EDU204: Characteristics of Learners with Disabilities: Trends Project

National Center on Educational Outcomes:
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/nceo/

National Resource Center on Learning Disabilities:
http://www.nrcld.org

Society for Disability Studies: http://www.disstudies.org/

Disability Studies Quarterly (free journal of Society for Disability Studies): http://dsq-sds.org/index

National Center on Response to Intervention:   http://www.rti4success.org/

National Center on Universal Design for Learning:  http://www.udlcenter.org/

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST):  http://www.cast.org/

• Source quality is key.  Scholarly journal articles are required.
  
  
• Part of the goal is for you to improve your research skills, in addition to learning about the topics. Notice there is an entire rubric about this!
  
  
• Read the rubrics carefully & follow them!
  
  
• Narrow down your topic. Do you want to investigate your selected trend as it relates to a particular age group?  Or a certain disability?
  
  
• Example:  Searching ERIC, the education database, for "disability studies" returned 187 results. Limiting the same search to Elementary Education returns only 8 results.
  
  
• See the Research Tools & Tips tab above for searching suggestions!