ECHO Resources

UW Project ECHO’s Reading List and Resources page offers curated materials that support ongoing learning, collaboration, and the application of ECHO’s knowledge-sharing model. Here you’ll find recommended readings, research articles, and practical tools designed to strengthen professional expertise and improve outcomes for the communities we serve.

ECHO in AT REsources

2015-2016 High School Assessment Accommodations Policies: An Analysis ofACT, SAT, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced (NCEO Report 403) (MN UCEDD/LEND)
 
This report from ICI's National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO)  provides a snapshot of how accommodations were included in policies across ACT, SAT, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and Smarter Balanced during the 2015-16 school year. As required by federal and state legislation, all students, including students with disabilities and English learners (ELs), participate in state assessments used for accountability. Some states use assessments developed by consortia of states. States also are required to ensure that graduating students are college- and career-ready (CCR). Some states use state-administrations of the ACT or SAT as their measure of CCR. Many students with disabilities and ELs use accessibility features and accommodations to access each of these assessments. This report analyzes differences in the accessibility framework, decision-making process, and terminology across the four assessments. NCEO receives funding from the Research to Practice Division, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education; states; and several other organizations. Written by Sheryl S. Lazarus and Martha L. Thurlow.

Though the price of obtaining a postsecondary education can be steep, both traditional and online college degrees should be accessible to everyone. To offset costs, many seek alternative sources of funding, including grants, loans and scholarships. Students with disabilities who are entering college will find that there are selective scholarship opportunities for which they may apply that can help pay for school. Below, discover scholarships, both narrowly- and broadly-focused, that can help students with disabilities pay for their educations, as well as additional resources for obtaining funding.

The One Vote Now website provides resources and information to enhance the voting bloc of people with disabilities and protect the fundamental value of one person, one vote. New resources have just been added under Voting Essentials and Events. The One Vote Now website is updated on a daily basis so DD Councils should check the site frequently for new resources.
 
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Guide
 

Autism and Positive Behavior Supports Resources

by Steve Silberman (ISBN-10: 0399185615, ISBN-13: 978-0399185618) What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Going back to the earliest days of autism research, Silberman offers a gripping narrative of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, the research pioneers who defined the scope of autism in profoundly different ways; he then goes on to explore the game-changing concept of neurodiversity. NeuroTribes considers the idea that neurological differences such as autism, dyslexia, and ADHD are not errors of nature or products of the toxic modern world, but the result of natural variations in the human genome. This groundbreaking book will reshape our understanding of the history, meaning, function, and implications of neurodiversity in our world.

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Treatment & Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders

ECHO For Families REsources

ECHO in Student Health Resources

"Informer" - Oct/Nov. 2017 (LCSD #1 Employee Newsletter with Article on Student Health Network leadership award)
 
Diabetes Facts
 
Diabetes Centers Map
 
Merchants of Doubt -  From Wikipedia: "A 2010 non-fiction book by American historians of science Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. It identifies parallels between the global warming controversy and earlier controversies over tobacco smoking and other subjects. Oreskes and Conway write that in each case "keeping the controversy alive" by spreading doubt and confusion after a scientific consensus had been reached was the basic strategy of those opposing action."