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"The Peer Collaboration program is designed to assist students who have needs within their classroom environment. The program pairs a peer with a student who is struggling with a particular course, has trouble staying focused, has difficulty building relationships with classmates, or any other obstacle a student may face on a daily basis. Placing peers into classrooms with students who are struggling allows collaborating peers to build their empathy and leadership skills. Additionally, having more leaders in the classroom allows the teacher to focus on all students, balancing his or her time with each student. Peers learn to collaborate with their fellow students as well as with the classroom teacher. Classroom students learn to collaborate with their peers and gain a new understanding of the material, learn to build friendships, and overcome obstacles, eventually leading them to success."

The UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relationship Skills (PEERS) is a manualized, social skills training intervention for adolescents and young adults. It has a strong evidence-base for use with teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, but is also appropriate for teens and young adults with ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other socioemotional problems.

Training classmates produces greater gains in social competence

Juniper Garden Children's Project Peer Tutoring

"Saltillo has teamed up with News-2-You to bring weekly pages for ChatPC and ALT-Chat devices.  The weekly newspapers from News-2-You improve communication through fun and educational activities for individuals of all ages and abilities.  Subscribers of News-2-You will find that the individual can participate in all of these activities using these pre-made pages on a Saltillo communication device, as well as participate in conversations with peers and family on the latest topics."

ORC enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resource

Supplementary Aids and Services (SaS) create a system of support that enables many students with disabilities to learn and participate alongside typical peers, regardless of their unique instructional needs and differences. Consistent with the least restrictive environment (LRE) principle of IDEA, IEP teams must thoughtfully consider a full array of Supplementary Aids and Services that make it possible for students with disabilities to be included in general education classrooms, non-academic, and extracurricular activities. The SaS Consideration Toolkit, developed for use within schools

"Some groups of children are potentially more vulnerable and more at risk than others when using ICT. These can include children with emotional or behavioural difficulties, learning difficulties, and other complex needs, as well as those whose English is an additional language, and looked after children. Of course children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) can use the internet in educational, creative, empowering and fun ways, just like their peers. However, they may be particularly vulnerable to e-safety risks. For example: * Children and young people with Autistim Spectrum Disorder may make literal interpretations of content, which will affect how they respond. * Some children may not understand much of the terminology due to language delays or disorders. * Some children with complex needs do not understand the concept of friendship, and therefore trust everyone implicitly. They do not know how to make judgments about what is safe information to share. This leads to confusion about why you should not trust others on the internet. * There is also growing concern around cyberbullying. We need to remember that some children with SEN or disabilities may be vulnerable to being bullied through the internet, or not recognise that they are being bullied. * In addition, some children may not appreciate how their own online behaviour may be seen by someone else as bullying. We have also included number of resources that those working with children with Special Education Needs might find useful."

"Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits (ATOB) ATIA, in partnership with the Special Education Assistive Technology (SEAT) Center at Illinois State University, produces ATOB to promote the outcomes and benefits of assistive technology for persons with disabilities across the lifespan. ATOB is a peer-reviewed annual publication. The journal is free for download and available in multiple accessible formats."

"What is Web 2.0? In this introductory session, you will read three articles that describe how the Web is becoming a participatory environment for people of all technical capabilities. New online tools allow users to find and interact with peers that share similar interests, and entire learning communities have been built online. These readings will share the implications these technologies can have for teaching and learning. You will explore the blogs of some education leaders who are thinking about learning and teaching in a Web 2.0 world and will share your thoughts about Web 2.0 in the discussion board. At the conclusion of this session you will preview the final project for this workshop. "

"We began with a parent's vision of an inclusive community for families with and without disabilities. The hope was to use technology, particularly computers, to include individuals with special needs and their typically developing peers into one classroom environment. In 2001 a fully inclusive Hope Technology School was established. Now in our tenth year, serving over 120 students, Hope Technology School has become a preschool-through-eighth-grade program including an onsite, NPA-certified Therapy Department, Vocational Education Program, and Assistive Technology (AT) Lab in Palo Alto, California. Our school includes students who are typically developing as well as students with special needs such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down syndrome, dyslexia, and other learning differences. "

"Transcense is the first mobile app that makes group conversations between deaf & hard-of-hearing people and their hearing peers, finally possible  & effortless."

online collaborative whiteboard Stoodle makes it easy to learn from and teach fellow peers online. For iPad (in landscape mode) and desktop browsers!