NICHCY: National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilitites

NDC/NICHCY Home page: (http://www.nichcy.org)

(Very Quick) Introduction:

Welcome and many, many thanks to Vicki Hornus for coordinating this web tour on behalf of the LRE-Part B CoP!

Staff Introductions:

• Kyrie Dragoo
• Sarah Escowitz
• Lisa Kupper
• Indira Medina
• Richard Sawyer

Two main project priorities:

1. Develop and disseminate information about children with disabilities and IDEA that will be readily accessible to a broad range of audiences.
2. Provide leadership in the design and implementation of integrated, responsive, and effective information dissemination strategies.

NDC/NICHCY Home page: (http://www.nichcy.org)

• Wayback Machine:
  • National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) – May 29, 1997 (http://web.archive.org/web/19970529092952/http://nichcy.org/)
  • National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) – July 31, 2008 (http://web.archive.org/web/20080731070735/http://www.nichcy.org/)

NDC/NICHCY Home page: (http://www.nichcy.org)

A Closer Look @ the Left Column Navigation:

• Disability Info (http://www.nichcy.org/DISABILITIES/Pages/Default.aspx)
  • Categories of Disability under IDEA Law (http://www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Categories/Pages/Default.aspx)
    • Autism (http://www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Specific/Pages/Autism.aspx)
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      • Related Info
        • Organizations (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Organizations.aspx?PageContext=Autism%20Spectrum)
        • Related News
        • More NICHCY Pages
• Helping Babies
• Educate Children (3-22) (http://www.nichcy.org/EducateChildren/Pages/Default.aspx)
  • All About the IEP (http://www.nichcy.org/EducateChildren/IEP/Pages/default.aspx)
  • Supports, Modifications, and Accommodations for Students (http://www.nichcy.org/EducateChildren/Supports/Pages/default.aspx)
• Laws (http://www.nichcy.org/Laws/Pages/Default.aspx)
• IDEA (http://www.nichcy.org/LAWS/IDEA/Pages/Default.aspx)
  • Building the Legacy / Construyendo el Legado: A Training Curriculum on IDEA 2004 (http://www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Pages/BuildingTheLegacy.aspx )
    • Module 15 | LRE Decision Making  (http://www.nichcy.org/Laws/IDEA/Pages/module15.aspx)
• State Specific Info (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/StateSpecificInfo.aspx)
• VT: (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/StateSpecificInfo.aspx?State=VT)
• TOC – Main Categories
• State Agencies
• Disability-Specific Organizations
• Other Disability Organizations
• Organizations for Parents
• Popular Searches:
• All State Organizations
• Early Intervention Programs
• Preschool Disability Programs
• Special Education Services
• Transition Services
• Parent Training and Information Centers (PTI)
• Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRC)

A Closer Look @ the Top Navigation:

Audience Pages

• Families and Community (http://www.nichcy.org/FamiliesAndCommunity/Pages/Default.aspx)
• Schools and Administrators (http://www.nichcy.org/SchoolsAndAdministrators/Pages/Default.aspx)

Home Page (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Home.aspx)

• Sign up for and manage your NICHCY eNews (http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?m=1101994471447&p=oi)
• Newsletter Archive (http://www.nichcy.org/Newsletters/Pages/September2009.aspx)
  • November 2009 (http://www.nichcy.org/Newsletters/Pages/November2009.aspx)
• Publications (http://www.nichcy.org/InformationResources/Pages/NICHCYPublications.aspx)
• Spanish (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Publicaciones.aspx)

Home Page (http://www.nichcy.org/Pages/Home.aspx)

SEARCH

• Basic
  • "LRE" (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?k=lre&s=All%20OSEP%20TA%26D%20Sites)
    • "Faceted" Results - Right Column
      • Content Source - All OSEP-funded TA&D Projects
        • IDEA Partnership (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?s=All+OSEP+TA%26D+Sites&k=lre+ContentSource%3a%22IDEA+Partnership%22)
      • Content Type (.pdf, .ppt, .doc. etc.)
        • .pdf (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?s=All+OSEP+TA%26D+Sites&k=lre+ContentType%3a%22application%2fvnd.ms-powerpoint%22)
      • Combine Facets, eg .pdf's from the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?s=All+OSEP+TA%26D+Sites&k=lre+ContentType%3a%22application%2fvnd.ms-powerpoint%22+ContentSource%3a%22NSTTAC+-+National+Secondary+Transition+Technical+Assistance+Center%22)
      • Topics - Correspond to main Navigation Items, eg: Newsletters (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?s=All+OSEP+TA%26D+Sites&k=lre+SiteTitle%3a%22Newsletters%22)
      • Subject - leverages our ability to assign multiple tags to content across the site, eg: Communities of Practice (http://www.nichcy.org/search/results.aspx?s=All+OSEP+TA%26D+Sites&k=lre+TaxonomyTree%3a%22semantictree%7c40%7c10%3b%3b+%3b%23Communities+of+Practice%3b%23%22)
• Advanced
  • Include/exclude sepecific words/phrases
  • Choose to search all OSEP TA&D content (default in basic search) or only NDC/NICHCY Content
  • Within NDC/NICHCY can choose to search for News, Organizations, or Products, eg "Inlcusion" with "News" checked

Social Media

• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICHCY)
• Social Networks
  • Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/nichcy)
  • Twitter (http://twitter.com/DrNICHCY)
• Social Bookmarking
  • Delicious(http://delicious.com/drnichcy)
  • Diigo ( http://www.diigo.com/user/drnichcy)
• Presentation Sharing
  • SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net/DrNICHCY)
  • Slideboom (http://www.slideboom.com/people/DrNICHCY)
• Video Sharing
  • YouTube Channel( http://www.youtube.com/drnichcy)

Priority 2 – Dissemination

• TA&D Ning (http://tadnet.ning.com/)