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Family and Community Resources for Special Education Students
The Internet provides a rich set of family and community resources for Special Education Students.
FamilyVillage in Wisconsin also provides resources for the whole family. The Academy for Educational Development houses the resources for the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY). Altogether, both groups offer a strong corpus of resources for special educators--both on and offline.
Learning Disabilities Online includes useful information for adults (and also students).
Thanks to the animation capabilities of the Web, Animated American Sign Language Dictionary lets you see American Sign Language. Other projects at the Michigan State University site include a Word Processor and ASL-English dictionary.
Disabilities Information Resources, both for and about the disabled, offer regularly updated news for researchers, businesses and clients, including international resources.
As a companion piece to its PBS series on students with learning disabilities, Misunderstood Minds includes links to articles and centers which would be especially helpful to families. The Bush administration has consolidated programs for adults with disabilities, so here is the link (Federal Disability) in case you need it for one of you students' parents.
Kodak has compiled various activities in which special education students, including severely retarded, can express themselves and learn basic skills via photography. While not technology intensive, these activities can be led by parents or teachers. All are intended to raise students' self-concept.
The Awesome Library portal for special education contains comprehensive topics, such as disabilities and home schooling.
One of the best sources for pointers to assistive technologies is Alliance for Technology Access. This site includes a comprehensive listing of resource centers and vendors.
Schwab Learning has spun out a site just for young students, Spark Top.Another site, All Kinds of Minds, another spinoff, based on the work of Mel Levine, offers activities for kids while serving its main purpose--educating parents about the origin and resources for students with learning difficulties. Some resources are available in Spanish, too.
Disabilities Resources at the Federal Level
http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public
/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=500
Kodak Lesson Plans for Special Needs Students
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education
/lessonPlans/indices/specialEducation.shtml
Data can be mustered to demonstrate the benefits of homogeneous and heterogeneous grouping in classrooms, in this case learning disabled and gifted students. Folks hold quite strong opinions on this issue. One advantage of telecommunications, especially if a classroom houses a large number of computers, is that a wide range of capability levels can be accommodated for both individual and group work. The key is to challenge each student and foster mutual respect.
For district coordinators of Special Education the DOE has placed the new provisions of the umbrella legislation, IDEA, online.
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