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The goal of this website is to provide a one-stop-shop for parents, families and caregivers of children with special needs to: *Learn about and plan your child's educational program *Understand your legal rights and responsibilities *Access local resources including school system contacts and disability services in your community *Access an abundance of resources, including instructional strategies, assistive technology and behavioral supports to help your child succeed. The Virginia Department of Education hopes that you find the information you need, whether you are new to special education or looking for the latest news, research, and resources. Parents and families can make a difference in their child's education.

The goal of this website is to provide a one-stop-shop for parents, families and caregivers of children with special needs to: *Learn about and plan educational programming *Understand legal rights and responsibilities *Access local resources including school system contacts and disability services in the community *Access an abundance of resources, including instructional strategies, assistive technology and behavioral supports to help children succeed.

"The effect of aided language stimulation on vocabulary acquisition in children with little or no functional speech."

"Using Aided AAC Models, Recasts, and Contrastive Targets to Teach Grammatical Morphemes to Children Who Use AAC"

"The impact of aided language stimulation on symbol comprehension and production in children with moderate cognitive disabilities"

"This six session Anger Management program originated from a commitment to helping children (from the ages of 2.5 and up) begin to build a foundation for understanding anger and incorporate strategies to deal with feelings of anger in their every day lives. Although at the present time this program has been used with Early Childhood Educators and children in child care, home providers and parents could also implement the program (or individual strategies from the sessions)."

For Children With Visual Impairment

Knowledge Adventure has been making educational games for kids for over two decades. Working with child experts, developmental psychologists and educators, it produces games loved by parents and children alike. The fun educational games created by Knowled

This website provides guidelines for early intervention to maximize the language and communication development of young children with special needs including infants, toddlers, preschoolers. The website provides: Step-by-step guidelines for early interv This website provides guidelines for early intervention to maximize the language and communication development of young children with special needs including infants, toddlers, preschoolers. The website provides: Step-by-step guidelines for early interven

The Classics for Younger Children books are illustrated.

"This site is for parents and teachers of children with moderate to severe autism. The information on this site describes the objectives of the games found on www.whizkidgames.com a games portal for autistic children. The games are a free resource that aim to help autistic children to develop independent living skills. Please contribute to our forums and help us to develop more games."

These 2 cats teach young children how to write an acrostic poem

"The following units have been developed by Arlington Public Schools teachers to support science instruction through children's literature at the elementary level.  The documents are posted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format so that teachers may use and modify the materials for their own classrooms."

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

"Awesome classroom tools for special education teachers Birdhouse has helped over 10,000 parents around the world understand their children in new ways. Now Special Education teachers are getting involved."

"Here are dozens of free autism social skills teaching resources, most with free pdf downloads.  The resources vary in difficulty and can be used for children between ~ age 6 and ~ age 18.  The resources are organized by color-coded categories below:"

Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.

"File folder games can be a very versatile tool for your traditional or homeschool classroom.  Children of all ages and grades can use folder games to reinforce important facts and key skills while having fun in the process."

"Special World, from Inclusive Technology, is a free online magazine linking 125,000 special education teachers, speech therapists and occupational therapists in 150 countries. Special World readers and contributors work with children who have additional needs or special educational needs including those with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities" free subscription

"Parents need to know that We Give Books is an educational site that not only allows children to read for free, but also supports worldwide charities. It is a Pearson Foundation initiative. Members can pick from a variety of organizations that they want to donate to, and each time they read a book, the site in turn donates a book to that charity."