Useful Websites

[David Hosobuchi]

Use this thread for posting other websites relevent to this forum....:)

[milivica]

www.wrightslaw.com

www.rdiconnect.com

[Lara]

Abbreviations - mostly Autism Related (http://kildall.apana.org.au/autism/abbreviations.html)

TSplus - Glossary and Guide to Acronyms and Clinical Terms (http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/Files/glossary.pdf)

TSplus -Special Education Glossary and Acronyms Guide (http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/Files/acronyms_edu.pdf)

Acronym Guide: ADHD, Disorders and Special Education (http://www.addforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-11111.html)

COMMON HEALTH/DISABILITY ACRONYMS (http://www.springmeade.com/okwww/Acros.html)

Acronyms Frequently Used in Special/Gifted Education (http://ericec.org/fact/acronyms.html)

If anyone has any better ones, please just post them as well.

[DoIhaveto?]

Here are a few websites for speech and OT items you can order and get catalogs for home use, which I got from my childs OT. Great for Christmas too.
If there is another general place I should post these, can someone let me know? Thanks. :)

www.abilitations.com

www.intigrationscatalog.com

www.speechbin.com

[Lara]

Good book

Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach
by Howard Glasser MA, and Jennifer Easley, MA

"The Nurtured Heart Approach involves bombarding kids with positive statements, while treating misbehavior with unemotional time-outs.

Book's emphasis on ADHD hides the fact that the approach works for other special needs, too.

Some kids are just more intense than others. Their reactions are bigger, their actions more headstrong, their misdeeds more passionate. One solution to that intensity has been to tamp it down, through medication or strict discipline. “Transforming the Difficult Child” suggests another: Channeling that intensity into more positive, productive expression. This approach has the added benefit of focusing parents on the positive, too."

excerpts from Parenting Special Needs at about com. http://specialchildren.about.com/od/behaviorissues/gr/nurturedheart.htm

[Phoeff]

http://www.aspires-relationships.com/index.htm

My son is getting older and I'm trying to get more info about the pre-teen and teen years. I stumbled on this one. They have some very good articles and the Extra part was good.

[moose53]

I *LOVE* blogs :D

I've found a wonderful one that's all about being the wife to a new legislator, running a scrapbooking business and, BEST OF ALL, being a Mom to a wonderful little boy named 'Simon':

http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/

Barb

[moose53]

I've gotten interested in learning more about autism. I've found these to be useful:

Autism Bloggers (http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=MoiIsInTheHouse;action=list)

Barb

[Mother's Heart]

About preparing for and dealing with interactions between law enforcement and autistic people. Police training.
http://www.autismriskmanagement.com/index.html

http://www.inlv.demon.nl/avunsi/index.html

explore the website: there's a host of valuable information. Maybe be pro-active and take the information to your local law enforcement agency.

[dyslimbic]

http://www.autismspeaks.org/

[RathyKay]

This website lists drugs and what vitamins and minerals are depleted from which ones. Includes anti-seizure meds, antibiotics, acetaminophen, blood pressure, acid-blockers and other meds that I don't have a clue about. You can also look up a specific vitamin / mineral to see which drugs deplete it. It says it will be updated as more info comes in. I keep thinking it's a little low on seizure meds... just the older drugs.

http://www.suzycohen.com/drugmuggers/

[RathyKay]

This is another drug depletion website. I notice the other one I posted above is no longer working. This one appears to have more of our seizure meds listed, but you do need to know alternative names for some of the meds. ie Tegretol is also known as Carbamazepine. Carbamazepine is listed; Tegretol is not.

http://www.naturalnews.com/DrugWatch_home.html

[roadracer]

http://www.wrongplanet.net/
A very large (probably the largest) autism and aspergers community

[Prot]

http://www.ianproject.org/

[lbrandolo]

iCommunicate is a versatile app that will help typically developing children as well as children with developmental delays and autism. Early intervention specialists, teachers, and parents will love this app! We provide a way to create customized storyboards and visual schedules for your child.

-- GENESIS

This idea was born out of our own personal experience with our son. He qualified for Early Intervention at 19 months due to an expressive and receptive language delay. When he was 27 months old, he began having significant social anxiety, and did not want to leave the house. He was evaluated by many professionals, including an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, a neurologist, a developmental specialist, and a psychologist. We found that storyboards were the most helpful tool recommended by these professionals.

Check it out:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320986580&mt=8

[peglem]

PANDAS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep, is an autoimmune disorder that is caused by strep infections. It causes autistic like behaviors: sensory processing problems, repetitive thoughts and actions, and abnormal movements. Frequently manifests with severe separation anxiety, emotional meltdowns and rages as well.
For more info visit:

http://www.latitudes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=17

and

http://www.pandasnetwork.org/

[Aspigander]

Just occurred to me that folks here might find this useful. WebMD has a symptom checker, where you can select the symptoms you're having and it will list possible diagnoses. Of course, it's not meant to replace a professional diagnosis, but could still be helpful.
http://symptoms.webmd.com/symptomchecker

[Aspigander]

Here's a drug interaction checker (thanks, Peg, for PMing this to me a while back):
http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html

[goddessoflubbock]

www.asdgestalt.com

Has lots of good scientific info, a great resource, full of interesting people always willing to help.