Publications

Welcome to the Kern County Consortium SELPA's Publication page.  The links below will provide useful information for special educators and administrators as you plan interventions for your students.

 

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

What Works Clearinghouse                                                                                                                          Practice guides provide practical recommendations for educators to help them address the everyday challenges they face in their classrooms and schools. Developed by a panel of nationally recognized experts, practice guides consist of actionable recommendations, strategies for overcoming potential roadblocks, and an indication of the strength of evidence supporting each recommendation. IES practice guides are subjected to rigorous external peer review. 

NICHCYPublications                                                                                                                                                                                           NICHCY's publications are all available here, for free, on their Web site. Their publications cover the many topics related to children and youth with disabilities. 

Access Center

Enhancing access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. Their resources focus on core content areas—language arts, math, and science—as well as on instructional and learning strategies to provide students with disabilities access to rigorous academic content. They have a series of professional development modules and information briefs on such topics as teaching and learning strategies, media and materials, supports and accommodations, universal design for learning, differentiated instruction, and collaborative teaching.

 

PENT (Positive Environments Network of Trainers)

The Positive Environments, Network of Trainers is a California Positive Behavior Initiative designed to provide information and resources throughout California for educators striving to achieve high educational outcomes through the use of proactive positive strategies. Evidence-based positive practices and helpful information is disseminated statewide through this website.

 

Classroom Management:

This guide, developed by the California Department of Education, in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, responds to  teachers and administrators faced with a growing need to successfully manage unwanted behavior in the classroom. The guide addresses a wide range of student behavior problems in order to create "environments conducive to learning," as required in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

 

Response to Intervention

Response to intervention integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems.  With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities.

Speech and Language Delays and Disorders

Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD

What are the autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)?
Autism spectrum disorders, or ASD, are also called pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) because they involve delay in many areas of development. PDD or ASD is a category that includes five different disorders of development, each with differing severities and patterns

 

 

National Institute for Literacy

The National Institute for Literacy develops publications for families and educators of learners across the lifespan. Copies can be ordered by calling the National Institute for Literacy at EDPubs at 1-800-228-8813 (TDD/TTY1-877-576-7734) by emailing edpubs@inet.ed.gov, or faxing 1-301-470-1244. You can access other publications of interest electronically by searching LINCS.

 

Least Restrictive Behavioral Interventions (LRBI)

Autism Program Quality Indicators 

The Autism Program Quality Indicators (APQI) are a compilation of the best practices in educating students with autism, which were developed to serve as a means of guiding quality improvement activities for schools and programs serving children with autism in New York State.

 

                                                                                                   

ASAT: The Association for Science in Autism Treatment  

The mission of ASAT is to share accurate, scientifically sound information about autism and treatments for autism.   

 

 

NAC: National Autism Center                                                                                                                   

The National Autism Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting effective, evidence-based treatment approaches, and to providing direction to families, practiotioners, organizations, policy-makers, and funders.  On this site, you can access a copy of the completed National Standards Report.      

 

Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disorders (POPARD)

POPARD promotes a wide range of evidence-based practice approaches that facilitate inclusive educational programs in the least restrictive environment.  This website also provides teachers, para-professionals, and parents with information about ASD.

                                                                                                                                                                                    


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