Hello and welcome to my Special Education Information Page!! 

SPED Websites for Teachers, Parents, and Students

Contributions from Edlio, cyrus@caring4ourkids.com Parking4Less, Wondermoms. Students of EDEX 639, CSUSM, Fall 2008

"The Full Guide to Flying with a Disability"
https://www.parking4less.com/flying-with-a-disability/

Attending US Music & Sporting Events with a Disability 
https://www.groupon.com/coupons/content/safety-guide-for-attending-events-with-disability

A Home Safety Checklist for Wheelchair Users
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=/home-safety-checklist-wheelchair-users

Rights for People with Disabilities
Managing Your Child’s Transition to Adulthood
Guide to Remodeling a Home for Adults with Special Needs
Special Needs Checklist: How Disability-Friendly is Your City?
The 9 Most Hazardous Chemicals for People With Special Needs
Vocational Training for Adults with Special NeedsLegal Resources for Special Needs
Keeping Disabled Persons Safe While Remodeling
Creating a Home Where Your Disabled Child can Thrive
Teacher Resources for Special Needs
Disability and Credit Scores
Home Accommodations for Special Needs
Disability Resources from the Department of Labor
Tips for Disabled Persons to Declutter and Organize their Home
Financial Planning for Special Needs

http://autism.sesamestreet.org/ Sesame Street Autism Resources for Parents

https://www.retailmenot.com/blog/sensory-overload-while-shopping.html Reduce the Noise: Help Loved Ones with Sensory Overload Enjoy Shopping

http://www.militaryfamily.org/info-resources/efmp-special-needs.html Resources for Military Families

www.yourstoragefinder.com/moving-with-special-needs-kids Moving with Special Needs Kids

http://www.homecity.com/creating-a-home-where-your-child-can-thrive-with-a-disability Home Modifications for Special Needs Kids

http://www.washington.edu/doit/academic-accommodations-students-learning-disabilities Academic Accommodation Resources

https://www.justgreatlawyers.com/estate-planning-for-parents-of-children-with-autism Estate Planning for Parents of Special Needs Kids 

www.MrDonn.org  This is a wonderful resource for accessing lesson plans, interactive PowerPoint, fun links and websites for all subject areas.

http://www.pent.ca.gov/index.htm  This is a website that gives resources and ideas for behavior management. It is consistently updated for ideas and regulations for Behavior Support Plans as well.

https://householdquotes.co.uk/disability-accommodation-guide/ This is a comprehensive guide to home adaptations for disabled people.

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education.  This web site offers valuable resources for anybody working with young children and/or have young children themselves.

www.teacch.com   This site discusses an excellent program called TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children) for instructing children with Autism and other related disabilities  in a home and/or classroom setting. 

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Art67.htm I don't know how many of you teach art, but I am supposed to, and every week so far I am scrambling around trying to find activities that are creative, fun, time consuming, and appropriate for my class.

http://www.centerforautism.com// Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. (CARD) is among the world's largest and most experienced organizations effectively treating children with autism and related disorders.

http://www.interventioncentral.org/   This site offers a plethora of resources at one location. It touts that it offers “free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.”  

http://ww.henryot.com/news/sensory_diet_applictions_review.asp  Sensory Diet Applications and Environmental Modifications: A Winning combination. This web site is a great source of information for any teacher.

http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu  The website consists of "Star Legacy Modules" which are great learning tools.  Each module is divided into five parts: the challenge, initial thoughts, perspectives and resources, assessment, and a wrap-up.

http://www.schoolsmovingup.net/cs/wested/print/htdocs/rr_map.htm  Sensory Diet Applications and Environmental Modifications: A Winning combination. This web site is a great source of information for any teacher. 

www.snapgrades.com  An online gradebook. Some of my favorite features include: password protected-for you, parents and student; teacher can reset passwords if necessary; teacher can view family/student login log; weight grades; print out a report cards/progress reports, welcome letter, gradebook; create a seating chart & with a click it will randomly change their seats. 

http://www.wrightslaw.com/  Wrightslaw is a resource for us, special educators. On the website you will find everything that pertains to Special Education, from Advocacy to Transition and back again.  It literally has everything. 

