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SPECIAL EDUCATION
& SPECIAL NEEDS
- Disabilities:
Attention Deficit Disorder
This site will provide comprehensive and helpful articles
on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) faced by many educators and families today.
- Handspeak
A practical sign language online dictionary. Contains
some signs not found in other online dictionaries. Approximately
2800 signs and growing daily.
- SignWritingSite
SignWriting makes it possible to have books, newspapers,
magazines, dictionaries, and literature written in signs.
It can be used to teach signs and signed language grammar
to beginning signers, or it can be used to teach other
subjects, such as math, history, or English to skilled
signers.
- Talking
Books Plus
The Office of Library and Information Systems (OLIS) provides
library services to eligible blind and physically handicapped
individuals in Rhode Island through Talking Books Plus,
the RI Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
- We
Media
We Media's mission is to empower persons with disabilities,
their families and friends by being a conduit for education,
knowledge, technology, entertainment, and numerous other
services in an exciting, convenient, and accessible fashion.
- Bry-Back
Manor
Fun stuff (games for a Macintosh)activity pages to print
& color, garden fun, holiday fun, newsletter, icons (clipart),
and miscellaneous for young children or children with
special needs.
- The
Grammar Gorillas
Special Needs pupils working on sentence construction
will enjoy this playful site, which employs cute graphics
in a game that tests knowledge of grammar terms and improves
overall literacy. The game is helpfully differentiated
into Beginners and Advanced stages, with pupils aiming
to feed the Grammar Gorillas by correctly identifying
nouns, verbs and other parts of speech.
- The
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
The AACAP site is concerned with developmental, behavioral
and mental disorders affecting young people. 'Facts for
Families' is a collection of introductory articles about
juvenile mental health and wellbeing. The articles suggest
ways of dealing with issues such as divorce and teenage
pregnancy, as well as a range of disorders.
- Net
Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
A catalog of internet resources relating to communication
disorders, speech therapy and science, and hearing impairments.
The site does not carry its own articles, but a staggering
array of links directs you towards information with an
academic slant.
- Places
for Struggling Teens
A resource for parents and professionals trying to help
at-risk teenagers.
- Special
Needs Education(SNE)
Comprehensive list of resources for teachers, parents,
and organizations.
- Preschool
Zone
This web site contains resources for early childhood special
eduation. View a database of teaching ideas organized
by theme.
- Animated
ASL Dictionary
Learn about American Sign Language with this animated
dictionary.
- Office
of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
The US Department of Education supports programs that
assist in educating children with special needs...and
research that strives to improve the lives of individual
with disABILITIES. Get the detail here.
- Perspectives
about Technology in Special Education
This link provides a research paper from the University
of Kentucky offers an in-depth look at the use of computers
and other forms of technology in special education. This
link is oriented to teachers and other special education
professionals.
- UVA
Special Education Site
A comprehensive site from the University of Virginia's
Curry School of Education includes a number of links for
parents and teachers of children with a variety of special
needs.
- The
WELCOME MAP
Do you know all that you should about special education?
Check out this special education home page separated by
disability classifications and categories.
- "Ooops...Wrong
Planet! Syndrome" Autism Disorders
Scroll down the page to get to over 300 Autism and Autism
related links and a list of Autism mail lists, newsgroups,
and forums.
- Where
Do We Go From Hear?
This web site contains information for families of infants
and children diagnosed with a hearing loss and the professionals
who work with these individuals.
- Blindness
Resource Center
This hotlist links to resources for the blind. Topics
include internet access, braille, eye diseases, organizations,
research, University programs for persons with disabilities,
vendors, and more.
- Special
Needs Opportunities Windows (SNOW)
Aimed at supporting teachers of students with special
needs throught distance education. SNOW also serves as
a clearinghouse of resources for those involved in special
education.
- Outside
the Box
This site, in addition to providing links to online resources,
also includes pages addressing the classroom needs of
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHS) students
and a description of what it is like to raise a child
with ADHS. This site is designed and maintained by a teacher
and a parent of an ADHD child.
- The
Special Education Home Page
Do you know all that you should about Special Education?
A Special Education resource for parents, and teachers.
- Internet
Resources for Special Children
This link provides valuable information for parents, family
members, caregivers, friends, educators, and medical professionals
who interact with children who have disABILITIES.
- Learning
Disabilities OnLine
"One of the biggest struggles was to understand that I
was a little different and that was OK." An interactive
guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers,
and children.
- Attention
Deficit Disorder
50 tips on the classroom management of Attention Deficit
Disorder.
- BIG
PAGE of Special Education Resources
Contained are links to many sites that will be useful
to educators who work with students that have special
needs.
- Learning
Disabilities Association LDA (formerly ACLD, the Association
for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities) is
the only national organization devoted to defining and
finding solutions for the broad spectrum of learning disabilities.
This site includes topics such as dyslexia, inclusion,
post-secondary entrance tests, and research.
- SERI
- Special Ed Resource on the Internet
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is
a collection of Internet accessible information resources
of interest to those involved in the fields related to
Special Education. This collection exists in order to
make on-line Special Education resources more easily and
readily available in one location.
- Dyslexia
Web Sites
Connect to The Dyslexia Archive, read Facts About Dyslexia
(an article from the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development), and review Individual Education
Plan Resources.
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