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Special Education

Educational Definitions

Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors
Terminology used to describe research and practice in Australian education (used by A+ Education)
ERIC Thesaurus
Subject descriptors used in the ERIC database.
Greenwood Dictionary of Education
Authoritative definitions for terms that apply to educational research, practice, and theory.
Learning and Performance Glossary
Terms and definitions used in education and training.

Subject Dictionaries

A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Designed to meet the needs of beginners in all the social sciences. The entries include social psychological terms, terms in social and cultural anthropology, terms common to political science, social administration and social work.
The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
Definitions of terms used in psychology.

General Dictionaries

American Heritage Roget's Thesaurus
A wide range of synonyms organized in alphabetical order.
Cambridge English Dictionaries
Online access to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and some other dictionaries published by Cambridge University Press.
Collins English Dictionary
General dictionary
Macquarie Dictionary
General Australian dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Large general dictionary available online.
Penguin English Dictionary
General dictionary
Thesaurus.com
Search a word to find synonyms and related words.
Wordsmyth
An online dictionary and thesaurus.