http://unitedstreaming.com  1 (800) 323-9034 Discovery Education Unitedstreaming is a digital video-based learning resource proven to increase academic achievement. It features more than 5, 000 full-length videos divided into content specific video segments, allowing the teacher to integrate digital media into the classroom.

http://www.nwea.org/  At this site I access data from the MAP, Measures for Academic Progress. RUSD has chosen this instrument to access and give data on student academic achievement and growth over the school year.  It is a state-aligned computer adaptive test.

http://www.readingrockets.org/  This site takes you to SO many different resources and articles, leading you in the direction of effectively working with students who struggle.  Some of the places it will take you are: Techniques for Teaching Reading Effectively, Who’s At Risk, there is a section for teachers (First Year Teachers) and so much more.

http://www.autismteachingtools.com/page/bbbbfg/bbbbbc  I have a site that I used to learn about Autism and tools for teachers and parents to assist their child in learning.  This page has many useful links to not only inform but to better equip parents and teachers in working with and teaching children with Autism. 

http://www.sandbox-learning.com/  I have found this site (Sandbox Learning) useful for making social stories.  This site has social stories that have already been created (with pictures) and you can customize them for each individual child (by inserting child's name and other specifics that relate to each child).

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/  This website has Time for Kids magazine articles, overviews, teacher's guide, worksheets, and more. Time for Kids gives our students an opportunity to read a magazine so they feel more mature and have access to non-fiction text, which they sometimes are rarely exposed to. 

http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/survival_shore.html#Survival  The above website takes you to one of the pages on the O.A.S.I.S (Online Asperger's Syndrome Information and Support) website.  This website has an article written by a young man about his experiences working in the workplace and strategies he uses to survive the workday!  

http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.html  Family Village is a great guide to information for people with disabilities and their families, friends, teachers, and caregivers. It would be a great web site to give parents for finding information on any special need there is.

http://spedex.com/resource/documents/cbi/cbi.htm.  It is called “Orientation and Mobility/Community-Based Instruction Scope and Sequence Chart” by Karyl Moore.  It consists of a series of scopes and sequences per subject matter.  These are in the areas of communication, numeric functions, daily living skills, law/social interactions, personal/recreation skills, and fine art.    

www.ldonline.org  This site calls itself "The world's leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD". After spending a few minutes navigating the site, I would agree!  The site is well organized, colorful and easy to use.

http://www.specialconnections.ku.edu  This is a great site with "Teacher Tools", "Research", "Case Studies", "Online", and "Collaboration" links to four focus areas to help teachers working with students with disabilities in general education classrooms: Instruction, Behavior Plans, Collaboration, and Assessment. 

http://www.pent.ca.gov/forms.htm  It has a wealth of forms to choose from. I used the BSP and Manifestation Determination forms to be very helpful.  There is also a form "Thinking About My Inappropriate Behavior". 

http://specialed.about.com/od/disabilities/a/downs.htm This site is extremely informative and educational as a teacher.  It shares strategies on inclusion, self-esteem issues, intellectual information, short attention spans, distractibility, Speech and Language, Behavior Management Techniques, and much more.

http://www.questia.com/library/psychology/counseling-and-therapy/behavior-modification.jsp  This web site lists a variety of different articles that are strictly on behavior modifications and give data collections of different interventions that are possible.  There is a lot of information that can be found in these and teachers as well as parents can benefit from them.

http://www.starfall.com/  This is a great website that I used almost every day when I taught a 3-5th SH class. It has a letter menu that students can click on and the animated letter does a little special clip and say's its name.  It also has interactive reading and writing exercises.

www.teachervision.com  I create material, purchase material, borrow material, and use the Internet to searc
for material.  Teacher Vision has become one of the most useful resources I use to find material.

www.gradebook.org  This website is a great resource for secondary and primary teachers, parents and students.  It has topics ranging from character education to specific subject areas, bulletin board ideas, and lesson plans.  Students can access homework help and information in specific subject areas.

http://www.teach.com/structureteach.html  This web site points out that despite the fact that it is common knowledge that structure in the classroom is needed in order to effectively teach children with autism there is minimal understanding of how to plan for and use the concept of structure as it relates to these children.

