Educational Resources:

AbleData
Description: ABLEDATA is a federally funded project whose primary mission is to provide information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States.

About One Hand Typing
Description: About One Hand Typing and Keyboarding. For one hand typists and their friends.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Description: ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 96,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

American Federation of Teachers
Description: The mission of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is to improve the lives of our members and their families, to give voice to their legitimate professional, economic and social aspirations, to strengthen the institutions in which we work, to improve the quality of the services we provide, to bring together all members to assist and support one another and to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in our union, in our nation and throughout the world.

Assistive Technology Resources

Augmentative/Alternative Communication Intervention
Description: Augmentative & Alternative Communication Intervention Products & Presentations

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Centers
Description: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies assist people with severe communication disabilities to participate more fully in their social roles including interpersonal interaction, learning, education, community activities, employment, volunteerism, care management, and so on.

Autism Society of America
Description: The Autism Society of America was founded in 1965 by a small group of parents working on a volunteer basis out of their homes. The Society has developed into the leading source of information and referral on autism. ASA is dedicated to increasing public awareness about autism and the day-to-day issues faced by individuals with autism and their families. The Society and its chapters share a common mission of providing information and education, supporting research, and advocating for programs and services for the autism population.

Babblefish.com
Description: Babblefish.com the web's premier language translation portal. This language translation portal is brought to you by  IMMS.

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
Description: The Council for Exceptional Children (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.

CEC: Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
Description: The Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders is a division of the Council for Exceptional Children dedicated to promoting and facilitating the education and general welfare of children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders. CCBD advocates for the needs of children and youth and their families, encourages research and professional growth as vehicles for better understanding of emotional or behavioral disorders, and provides professional support for persons who are involved with and serve children and youth with emotional or behavioral disorders.

CEC Resources for Unit Leaders
Description: This is the place for unit leaders to get information and materials for keeping your unit running smoothly. Need membership applications? Download and print them anytime! You’ll find many of the things you need can be accessed from this page.

Dragon Systems

HLERK
Description: Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn Law Firm

IASA Illinois Education Job Bank
Description: The Illinois Education Job Bank (IEJB) - a comprehensive and easy-to-use Education job vacancy list! This site is an interactive, searchable resource that provides educators seeking employment in Illinois schools the opportunity to find openings. This is a free service to job seekers.

IDEA 97 Home Page
Description: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 were signed into law on June 4, 1997. This Act strengthens academic expectations and accountability for the nation's 5.8 million children with disabilities and bridges the gap that has too often existed between what children with disabilities learn and what is required in regular curriculum.

IDEA Practices Website
Description: The IDEA Partnership projects, located at the Council for Exceptional Children, bring you the monthly IDEA News. If you are finding the news we share helpful, we encourage you to post each month’s issue on a listserv, or share it with colleagues in your district, state or program

Illinois Autism Project
Description: The Illinois Autism/PDD Training and Technical Assistance Project is an Illinois State Board of Education initiative which provides training and technical assistance focused on educating students with autism and other pervasive developmental disorders (PDD).

Illinois Supervisors of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Individuals
Description: A website for supervisors of educational programs in Illinois that serve students who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

Infinitec, Inc
Description: Infinitec, which stands for Infinite Potential through Assistive Technology, is a non-profit corporation formed to help people with disabilities and their families access life-enhancing assistive technology. Infinitec is a joint effort of United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Chicago and United Cerebral Palsy Association, Inc., Washington, D.C. and builds on technology-access programs offered by UCP affiliates around the nation.

Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Description: ISBE regularly updates this site to keep you informed of the latest happenings in education in the State of Illinois. This is the place to go to find out the latest on teacher certification and re-certification plans.

ISBE Certificate Renewal Manual and ISBE Teachers Recertification Page

ISBE: Emotional and Behavioral Disabilites (EBD) Partnership Network
Description: The Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities Partnership was formed in 1990 by the Illinois State Board of Education to assist educational systems in developing collaborative, community-based supports for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.

ISBE: No Child Left Behind
Description: Information on the NCLB Legislation as presented by the Illinois State Board of Education

ISBE Online Forms for various certificates and renewals

ISBE: Bilingual Special Education
Description: Information on this page has been gathered from ISBE Special, Bilingual and Certification as it relates to the provision of special education to English language learners (ELL). Additional government, parental and professional organization resources are also included.

