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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

    Prepare RI

    This partnership between state government, private industry leaders, the public education system, universities and nonprofits across the state prepares all Rhode Island youth with the skills they need for jobs that pay.

  • Online Resource

    Preschool Games -Farm Animals By Photo Touch (iOS)

    Play with colorful animals by touching or sliding anywhere on the screen in this free app designed for iPads.

  • Form

    Prior Written Notice and Consent for Multidisciplinary Evaluation / Assessment and Eligibility / IFSP Meeting

    Use this form to give parents prior notice and to obtain consent for their child to be evaluated for EI eligibility.

  • Online Resource

    Pro-Train Dog Training

    Pro-Train accepts qualified applicants for service dog training from throughout the United States.

  • Form

    Procedures and FAQs for DCYF Referrals

    This document provides information on the procedures and FAQs for DCYF Referrals.

  • Form

    Process for Children Referred to Early Intervention (within 45 days of age 3)

    Referral process for children referred within 45 days of age 3.

  • Online Resource

    Project Aspiro

    This career planning and employment resource is for people who are blind or partially sighted.

  • Online Resource

    Project Core

    This tool is designed to help you determine which common Universal Core vocabulary format might be a good fit for the student(s) you support. After you answer the questions, you will be directed to the format that is likely a good place to start.

  • Online Resource

    Promoting Self-Regulation in the First Five Years: A Practice Brief

    Early childhood is a period of rapid brain development that paves the way for growth of self-regulation skills. Promoting self-regulation capacity in the first five years of life can help children develop critical skills like attentional control, problem-solving and coping strategies for managing distressing environmental or emotional experiences. This brief is designed for early childhood leaders.

  • Sherlock Center Publication

    Raising the Self-Determined Child

    This resource provides tips for parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities to foster self-determination. Topics include choice making, goal setting, decision making and problem solving.

  • Sherlock Center Publication

    Raising the Self-Determined Child: Family Workbook

    This workbook will help parents teach self-determination skills to their children and help them learn to set their own goals.

  • Online Resource

    Ready Tool for Transition

    The Ready Tool from the National Center on Deafblindness helps transition teams identify steps for the transition process to create an action plan and develop goals and objectives for the IEP and transition plans. Tools are available for four age groups.

  • Online Resource

    Real Jobs RI

    This business-led workforce development initiative works with a network of employers, training providers,and community organizations to build workforce solutions that address industries’ unique workforce challenges.

  • Online Resource

    Real Life Quality Standards

    This guidebook focuses on implementing self-determination for individuals who experience disability as an introduction to rethinking what we mean by quality in human services.

  • Form

    Referral and Demographics

    EI providers will record information on the referral source, parent/caregiver contact information, and child and family demographics. This supports RI's data and federal reporting requirements.

  • Form

    Referral Response Template

    Use this template to create an acknowledgement of referral for EI.

  • Online Resource

    Reporting Suspected Abuse to BHDDH

    The state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals provides information on how to report suspected abuse of individuals who have a developmental disability or individuals with a disability living in the community.

  • Form

    Response to Referral

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Form

    Response to Referral Talking Points

    Provider guidance of a sample letter to acknowledge referral source.

  • Online Resource

    Rhode Island APSE

    This local organization exclusively focuses on integrated employment and career advancement opportunities for individuals with disabilities.