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This is a great website for resources, especially LD and ADHD. Definitely worth bookmarking and subscribing to their free newsletters.

world's leading website on learning disability and ADHD-excellent articles, teaching strategies and tools for teachers, parents and students. Companion sites are Reading Rockets, Colorin Colorado and Adolescent Literacy.

Resource/strategies for a math disability.

special education, students, teaching, school, resources

Lisa Parisi is an amazing educator with a Master's in Special Education who has been an inclusion teacher for many years. She has done some fantastic things with Voicethread in the MathCast project. Spend some time exploring her blog and you'll get some great ideas for integrating web 2.0 into working with special needs children.

Lisa Parisi's blog post on "The Successful Inclusion Program". Lisa is an outstanding 5th grade teacher who regularly blogs, twitters and hosts ustream.tv sessions to share her tools, tips and strategies. She includes some excellent advice about inclusion programs in this post.

Here's a great toolbox for a variety of strategies for differentiating instruction--assessment, curriculum, teaching strategies and organizers.

Excellent resources for implementing differentiated instruction-quiz to assess your knowledge of differentiation, and many tools for managing diferentiated instruction.

Several great bloggers on this list - SMD Teacher, TLWMSN, Free resources from the Net, EdTech Change, AT Cubed....to name a few!

via http://delicious.com/lcpsat Tools and strategies for MS and HS with learning difficulties from James Madison University

"special education, classroom, special needs, videos, youtube, assistive technology, special education teacher"

An introduction to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for students 5-10 years old is addressed in this module. Designing quality programs for students who have AAC needs involves engineering communication environments, organizing and training team members, and developing appropriate lessons and materials. Strategies for achieving these goals will be presented.

Begin with ME! is a project that provides a rich environment full of resources and support that allows teachers and teacher consultants to work together, share ideas, and learn new ways to help all students, including those with special needs, become better writers. 1. When appropriate technology tools and strategies are integrated into instruction, all students, including those with special needs and those at risk for academic failure will become better writers.\n\n2. Given adequate training and support, teachers can comfortably integrate technology into their writing curriculum.\n\n3. Supporting struggling students in the general education classroom can be effective and easily replicated.

Amazing story of a school that uses technology to include a homebound student in everything going on in the classroom.

This is an incredible video that tells about how one school has found a way to include a long-term homebound student in everything going on in the classroom-instruction, interaction, friendships and much more. Very inspiring and a simple solution using an Activboard, iChat, iSight camera and Mac computer.

This is such a great use of AAC and Ask. com to build questions.Also demonstrates use of intellikeys overlay and use of email.Could even use with twitter to do status updates for family and friends!