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- 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. |
