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1. Activity Ideas for Students with Severe/Profound/Multiple/Disabilities - Activity Ideas for Students with Severe/Profound/Multiple Disabilities was the cover story in PALAESTRA:Volume 13, Number 4, a quarterly publication and premier resource on adapted physical activity
2. Adapting Instruction - adaptation strategies common in working with special education students.
3. Adapted PE - Developmentally appropriate physical education at its finest. It is adapting, modifying, and/or changing a physical activity so it is as appropriate for the person with a disability as it is for a person without a disability.
4. Collaborative Teaching: Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms - Chapter 6 ; Accomodation Strategies - Online Book
5. Do To Learn - Learn about facial expressions and how to understand them.
6. Educating People With Disabilities - Read about famous people with disabilities and how they overcome their problems.
7. Functional Behavioral Assessment Sheets - PDF or Word format
8. General Education Resources - These resources are useful for all young children but especially those who may have some learning difficulties.
9. Helping Students Develop Their IEPs - guide for parents and teachers who would like to help students with disabilities become involved in developing their own Individualized Education Programs
10. Improving Reading Skills in the Science Classroom - integrate the acquisition of skills with the understanding of content
11. Internet Resources for Children with Special Needs - comprehensive directory of links
12. Lessons with Modifications for Special Needs - modification ideas included with the lessons.
13. Marc Sheehan's Special Education/Exceptionality Page - many links
14. Misunderstood minds - Find out what it is like experiencing difficulties in learning - examples of what a child's mind experiences in various learning activities are presented.
15. National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) - "only national membership organization dedicated solely to meeting the needs of special education teachers and those preparing for the field of special education teaching."
16. Never Too Late: Approaches to Reading Instruction for Secondary Students with Disabilities - Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) and Strategic Instruction Model (SIM).
17. Practical Strategies For The Classroom For Special Education - strategies to assist individual learning styles and provide success to all students with special needs
18. Project Gutenberg - Free ebooks on the Internet
19. SchwabLearning - Guide for helping students with learning difficulties.
20. Section 504, Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Forms and Information - Many forms in Word format and information for teachers and parents.
21. "Slow Learners" in the Regular Classroom: A Handout for Teachers - "Slow learners are students with below average cognitive abilities who are not disabled, but who struggle to cope with the traditional academic demands of the regular classroom. Their slower learning rate typically requires accommodations to insure their success in school"
22. Special Education Dictionary - Dictionary of Terms used with Special Needs.
23. Special Education Information Links - Many topics to choose from
24. Special Education Lesson Plans - from teach-nology
25. Special Ed Resources on the Internet - comprehensive directory of links
26. Special Needs Resources for Teachers - teaching special needs students effectively; information for teaching students with ADHD, Autism, Asperger's, Giftedness, and Handicaps
27. Strategies to Help Kids Who Struggle with Reading - many articles that suggest strategies to help students.
28. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) Alternative Portfolio - Templates in Word, Excel and PDF files
29. Tennessee Special Education State Forms - These forms are in English and Spanish; PDF and Word document formats.
30. Teaching Every Student - adaptable lesson plans; Universal Design for Learning (UDL) toolkit
31. Teachers First Matrix - scroll to the Special Ed section for sites and ideas for K-12
32. Teachers Helping Teachers © Dr. Scott Mandel - Lesson plans for teachers of special education
33. Teaching Ideas for Early Childhood Special Educators - Ideas sorted by Theme
34. Teacher Tools - This internet4classrooms site has many links to help teachers with forms, awards, certificates; all of their classroom needs for free
35. What are my rights? - Lesson plan; helping others understand the needs of children with disabilities.

Reading Assistance

1. HelpRead - a free text reader program. Tutorials - lessons to support the HELP Read™ user to get their personal highest out of using the software.
2. Natural Reader - Text to Speech free software. Download the Free version.
3. PressDisplay - listen to your favorite newspapers where ever and whenever you decide. Registration required but free.
4. ReadPlease - Reads any text you can copy and paste into the reader- all purpose text-to-speech software. Download the 2003 version (it’s free), not the Plus version for which there is a charge. After downloading this application, go back to download two Spanish voices.
5. Screen Reader - Free Download - Click on the link in blue that says free download. from TextHelp
6. Simply Web 2000 - speech friendly, speech enabled accessible web browser with advance features that allow easy navigation of complex pages by blind users
   
7. Speech - YSpeak - only for Macs; a free computer program for speech- and motor-disabled users.
8. WordTalk - works only for PCs - reads text in MS Word applications. Free software to download and configure into your MS Word program.

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