Feature Websites Uniquely Gifted www.uniquelygifted.org Uniquely Gifted is a collection of resources for families with gifted/additional support needs children and professionals who work with them. If you want to learn more about specific special needs a dedicated page on the site includes links to other websites covering a wide range of issues. If you are still figuring out what your child's special needs are, you may also want to visit the section on Assessment (includes information on testing and Functional behavioural Assessments). Moreover there are a lot of resources for professionals including teachers, school heads and counselors.

New Horizons
www.newhorizons.org
New Horizons is a non-profit, international network of educators focused on identifying, communicating, and implementing the most effective teaching and learning strategies at all ages and abilities. The information on this website is freely available to anyone who can access the Internet. The various sections have resources for everyone including teachers, school administrators, professors and students of education, parents, policy-makers, and others interested in learning. A dedicated section on ‘Special Needs’ carries materials on inclusion teaching as well as an array of learning resources and strategies.

Children’s Disabilities Information
www.childrensdisabilities.info
This website features a lot of useful information on the additional support needs of children and the support required by the parents and caretakers. It contains a host of useful articles on parenting and on a number of disabilities. Interviews are also featured here with the authors who have written books for children with disabilities.

Special Olympics
www.specialolympics.org
Special Olympics is an international organization that changes lives by promoting understanding, acceptance and inclusion between people with and without intellectual disabilities. Through year-round sports training and athletic competition and other related programming for more than 2.5 million children and adults with intellectual disabilities in more than 180 countries, Special Olympics has created a model community that celebrates people’s diverse gifts. To get involved with Special Olympics, contact the Special Olympics Pakistan office in Karachi (see website for contact details).

Federal Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education
www.moswse.gov.pk
This website features the latest information about the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education. The programs undertaken and supported by the Ministry focus on the neglected, disadvantaged, underprivileged and exploited children, women, youth, the elderly, disabled, beggars, prisoners and ex-convicts etc. Contact details of Federal Minister and secretaries are available in the website.