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The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.

"A comprehensive suite of supports for struggling students; including reading, writing, study skills, and test taking." comprehensive supports for their communication initiative.

There is a rapidly growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effects of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention on the communication of children and adults with complex communication needs. Despite the positive impact of many AAC interventions, however, many individuals with complex communication needs continue to experience serious challenges participating in educational, vocational, healthcare, and community environments. In this paper, we apply the framework proposed by the International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to illustrate the need to re-think AAC intervention to improve outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs, and to foster a new generation of intervention research that will provide a solid foundation for improved services. Specifi cally, the paper emphasizes the need to take a more holistic view of communication intervention and highlights the following key principles to guide AAC intervention and research: (a) build on the individual ' s strengths and focus on the integration of skills to maximize communication, (b) focus on the individual ' s participation in real-world contexts, (c) address psychosocial factors as well as skills, and (d) attend to extrinsic environmental factors as well as intrinsic factors related to the individual who requires AAC.

Your Special Chef" is a collection of resources to help teach cooking skills to individuals with special needs. Click around the site to find cue-card recipes, lesson plans for life skills teachers, video tips, and more!

Neat games that could be used to teach mouse skills

JISC Techdis Toolbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help students customise the way they view and interact with web pages to help their study skills.

Math games, videos, word problems, worksheets, flashcards and quizzes Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Play a math game, solve a logic puzzle, and have some fun!

Great website for 1-6 grades working on math skills. Lots of different games to target grade level skills!

Apps, concept mapping, creating a PLN, information literacy, intellectual property, ipads, literacy, parent guides, QR codes, tech skills for teachers, and much more!

Page fluffers are helpful in fostering independent literacy skills. Page fluffers are simple adaptations made to books or other reading material that make pages more accessible to turn. Page fluffers increase the space between the pages of a book, allowing those with limited fine motor skills to get their fingers between each page therefore making it easier to turn a page. You can use a variety of different materials to make page fluffers. A fluffer can be glued, taped, or clipped to the corner of each page.

Interactive games to practice skills with decimals

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) launched the first "Read Captions Across America" campaign in 2006 as a part of the National Education Association's (NEA) annual "Read Across America" initiative. This event is the nation's largest reading celebration, focusing our attention on motivating children to read in addition to their mastering basic skills. Bill Stark explains what captions are, how they act as an instant reading incentive, and what reading benefits can occur from the use of captioning. The DCMP's support to teachers, librarians, and others in making the activity a success is also overviewed.

Teachers, when you are watching a video at school...turn the captions on to increase reading abilities. Parents, when watching TV at home with your kids, turn the captions on to increase reading skills.

Step-by-Step communicators can have a whole string of messages recorded onto them. The messages are spoken in the sequence they are recorded by pressing the switch. The device has 75 seconds of recording time.

Fun animated activites to increase and practice mouse skills!

Visit our Youtube page to watch video tips about teaching children with special needs cooking skills from an occupational therapist, chef, and teachers. ARTICLES: Adaptive Cooking Tools Resources Glossary Why Teach Cooking Skills? Disability Awareness Classroom Assignment Suggested Meal Plans

Great source of information for social skills, behavior, picture cards and academic areas at varying age/skill levels.

Games for Pre-K through Middle School! Need to practice a skill? Do so through games! Make Math FUN!

Help your students become better searchers Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.