http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/shoulders_of_giants/  I happened across On the Shoulders of Giants (OtSoG) a few nights ago and since then, I've been happily reading away. While I don't think this website will really fit into a web resource, it is very interesting for a few reasons. First, the website is written by a 4th year English teacher in one of Brooklyn's (NYC) failing schools.

www.enchantedlearning.com  I found this website extremely helpful last year, teaching in a K-4 elementary school.  You can scan subjects and categories for activities, booklets, information, etc.  You are able to design your own worksheets (math, spelling, etc.) or  you can peruse the available samples.

http://teach-nology.com/ The Online teacher resource is another excellent web site with too many resources to list. I especially like the different theme resources and the fact that most of them have printable worksheets, coloring pages, puzzles and even cooking recipes.

http://autism4teachers.com/autism4teachers_051.htm  This website, created and maintained by teachers in Florida, has a wealth of resources regarding Autism. They have sections on inclusion, training your paraprofessional, data templates for informal assessments, social skills, and many more. There are also curriculum support ideas in Reading, Math, Spelling, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts.

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/  The site offers links to a variety of websites and articles to help teachers. Teach-nology states that it has “over 150,000 reviews of sites that teachers can use as resources.” The site is simple and user friendly.  I especially liked the link to the Special Education site.

http://www.inspiration.com 
http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/kidspiration/index.cfm (gets you to kidspiration page) This website comes recommended by my resource specialist who has used it to provide me with visuals for my students.  There is a lot offered on this website but the part she uses is kidspiration.  The website slogan is that it "Inspires students to visualize, think, organize and learn."

www.tinsnips.org.  This site has a wealth of helpful information for communication systems such as PECS boards for classroom activities such as art time and tons of behavior modification resources such as visual cues and schedules.  There are also many great social skills activities and theme based monthly activities to do in your classroom.

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm  The above website is called ASL browser. You can click on any letter of the alphabet and a long list of words come up.  Then, there is a video of someone signing that word and an written explanation of how to sign it as well.  It's very user friendly.

http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net  The MonkeyNotes web-site is a comprehensive site offering over 1400 different literature booknotes literally from A-Z. Just type in name of a Title or Author in the search box and you will get any results that match the words you list.  You can make a purchase of a downloadable literature booknote for around $8.00.

http://www.cindysautisticsupport.com/asteachersites.html  This is a great site with tons of information and links to support and teach children with autism.  I especially like the "Tinsnips" link.  I like using the cooking lessons.  They are step by step simple, and easy to follow instructions with pictures.  You can download them, laminate and keep in a large envelope to start a classroom recipe collection from which to choose from each week. Happy cooking! :)

http://www.educationworld.com  This is a great web site with tons of information, articles, lesson plans, links to other resources, professional development, technology information, etc.  I just downloaded an interesting lesson plan on the use of commas for grades 6-8, 9-12. 

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/kidsWeb/fpwdinfo.html  This website was a self-esteem saver for one of my students.  If you have any students struggling with the idea of having a disability this site helped me out.

http://teens.drugabuse.gov/mom/tg_intro.asp http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih2/addiction/guide/guide_lessons_toc.htm  I co-taught with a wonderful teacher and we used these two web sites to develop some fun lessons. We were able to use a multimodal approach with a lot of visuals by using the web sites. We made pipe cleaner neurons and watched how neurons communicated and the effect drugs have on that communication.

http://www.studentambassadors.org  PTPI was established by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. The company’s current President and CEO is Eisenhower’s granddaughter. On this site, you can sign up to be a teacher leader and accompany students on trips to various locations around the world.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/03/28/sl.autism.irpt/index.html  This website: www.CNN.com has reviewed a virtual resource center for people with autism, and a virtual world where people with autism may experience social interaction.  “David Savill, 22, lives in Gloucester, England, in real life and created this spot within the virtual world of Second Life. Residents of this digital realm can represent themselves with 3-D images called avatars and connect with each other over the Internet”.  The virtual world is :http://secondlife.com/ and looks to be a very cool place for older kids and adults with autism.

http://www.twu.edu/inspire/Fact_Sheets/emotional.html  This is a site that covers the basic terminology of different emotional disturbances.  Then it sends you off to look at another site called http://www.rethink.org/.  I hope these sites help you when you need to learn more about one or more of the emotional disturbances that affect your students or loved ones.