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- Primary Search (This link opens in a new window)A full-text database providing popular children's magazines, encyclopedia entries, and an image collection.
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General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic (This link opens in a new window)
Provides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsCall Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2014
Handbook of Early Childhood Special EducationCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9783319284927Publication Date: 2016
Handbook of Special EducationCall Number: Upper Level LC3965 .H26 2017ISBN: 9781138699144Publication Date: 2017
The Praeger International Handbook of Special Education [3 Volumes]Call Number: Stacks Upper Level LC3957 P75 2017ISBN: 9781440831133Publication Date: 2017
Special Education - A Reference Book for Policy and Curriculum DevelopmentCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9781682179505Publication Date: 2018
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- The Office of Accessibility
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- The ITS Help Desk
- The Math Center
- The Science Center
- The Writing Center
Special Education Course Guides
Below is a list of this semester's Course Guides for this subject:
