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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Form

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Form

    Accounts manager - Adding a New Agency

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Form

    Acknowledgement Letter

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.

  • Online Resource

    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.