SPEC ED 552: Children and Youth with disabilities in General Education

Course Specific Resources

Reference and Background

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, medicine, science and more.

Research Databases

ERIC

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Educational Administration Abstracts

Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 190,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Wiley provides access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals and over 14,000 online books.

Sample Catalog Searches for Biographical/ Fiction/

(If you would like a title that is unavailable, or would like it sent to your home, please refer to the inter-library loan instructions below)

Children's and Young Adult Books Including Characters with Disabilities (Items held by Polk Library)

Contemporary Young Adult Fiction (last 3 years)

Biographies of People with Disabilities

Disabled Persons--personal narratives

Learning Disability--biography

Inter-library Loan**

Distance education students may request books using the Illiad tool. They can receive materials sent to their home from Polk library, throughout the UW system, and beyond. You can login to Illiad using your NetID.

If you would like to find additional items to request through Illiad, you can try searching for titles in Worldcat.org

**Interlibrary loan help page (Illiad is the ILL program that is used to facilitate requests)

Sample Reference eBooks

Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Volume 1 : Diagnosis, Development, and Brain Mechanisms (4th Edition)

Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Volume 2 : Assessment, Interventions, and Policy (4th Edition)

Advances in Special Education, Volume 25 : Learning Disabilities : Practice Concerns and Students with LD

Special and Inclusive Education : A Research Perspective

Learning disabled children --Education --United States --Case studies