The Disabilities Studies for Teachers website from Syracuse University's Center on Human Policy contains a short course on Disability Studies for teachers that provides a historical context for where we are today with the treatment and education of students with disabilities.

The on-line lesson plan has links to readings, assignments and discussion topics. This is useful background information on how and why people with disabilities are viewed and treated as they but it is not a practical guide designed to provide teachers directly with skills to better teach students with disabilities. However, the generic document on Differientiated Instruction offers some usiful information. Reading through the outlines and the coursework, this course looks better than it might sound based on on the units described below.

The Adminstrative Services Manual for Special Education Services (AMSES) document is basically the rule book for Special Ed service delivery in the State of Delaware. It is hundreds of pages long, looks full of complex terms and seems at first pass to be completely inaccessable to the average parent. In reality, it is written in plain language, largely full of blank space and more user friendly than it first appears. This is good news because you can no more expect to advocate for your child effectively without knowing the rules than you could play football or Monopoly without knowing the rules.