VI Guide-Magazine Rack, for parents and teachers of blind and visually impaired children

Parenting

Band-aides and Blackboards

This site has a tremendous amount of information about when children with chronic illness or some other medical problem go to school. Information is divided into sections for kids, teens and parents, and includes personal experiences, coping strategies, sibling relationships, how to handle teasing, and much more.

Diana Michelle's Home Page

This site is written by Trish and John, Diana Michelle's parents, in honor of their daughter and to share information and resources they found for making baby and child care accessible for parents with disabilities.

Family.Com

This site features information on several subjects including education, computing, travel, food and activities. What's especially nice about it is that within each category, you can customize the information presented by category (e.g. indoors/outdoors/parties/etc. for activities; preschool/special needs/homework/etc. for education).

Family Planet

This is an online magazine (known as an "e-zine") that has several sections related to parenting. Information includes summaries of recent news articles (e.g. safety recalls, medical recalls), reviews of movies, toys and fun sights, a forum for discussing everyday aspects of parents, and even a parenting instruction manual put together by a team of Family Planet experts.

Family Education Network

This site features information about school, home, activities, books, software and special needs. Under each of those areas, it offers answers and advice, a list of resources and even discussion groups where you can post a message and others can then read it and reply to it. The list of resources, while not exhaustive, is nice since it lets you tailor the results to those resources located in your state.

Family Village

This site has a lot of resources for families of children with all sorts of disabilities, as well as a place where parents can post requests for contact with parents of kids with the same disability. Also, they host discussion boards and chat rooms and have links to mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups relating to disabilities.

National Parent Information Network (NPIN)

This site features full text electronic versions of pamphlets, brochures, digests, etc. on such subjects as assessment and testing, child care and early childhood learning. It also offers abstracts of books and links to periodic newsletters that deal with parenting and educational issues.

ParentTime

After going through a free online registration process (indicating your child's age; whether you're a parent, single parent, grandparent, etc.), ParentTime presents information that's appropriate for you. You're still able to search by category at that point as well. Categories include: preemies, separation anxiety, sleep, thinking skills, etc. Unfortunately there are some bugs in their registration process. I registered as a parent of a 6 year old and as a 7 year old and both times was shown information about 6-7 MONTH olds!

Parent Soup

This site has a "we're all in this together" sort of atmosphere. Most of the information is arranged so that you, the reader, can pose questions or share information. It also offers an "ask the experts" area where you can pose questions to family counselors, behavior experts, pediatricians, activities planners, etc. Parent Soup also hosts several live chat forums where, once you've downloaded and installed the software available on this site, you can talk with other folks by typing messages back and forth..

Scholastic Network

Scholastic is purportedly the world's largest educational publisher and their web site is targeted at students and teachers. Their web site features information on their many book clubs through which low cost books relating to existing elementary and secondary school curricula may be ordered, as well as information on education programs and related materials they offer. While some of the site may be accessed by anyone, some portions are restricted to "members only." A trial membership is available for free, but full membership incurs a monthly fee.

Sibling Support Project

This site is aimed at the brothers and sisters of people with special needs. It contains back issues of the National Association of Sibling Programs (NASP) and Sib to Sib newsletters, information on the Sibling Support project, and a list of resources for these siblings.

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