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Children With Disabilities
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
Well-organized links to federal and state resources.
Jointly sponsored by nine federal agencies under the umbrella of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this site "presents families, service providers, and other interested individuals with information about advocacy, education, employment, health, housing, recreation, technical assistance, and transportation."
It contains material about a broad array of developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities, including learning disabilities, such as attention deficit disorder; debilitating illnesses, such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, and cancer; and physical challenges, such as blindness and deafness. This site also provides assistance for children whose healthy development is threatened by social factors, such as poverty and abuse.
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Visual Tracking and the Switch Using Child: The Penguin Roller Coaster
The Penguin Roller Coaster is designed to help children track the movements of small objects. The penguins do a variety of movements - gliding up, down, around, and bumpy steps up. Each of these movements is tracked differently, making this toy very interesting to watch. This toy is most suitable for children who ONLY watch the toy as is fairly fragile.