Online Publications & Resources
The Sherlock Center offers hundreds of online resources and publications on topics across the lifespan, from early intervention to transition to person-centered thinking, employment and self-determination.
These resources are searchable in the fields below. You can search by a keyword or an exact title in the “Search All Resources” box or you can search by project/service, topic or type – form, online resource or Sherlock Center publication.
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Online Resource
Social and Emotional Health: A Guide for Families with Children Birth to Age 8
This publication of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Michigan Department of Education, Office of Great Start and The Early Childhood Investment Corporation outlines social-emotional development with tips by age group.
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15 Principles for Reading to Deaf Children
This resource includes 15 principles that are best practices for how to read aloud to deaf and hard of hearing children, based on research on how Deaf parents read to their Deaf children. These principles were developed to give parents and teachers of deaf children skills and strategies for reading aloud in American Sign Language.
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211, United Way Rhode Island
211 is a free, confidential service that connects you with the appropriate resources you need in your community. Get help with housing, food, affordable childcare and much more.
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7 Point Scale for Measuring Child Outcomes
This form explains the 7 summary statements used to describe a child's functioning as compared to same age peers both when entering, and when exiting EI. Used in conjunction with Decision Tree.
- PDF English 234.21 KB
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Sherlock Center Publication
A Family Guide to Inclusion
This guide provides parents and caregivers with common features of inclusive education they should look for when evaluating proposed educational plans for their children.
- PDF 815.36 KB
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Sherlock Center Publication
A Guide to Accessing Employment Supports from the RI Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD)
This flow chart helps individuals with disabilities access employment supports, choose how to manage funds and services, and write a plan and start services.
- PDF Spanish 216.12 KB
- PDF English 153.84 KB
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Sherlock Center Publication
A Guide to Your Child's Vision Assessment
This brochure is for parents and caregivers to support the evaluation of a child's vision. It includes a list of pediatric ophthalmologists.
- PDF English 331.42 KB
- PDF Spanish 1010.4 KB
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A Parent's Guide to the Self-Determined Learning Model for Early Elementary Students
A publication of Beach Center on Disability and Schiefelbusch Institute for Lifespan Studies at the University of Kansas, this book provides a guide for problem-solving and goal-setting for parents to use with children. This publication also is available for loan from the Resource Library at the Sherlock Center.
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AAC Learning Center
The AAC Learning Center hosts a wide variety of webcasts (recordings) by AAC researchers, and co-presentations with people who use AAC.
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ABC Flash Cards for Kids (Android)
This app features ABC's on flash cards with a letter on the front and a picture on the back and includes seven types of games that help teach the English alphabet.
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Accessibility Using Uber
Uber’s technology is helping to increase mobility and independence for riders with disabilities, with features such as cashless payment, service animal policies, wheelchair-accessible vehicles equipped with ramps or lifts, wait time fee waivers, ability to share ETA and location with family and more.
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Accessible Resources, East Bay Educational Collaborative
The East Bay Educational Collaborative, a partner of the Assistive Technology Access Partnership (ATAP), lends assistive technology devices to "try before you buy." Training and demonstrations are available for educators, families, professionals and students.
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Accessible Rhode Island
Accessible Rhode Island was established in 2001 to survey and recognize local businesses that are accessible to persons with disabilities. Since the inception of the program, over 1,200 venues in Rhode Island have been visited and surveyed to determine accessibility.
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ADAPT
ADAPT (formerly American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) is a United States grass-roots disability rights organization with chapters in 30 states and Washington, D.C.
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Adaptive Telephone Equipment Loan Program (ATEL), Office of Rehabilitation Services
The Rhode Island Adaptive Telephone Equipment Loan (ATEL) Program provides landline/home telephones and wireless devices on loan to qualified individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, have a speech disability, or have neuromuscular damage or disease that hinders them from using a standard telephone. The ATEL Program offers a Hearing and Speech Lab which will offer iPad/iPhone training and have the following devices available for FREE demonstrations, as well as, many devices available for short term loans.
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Adolescent Health Transition Program
This program of the Rhode Island Department of Health site provides families with publications and more to assist adolescents with disabilities transition and successfully transfer to the adult systems of health care, education, employment and insurance.
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Advance Directives
Rhode Islanders have the right to control decisions related to their medical care and to authorize others to make medical decisions for them if they become unable to do so themselves. Living wills and power of attorney are tools that may help with decision making.
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Advocates in Action Rhode Island
Advocates in Action Rhode Island is a statewide self-advocacy organization. Its mission is to empower people who have a developmental disability to advocate for themselves and others, to support and strengthen the self‐advocacy movement and to raise awareness about disability issues in the community.