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resource for parents of children with learning and attention issues. See the world through your students' eyes Understood's Through Your Child's Eyes is a one-of-a-kind tool. Its videos and simulations allow you to experience what it's like for your students to struggle with reading, writing, math, organization or staying focused. Hear stories from children and find out from experts why these tasks can be so challenging for some kids. And learn strategies to help your students thrive. Create your personalized experience on Understood.org now. http://u.org/1nWvuWK

An app to help assistive technology professionals complete evaluations and consultations!

List of books with repeated lines useful for helping students practice learning to read or learn language. When teaching language, use stories and songs with lines that repeat, with more lines that repeat, and with even more lines that repeat. When targeting specific words, expose students to the same words over and over and over and over and over. Use the Symbolate feature of Boardmaker to place pictures over each word to adapted stories or books with repetitive lines.  

"In an effort to assist teachers with fostering emerging literacy and math skills in young children, the T/TAC at VCU has purchased and augmented new early childhood learning kits. The kits are theme-based and contain materials that can be integrated within classroom centers to promote literacy and math skills. Assistive technology devices and adaptive materials have been added to the kits to assist teachers in helping all students access the materials."

Episode #92 features a number of easy-t0-implement strategies to help students learn to be better spellers and to correct spelling errors.

Chris Bugaj gives an Ignite Presentation at the VSTE 2012 Annual Conference about a strategy to help people understand and promote universal design for learning

recommendations and reviews Apps are arranged by challenge area and difficulty level. For each challenge area, we've included an informational overview with a list of typical challenges that kids face, help for choosing apps that match kids' needs, and further resources. You'll also find Power Tips with ideas for other activities you can do. You can download a guide which contains a list of nearly 100 apps that have been rigorously evaluated and carefully selected by a panel of expert educators, and thoroughly tested by parents and kids. The apps that made the list have been determined to be great media that can boost or supplement learning in both core academic subjects like reading and math, as well as social interaction, communication, motor skills, and organization.

"A series of resources designed to help patients with learning difficultiesunderstand the procedures, sequence of events and people associated with avisit to hospital."

Microsoft Word 2007 offers new and improved features in an exciting new interface for easily creating citations and a bibliography

Enjoy a new story each week. Action-packed adventures make listening fun and help youngsters learn to concentrate, improve memory and laying the foundations for lifelong literacy skills.

Hereward College is a general FE College in Coventry providing both day and residential places. We welcome all students including those with diverse and complex support requirements. In addition to residential students, day disabled and non disabled students also attend the College. We promote an all-inclusive, broad and balanced curriculum, which provides all students with relevant and challenging learning opportunities. We are actively encouraging learners with disabilities and able-bodied students to work together in order to help personal development, improve social skills, build self-confidence, develop teamwork and support independence for both the disabled and non-disabled students.Feedback from students has shown us that they like the inclusiveness of the College population. Whatever your interests and needs, you can pick and mix from a wide range of courses and services to enable you to develop your skills and confidence and follow your dreams, regardless of any disability, impairment or learning difficulty. We are based in Coventry with all the exciting venues and opportunities that a city has to offer and close to excellent transport networks (55 minutes from London by train).

Use these free, pre-made comics to help students understand emotions.

Below is a list of Adapted Literature available through the Sherlock Center Resource Library. These resources are provided for teachers to help students with severe disabilities participate in the general curriculum. available in PDF and PPT format. Over 250 titles! Stone Soup to Pride and Prejudice! http://bit.ly/sherlockadaptedbooks

The goal of SciGirls is to encourage girls to find a passion of science, technology, engineering and math - or STEM. Each 30-minute episode highlights scientific and engineering processes following a different set of middle school girls who design their own inquiry-based investigations with the help of scientist mentors. The mentors offer the students a glimpse of exciting STEM career possibilities. SciGirls educational materials provide gender-equitable teaching strategies and hands-on inquiries based on the concepts modeled in SciGirls' videos.

Contact your respective LCPS AT Trainer for support in helping students within special education meet their respective IEP goals across the content areas. It all starts with collaboration!

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.

"You can use Snipping Tool to capture a screen shot, or snip, of any object on your screen, and then annotate, save, or share the image."