This website provides general information about organizations and agencies that offer a variety of services and support for persons with disabilities and information for 19 different disabilities and syndromes, all of which are listed either as separate categories or within categories of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.

The website provides information, including research, regarding the areas of gifted education.

This is a website for a program/center in Atlanta, GA. One of the therapies they offer is the iLS (Integrated Listening System) which uses specific music to develop/enhance the cochlear system.

The Prism Project is a partnership between The School of Music, the Department of Theater and Dance, Interlock, the Sibshops (2009 and 2010), Autism Advocates of Indiana (2011), the Muncie Public Schools, and the greater Muncie Community.

Founded in 2009 by Michael Daehn, associate professor of theatre education; Ryan Hourigan, director of the School of Music; and Amy Hourigan, instructor of music education; through a Ball State immersive learning grant, the goal of the Prism Project is two-fold.

First and foremost, it is a performing arts program for students with special needs. Second, it is a training ground for Ball State students who wish to work with children who have exceptionalities.

The Spectrum Project is a program at the University of Northern Iowa that combines music, movement, drama and art for children with differing abilities. Productions are created by the ideas of the performers with direction from college students. The Spectrum Project was modeled after the Ball State Prism Project.

This is a special camp, as it is called ACM: Lifting Lives Music Camp for People with Developmental Disabilities. On the Vanderbilt KC website, links are provided to research on developmental disabilities.

Founded over 25 years ago by Budd and Dolores Hagen, parents of a child with a disability, Closing The Gap provides professionals, parents and consumers with the information and training necessary to best locate, compare and implement assistive technology into the lives of persons with disabilities.

Through the annual international conference, magazine and Web site, Closing The Gap provides practical and sound content, technologies and a network of professional support to help participants and subscribers gain the insight, knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions and effectively and immediately evoke change.

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides professional development, advocates for individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.

Services Provided include:

• Professional development opportunities and resources

• 17 divisions for specialized information

• Journals and newsletters with information on new research findings, classroom practices that work, federal legislation, and policies

• Conventions and conferences

• Special education publications

This is the website of a non-profit research based organization that seeks to combine neuroscience and education. One of the programs they offer is the K-5 math plus music program, which is exactly as it appears, using music to develop math skills.

The SMT Interest Group on Music and Disability seeks to foster conversation among musicians about music-historical and music-theoretical issues related to disability, drawing on recent developments in the new, interdisciplinary field of Disability Studies. The group also serves as an advocate for greater accessibility in all areas of music theory scholarship and pedagogy.