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"Thousands of new school places are being created for children with special educational needs or those facing additional challenges in mainstream education, providing tailored support to help children thrive. Every region in the country will benefit from a new school, which include 37 special free schools and two alternative provision free schools. This will create around 3,500 additional school places, boosting choice for parents and providing specialist support and education for pupils with complex needs such as autism, severe learning difficulties or mental health conditions, and those who may have been or are at risk of being excluded from mainstream schools."

written by special education students, for special education students!

Special ed apps

There is a special hashtag that isn't tied to an event like this though.  It's a common event that's happening in classrooms world-wide.  The hashtag is "comments4kids".  This is a special tag that teachers use to invite anyone who is willing to drop by and read what a class is blogging.  It's also an invitation for you to make a comment or two on what you read. 

A collection of simple Makaton signing videos from the BBC's outstanding children's programme Something Special. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs

Apps for children with special needs.

In this webinar, expert in eBooks Meredith Wemhoff discusses ways to engage and support learners with special needs using eBooks and audio. Using the case-study of an independent all-boys school located in Surrey, the school provides special needs students an opportunity to succeed and thrive. Many arrive to the 80-year-old institution with low self-confidence, often due to struggles they faced in traditional educational institutions caused by learning and language difficulties. This means providing a collection that meets the individual learning needs of the school's 470 students, who range in age from 8-18. ​​​​​​​ During this eye-opening webinar, Meredith will share the story of selecting, launching and promoting a digital library service that helps address learning challenges. Attendees will come away with best practices for bringing ebooks and audiobooks to their school and real-life examples of these practices in action. Don't miss out, register today!

The Special Interest Group (SIG) Program offers ISTE members year-round opportunities to connect and collaborate with like-minded colleagues. From mobile learning to arts education, there's a SIG for you!

Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral

The latest in a series of #UKEdChat Subject Specials

#ukedchat infograph summary from Geography Subject Special, from http://ukedchat.com/2013/11/28/session-179-geography-subject-special/

Strategies that help students with special needs successfully access the general education curriculum. Great collection of resources

Summary and Storify from #UKEdChat Literacy Subject Special

"Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs."

This is a website to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in edudcation with emphasis in Special education. We have been collecting material over the last 7 years. This is our attempt to put together all that information in a categorized format so parents, educators and other professionals who work with kids with special needs can benefit from the knowledge we already acquired.

Apps for children with special needs

A great variety of iPad apps specifically collected for students with learning differences. All of the ones I've checked out so far are free or under a dollar.

Paying banks to lower SPED costs?  Sure, I can see how that makes sense.  Paying the schools to serve the students sure has been a silly solution for all these years, and so simple Thank goodness that the DOE and the banks have made this clearer.