Resource Center

The center offers a wide variety of publications, scholarly products and materials, technical assistance, and other dissemination activities (in partnership with other agencies and organizations, local, statewide and national) for students, professionals and individuals with disabilities and their families.

The center's library contains over 2,000 books and multimedia materials that deal with specific developmental disabilities such as Asperger's syndrome, autism, and Down Syndrome, plus the education, employment, health, and rights of people with disabilities.

We have created a short directory of our dissemination items in the right hand navigation. Please feel free to browse through all of our projects or for a complete listing, please view our Product and Publication Order Form (PDF).

Reference Guide

To clarify the definition of our scholarly products and materials, we have created a short dictionary of terms as a guide to our publications:

Audio/Visual Materials: Educational material presented in an audible/pictorial form, computer data, and website or service that offers multiple resources. CDs, DVDs, and online videos are forms of multimedia in this category.

Books: Bounded sheets of paper consisting of scholarly content that is often offered for sale. This may include; university textbooks, research monographs, published and professional books.

Book Chapters: A significant entity containing scholarly content in a book that is often offered for sale. Book chapters may be included in books such as; university textbooks, research monographs, published and professional books.

Internet Resources: Links and short descriptions of internet resources including dictionaries, online reference sites, indexes, online libraries, books and e-texts, as well as links to newspapers, news services, journals, and online magazines.

Parent Resources: Any resource (guides, fact sheets, books, brochures, information briefs) created as a tool for parents.

Professional Publications

Periodical: A prepared publication for print or by electronic means that is published for fixed intervals or a indefinite period of time. Newsletters, journals, newspapers, magazines are all examples of periodicals.

Refereed Publications: A print or electronic publication that has been reviewed by other scholar's in the field of study pertaining to the article.

Non-refereed Publications: An internally reviewed print or electronic article that presents a report, reference to a particular topic, view on analytical information.

Dissertations: Thesis or other document containing research and findings, presented as support of an individual's candidacy for a degree.

Public Awareness Materials: Descriptive materials in print or electronic form to increase public awareness or community outreach on a certain topic(s) toward a specific audience. This may include; brochures, pamphlets, press releases, campaigns, and broadcasted appearances.

Training Curricula: Instructional written strategies to set a standard of skills and concepts to be taught in an educational method to measure one's achievement. Some examples are: training programs, educational courses, student evaluations, and syllabi.