Special Needs and Gifted Resource Links
This page is the result of a collaboration between the Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Mt. Lebanon School District and parents. This collaborative group also maintains an extensive paper file on special needs which is housed at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library, as well as a community bulletin board.
As a parent of a child with special needs within the Mt. Lebanon School District, please consider joining this effort!
For more information contact Jessica Webster by email (jwebster[at]mtlsd.net) or phone (412-344-2048) or Judy Sutton by email (suttonj[at]einetwork.net) or phone 412-531-1913.
New: Living Well With A Disability is a free resource that is available to individuals with any type of disability, living in certain counties of Pennsylvania.
ADHD Links
National Institute of Mental Health - extensive article with links
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
ADDA- Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Asperger’s Syndrome links
Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic
Asthma and Allergy links
FAAN - Food Allergy Anaphylaxis Network
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology
Autism and PDD-NOS links
ABOARD (Advisory Board on Autism and Related Disorders)
American Society of Pediatrics -family resources and interviews with autism experts
Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic
Bipolar links
NAMI- National Alliance on Mental Illness
Disabilities links
Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania
Three Rivers Center for Independent Living
City-County Task Force on Disabilities
United Cerebral Palsy/Community Living and Support Services
Down Syndrome links
National Down Syndrome Society
National Association for Down Syndrome
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Gifted and Talented links *
PAGE - Pa Association of Gifted Education
National Association for Gifted Children
National Reserch Center on the Gifted and Talented
Davidson Institute for Talent Development (for the highly gifted)
John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Supporting the Emotional Needs of Gifted
*In Pennsylvania Law, Special Education includes disabilities and gifted education, under Chapters 14 and 16.
Learning Disabilities links
Learning Disabilities Association of America
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder links
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
National Institute for Mental Health
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation of Western Pennsylvania
Tourette Syndrome links
Tourette Syndrome Association, Inc.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Tourette Syndrome Info
MedLine Plus on Tourette Syndrome