ISBE Special Education Department
The ISBE Special Education Department page. Welcome to the Department of Special Education.  We are  dedicated to ensuring a quality education for ALL students--one that is Second to None !

Illinois School Psychologists Association
Description: The Illinois School Psychologists Association is a not-for-profit professional association representing school psychologists in the state of Illinois.

The Nathaniel H. Kornreich Technology Center
Description: The Kornreich Center showcases state-of-the-art assistive technology (AT) that assists children and adults with disabilities to become more independent and self-sufficient. The Kornreich Technology Center provides information, demonstrations, technology evaluations, and training on assistive technology and its impact on people with disabilities.

Learning Disabilities Association of America
Description: The Learning Disabilities Association of America is a national, non-profit organization that is dedicated to identifying causes and promoting prevention of learning disabilities. LDA is committed to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities by encouraging effective identification and intervention, fostering research, and protecting their rights under the law.

Low Incidence Cooperative Agreement (LICA)
Description: LICA's mission is to provide diagnostic, educational and related services to students who are deaf and hard of hearing, ages birth to 21, who reside in the served area (N/NW Suburbs of Chicago) and whose needs can be met most efficiently and effectively on a regional basis. This includes children with other disabilities in addition to hearing loss.

National Center On Educational Outcomes
Description: The National Center on Educational Outcomes provides national leadership in the participation of students with disabilities in national and state assessments, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements.

National Education Association (NEA)
Description: NEA is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA proudly claims over 2.3 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs. Affiliates are located in every state and in over 13,000 local communities across the United States.

National Head Start Association (NHSA)
Description: NHSA provides a national forum for the continued enhancement of Head Start services for poor children ages zero to five, and their families. It is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to the concerns of the Head Start community.

National Association of School Psychologists
Description: The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) promotes educationally and psychologically healthy environments for all children and youth by implementing research-based, effective programs that prevent problems, enhance independence, and promote optimal learning.

The No Child Left Behind Act Website
Description: On Jan. 8, 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This new law represents his education reform plan and contains the most sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since it was enacted in 1965. It changes the federal government's role in kindergarten-through-grade-12 education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The act contains the President's four basic education reform principles: stronger accountability for results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work.

Office of Special Education Programs
Description: The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts

Professional Development Alliance
Description: The Professional Development Alliance is an agency of the Regional offices of Education for Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties, providing staff development, workshops, training, graduate education courses, consulting services, facilitation and planning services and technical assistance to schools and other educational agencies.

Recreation Access Illinois
Description: Attorney General Madigan developed an outstanding program called Recreation Access Illinois that provides all kinds of information on recreation opportunities for people with disabilties of all ages.

Starfall Learn-to-Read Website
The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. They also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing.

Trace Center
Description: The Trace Center is currently working on ways to make standard information technologies and telecommunications systems more accessible and usable by people with disabilities. This work is primarily funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) (U.S. Department of Education)

UseVisualStrategies.com
Description: Improving communication is one of the primary needs for persons with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, or others with communication or behavior challenges. Our goal is to provide tools to help improve communication for a better quality of life.

Valley Education for Employment System
Description: Valley Education for Employment System (VALEES) is a regional delivery system established by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) which serves 18 school districts, two area career/vocational centers, one special education cooperative and Waubonsee Community College, covering a five-county area.

Virtual Assistive Technology

Faculty Resources :

Blue Cross Blue Shield:
KCSEC Health Insurance. Employees will need their group # for PPO or group # for HMO. Employees will need to register on line and then wait 5 to 7 days for confirmation. Mail order prescription envelopes are available in our COOP office

Vision Service Plan:
KCSEC Vision Insurance

Delta Dental Plan:
KCSEC Dental Insurance

Teachers' Retirement System

Research Resources:

Merck Diagnostic Manual
Merck & Co., Inc.  is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint ventures.

U.S Medicine
U.S. MEDICINE is both an organization and a newspaper. Both were established in 1964 and have operated continuously since from its headquarters in Washington, DC.

Mayo Clinic
A core principle of Mayo Clinic is "to be a dependable source of health information for our patients and the public." This page provides a gateway to some high quality online resources for health and medical information.

Google
Internet Search Engine

Yahoo!
Internet Search Engine

Member Districts:

Oswego School District 308

Yorkville School District

Plano School District