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ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

This is a PowerPoint framework containing a series of teaching tools to facilitate discussion with children and teens who stutter. This site also provides an alternative means of expression which is highly motivational while targeting discussion of important treatment concepts.

This site offers interactive tools that can be of help to people with specific needs in using computers for communication and learning.

this app is designed to help you document all observations and considerations essential to an assistive technology evaluation. ATEval2Go transfers the recording functions accomplished by paper, heavy computer equipment and other devices to the portable and easy-to-use iPad interface. ATEval2Go provides a guide through the evaluation process and a thorough template for technology consideration including the ability to enter text, pictures, and audio about background information, environmental observations, tools already within the environment, student abilities based on targeted goals, and potential recommendations. 

Symbly is a new tool to create and share visual supports, communication boards, social narratives, and more. It features a powerful editor, an amazing community, expert examples, and an iPad app for supports on the go.

Articulation therapy ideas that were collected from postings from SLPs; practical and easy to use

This site provides a number of ideas for conducting articulation therapy. They include a variety of interactive tools and games developed by three expert clinicians.

This website provides many resources for cochlear implants, most are for children. It also includes manufacturer info, organizations for CI patients, suggested scales of development and assessment tools, books, etc.

Bookshare's goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities. Bookshare offers more than 50,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools. Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with a qualifying disability

Numerous desktop icons can be downloaded from a variety of categories. These icons can be used as a supplemental tool for interactive learning with computers.

This site provides an array of interactive tools including web resources, student materials, and class activities for literary acquisition. Students can engage in different reading, writing, listening, and vocabulary tasks to make the process of learning easy and fun.

This site provides an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate. An interactive tool for achieving visio-spatial learning objectives.

iPrompts provides several easy-to-use, visual prompting tools (no audio prompts or voice output) to help individuals transition from one activity to the next, understand upcoming events, make choices, and focus on the task at hand:

chart of instructional areas and the standard tools, modifications and accommodations, and AT solutions to support all students

The information below was extracted from the Stuttering Home Page by the SID4 Schools Task Force as links especially relevant to school-based speech-language clinicians serving children who stutter and their families.

online resources for clients, teachers, slp. assessment tools

This site provides tools for designing award certificates for children. Various categories of awards can be designed that can be printed. Such an activity would an encourage students in learning process and also social interactions.

This site provides access to acrostic poems which typically uses the letters in a topic word to begin each line. This can be an useful tool in-class to make the process vocabulary acquisition more challenging and interesting.

EXTENSIVE list of online resources - organized by topic

lot of links to info and tools on lots of disorders. Lots of good stuff on fluency assessment

"The Communication Matrix is an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals. It was first published in 1990 and was revised in 1996 and 2004 by Dr. Charity Rowland of Oregon Health & Science University. It was designed primarily for speech-language pathologists and educators to use to document the expressive communication skills of children who have severe or multiple disabilities, including children with sensory, motor and cognitive impairments."