Native American Family Support (NAFS) is a project that uses computer-based training for staff and families working with people with developmental disabilities. Our main focus is on providing information related to schools, but we also offer a lot of helpful suggestions for elders and young adults.

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HOW TO USE THESE PAGES--

If you are using the NAFS webpages you are either on the Internet or using a CD-ROM. Most things work pretty much the same whichever one you use. If you are not at all used to computers, the information below will help you.

Hopping around on the page:

To go BACK to a page, click on the back arrow that you see at the top of the computer on the left side.

Click on the arrow at the top of the window and it will take you to the page where you were before this one. If this is the first page you looked at, clicking on the back arrow won't do anything, because you weren't at a page before this one.

Clicking on the arrow at the top of the window pointing to the right will take you to the page where you were after this one. If you didn't go to any pages after you looked at this one, clicking on the forward arrow won't do anything.

Try this now -- click on the left arrow and then on the right arrow AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE. Clicking on the left and right arrows just above this sentence won't get you anywhere.

If you did that, clicked on the left arrow (to go to the page you were first) and then the right arrow (to go to the page where you were next) you should have ended up right back here. If you didn't, well, I guess you are lost and we can't help you. Try it again. Click on the left arrow and then on the right. An easily amused person could do this all day.

Whenever text on these pages is highlighted in blue, if you click on it, it will take you to a different page. This is called a LINK. Try clicking on the next sentence to go to the first page on Individual Education Plans (IEPs). Click here to go to the page on IEPs,

then use the left arrow at the top of the page to come back here.

You can use the right, left, up and down arrow keys on your keyboard to move around on the page. Try it now.

You can also use the mouse to move the arrow you see on the computer up and down the page.

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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT WEBSITES

A WEB PAGE is a single page of information. You may need to scroll (move with the mouse or arrow keys) down to see the entire page.

A WEBSITE is a collection of pages linked together.

A WEB BROWSER is a type of software that lets you see web pages. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Safari and Camino are some common web browser.

The Native American Family Support website is maintained on a server through the Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation Project, which uses the North Dakota Telephone Company for its webhosting services. However, you may not have Internet access, or your Internet access may be very slow because you are dialing up on a regular phone line.

To get to the NAFS website, all you need to do is put in the top line of your web browser - www.spiritlakevr.org/NAFS/

A HOME PAGE is the first page you would come to in a website. It is also a common page to link back to. The NAFS home page has an index of all of the topics covered on our website and we update it at least weekly, sometimes daily.

Wherever you see the smoke signals, you can either click on the picture or the link and return to the NAFS home page. Click on it below, and then use the back arrow to come back here.

Return to Native American Family Support Home Page

Click here for more information on how to use NAFS