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1 The Childhood Cancer Ombudsmen Program (CCOP)
The Childhood Cancer Ombudsmen Program (CCOP) provides Ombudsmen support for families dealing with insurance, educational, and employment issues. E-mail and we will connect you with one of our resourceful Ombudsmen.
2 Center for NeuroSkills
This site provides information about traumatic brain injury. In addition, graphics, animations, rehabilitation information, and other helpful materials are included.
3 National Dissemination Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
National Dissemination Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)is a central source for children and youth with disabilities. This site includes information pertaining to: disabilities in infants, children and youth; IDEA (legal rights for special education; No Child Left Behind for children with disabilities; and research based information.
4 National Center for Learning Disabilities
Works to ensure that the nation's 15 million children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work and life.
5 Nearly one-third of former brain tumor patients require special education services
CBTF Advisor Paul Fisher weighs in. Children who survive brain cancer struggle for years with the malevolent echo of the disease and its treatment, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Nearly one-third of former brain tumor patients require special education services, and many suffer from chronic headaches, nausea and seizures.
6 First Of Its Kind Report On How Children With Brain Tumors Perform At School
ScienceDaily (Jul. 17, 2007)
7 LD Online
Understanding the Differences Between IDEA and Section 504
By: Council for Exceptional Children (2002)

8 Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
9 Axistive
Axistive provides assistive technology, such as books on tape, recordings, sound reproducers, and other helpful technologies.
10 Brain tumors in children and adolescents: Cognitive and psychological disorders at different ages
Psychooncology. 2005; 14(5):386-95 (ISSN: 1057-9249)
11 HemOnc Today: Childhood Brain Tumors: Is the future now? RJ Packer