Online Publications & Resources

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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 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

    Engaging Cooperation through Choice and Preference

    This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter provides a set of tips, organized into a planning guide, to help a person succeed at tasks they don't want to do.

  • Form

    Entering a Screening Tool (No Signature)

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Form

    Entering a Session Note

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Online Resource

    Essential Tools: Community Resource Mapping

    This handbook provides step-by-step instructions on understanding, planning and coordinating community resources that support the transition of youth with disabilities into adult life.

  • Form

    Evaluation Plan

    Evaluation worksheet for procedures for SSIP.

  • Online Resource

    Experiences Build Brain Architecture

    This video is from Three Core Concepts in Early Development, a three-part video series from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

  • Form

    FERPA Practice and Redisclosures

    This document provides information on the laws governing confidentiality practices for Early Intervention.

  • Online Resource

    Find, Choose and Keep Great DSPs

    This publication is a toolkit for people with disabilities looking for quality, caring and committed direct support professionals.

  • Online Resource

    Finding Common Ground: Working Together to Resolve Behavioral

    This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter discusses how to maximize collaboration to create behavior support plans that incorporate multiple perspectives and can be adapted across environments.

  • Online Resource

    Fostering Self-Determination among Children with Disabilities -Ideas from Parents for Parents

    This guide from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides a menu of ideas developed by parents for parents to promote self-determination for children with disabilities. This publication also is available for loan from the Resource Library at the Sherlock Center.

  • Online Resource

    Free Dental Clinics in Rhode Island

    This site allows users to find clinics in their city or town that provide free, low-cost or slicing-scale dental services.

  • Online Resource

    Friends: Connecting People with Disabilities and Community Members: A Manual for Families

    Angela Novak Amado, Ph.D., wrote this manual to help people with disabilities increase community membership and belonging, and promote relationships with community members.

  • Online Resource

    Got Transition®

    Got Transition®, the national resource center on health care transition (HCT) aims to help youth and young adults move from pediatric to adult health care.

  • Online Resource

    Governor's Workforce Board

    The Governor’s Workforce Board is Rhode Island’s primary policy-making body on workforce development matters. It helps Rhode Islanders find a job and build a career, while helping employers meet their demand for talent.

  • Form

    Guidance for Testing

    Welligent electronic record resource.

  • Form

    Guidance: Intake Processes an IFSP Review

    This document provides guidance to EI providers for streamlining intake process.

  • Form

    Guiding Questions for Caregivers and Teachers

    Use this form to gather information from multiple sources on the child's functioning. Information is arranged by the 3 child outcome areas.

  • Form

    Guiding Questions for Families

    Use this form to gather information from family members on the child's functioning within the 3 Child Outcome Areas.

  • Online Resource

    Habitat for Humanity of Greater Providence and East Bay

    Founded in 1987, this affiliate serves Providence, Pawtucket, North Providence, Central Falls, East Providence, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport, Jamestown, Tiverton and Little Compton.

  • Online Resource

    Habitat for Humanity West Bay and Northern Rhode Island

    This affiliate began 1995 in the West Bay area and expanded into the northern Rhode Island area in 2000. This affiliate serves Burrillville, Coventry, Cranston, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Foster, Glocester, Johnston, Lincoln, North Scituate, Smithfield, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick and Woonsocket.