenges that they face every day. STARBRIGHT educates and encourages children through numerous creative projects. One particular project, Videos With Attitude, provides seriously ill teens and pre-teens with a video series geared to help them cope and learn to advocate for themselves. In the videos, teen survivors of illness share tips and solutions for coping with the challenges of serious medical conditions. Videos are free to children with a serious illness and their families. Be sure to check out all the current projects when browsing this website.

Sibling Support Project A national program, the Sibling Support Project strives to increase the availiability of peer support and educational programs for the brothers and sisters of people with special health care needs and developmental disabilities. Information is geared to both younger brothers and sisters as well as adult siblings.

Slyde the Playground Hound A website for children that teaches them about playground safety. Includes a playground safety quiz, comics, coloring pages, and more.

SportQuest A complete list and descriptions of general sites for all disabled athletes

Stuttering Foundation of America Based in Memphis, Tennessee, the Stuttering Foundation of America, the first nonprofit, charitable association in the world to concern itself with the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering, distributes over a million publications to the public and professionals each year. This web site has information for those who stutter and their families as well as professionals.

Teasing, People Say the Craziest Things, BandAides and Blackboards Paragraph-length testimonials of children with disabilities and their parents relating their experience of being teased and/or misunderstood by schoolmates and people in their communities.

Tots 'n Tech Research Institute (TnT) This is the newest section of the Tots 'n Tech web iste that features AT ideas from early interventionists around the United States. It is being updated weekly with new categories and new ideas.

Transition Health Care Assessment Questionnaire This website allows you to download questionnaires to help determine what an adolescent with special health care needs does and doesn't know about managing their chronic illness or disability on their own. Developed by the California Healthy and Ready to Work Program, with funding from the Department of Health and Human Services Maternal Child Health Bureau.

UC and Crohn's A web site for youth from the Crohns Colitis Foundation of America that focuses on Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease that includes discussions about talking with physicians, dealing with day-to-day hassles associated with a chronic condition, was of taking charge, and issue of privacy. While some of the discussions are specific to these two conditions, most are relevant to any chronic health condition or disability.

Virtual Children's Hospital Home Page The goal of the Virtual Children's Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers, patients, and families. Based at the Children's Hospital of Iowa, this site contains a digital library that delivers Continuing Education (CE) to health care providers, a wealth of information for families, and a kids' page of resources.

We Can Play An online manual of 20 activity ideas that can be used by children of all abilities. Also available in handout form and in Spanish. From the Alliance for Technology Access.

Winners on Wheels Empowers kids in wheelchairs by encouraging personal achievement through creative learning and expanded life experiences that lead to independent living skills.