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Nearly every teacher in the regular classroom has a few students that learn differently from the rest of the class. This section is devoted to providing resources to help you understand these students and to help them to achieve their highest potential.

General Resources
This section includes resources that provide information on a variety of learning challenges.

ADD / ADHD
Find out more about this controversial learning challenge and the latest research exploring it's relationship to creativity.

Dyslexia / Reading Problems
This section is devoted to students who have problems reading, and ways to help them catch up and compensate for their deficits.

Speech & Language Disorders
This section provides resources to help you to work with students who have difficulty communicating.


GENERAL RESOURCES

Sections

Narrowing the Gap Academically
Be sure to check out this section on assistive learning technology in the Special Education Community!

Learning Disabilities
This smaller section in the Parents Community is designed to give an over view of learning challenges from a parent's perspective.

Classroom Management
This page in the Preservice Educators Community offers lots of helpful advice about creating positive learning environments in your classroom and getting ahead of discipline issues.



Articles

Chess Clubs Give Kids New Skills -- and New Hope!
One woman's efforts in Reno are having untold impact.

Virtual High Schools: Part 2 New Programs Meet New Needs
Education World writer Mary Daniels Brown looks at several new and distinctive virtual high schools and examines the concerns of some of those programs' critics. Included: A close-up look at six new virtual schools!

Virtual High Schools: Part 1 The Voices of Experience
Online education, particularly at the high school level, is a fast-growing trend in the United States. In "Virtual High Schools: Part 1," Education World examines four well-established virtual high school programs and offers guidelines for educators who are developing new programs.

Books of Character: Eighteen Books for Teaching About Character Across the Grades
Every year, across the country, people celebrate National Character Counts Week during the third week of October. Teachers have a great opportunity to initiate discussion and projects that examine the meaning of character. Today, Education World offers a selection of books that might be used -- in or out of the classroom -- to spark discussion about character. Included: Eighteen titles arranged by age level and a link to a list of more than 200 other titles for teaching about character!

How Can Teachers Help Shy Students?
Shyness expert Lynne Kelly recently talked to Education World about how classroom teachers can better understand and help shy students. Included: Eight tips for helping students overcome shyness.

Information Sharing to Make Colorado Schools Safer
In 1994, an amended federal law opened the door for Colorado to enact a law this year to allow school and criminal justice officials to share information about violent and disruptive students. The new law is intended to help prevent future school violence. Will more states follow Colorado and the other states that have enacted this law?

Playground Pass Creates Recess Success!
If you've done recess duty, you know the playground is not all fun and games! Wouldn't you love a simple, straightforward teaching tool that steers students away from trouble and into recess success? The Playground Pass does just that! Built on sound behavior principles, it's a system that classroom teachers and playground monitors can use together to help kids make positive choices during free play. Included: Links to the reproducible Playground Pass system and other free resources!

Reading Aloud --- Is It Worth It?
Why do teachers read aloud to their students? Are the benefits of reading aloud worth the time? Many teachers believe reading aloud enhances classroom instruction and improves academic achievement --- and recent research supports their belief. Included: Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, talks to Education World about the value of reading aloud!

Multiple Intelligences: It's Not How Smart You Are, It's How You're Smart!
Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory asks educators to take a fresh look at our assumptions about children and learning. Teachers around the world are rethinking lessons and units -- and their entire approaches to teaching -- based on his research. This week, Education World provides resources to help you explore the wealth of information on multiple intelligence theory available on the Web!

Teaching Special Kids: On-Line Resources for Teachers
Whether you teach in a special-education program or in a "regular" classroom, you probably encounter special kids facing special challenges. This week, Education World brings you information about on-line resources that can help you better understand -- and help -- students with special needs.

Language, Literacy and Children with Special Needs: Enabling Teachers to Enable Children
A new book goes a long way toward helping teachers develop strategies that work with special needs children in the regular classroom.


Reviews

Internet Educational Workbook (INEW)
The Internet Educational Workbook is dedicated to improving the math skills of kids in grades K through 6 and may be used at home or in the classroom. (Grades: K-6)

Can Do
Can Do is an "ability-focused Web site dedicated to helping all people develop a 'can-do' attitude and approach to life... no matter what the obstacles."

Brain.com
Brain.com provides information, news, and resources for anyone interested in the health and fitness of the brain.

Schwab Foundation for Learning
Helping to improve the lives of children who learn differently from others is the goal of this site. The non-profit organization offers a wealth of information and resources for parents and educators alike.

Learning Strategies Database
This is a computerized version of learning strategies data compiled by personnel at Muskingum College (Ohio) over a ten-year period. This site has a ton of information.

LD Online
LD (Learning Disabilities) Online is an "interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children".

Related
Links
Lesson Plans about Learning How to Learn
Here's a great set of resources to help children improve their learning, motivation, memory skills.

ESubjects
Special Education Resources & Information for Teachers, Students, and Parents.

Integra
Serving children and adolescents with learning disabilities dedicated to helping children and adolescents who experience social, emotional, and behavioral problems related to their learning disabilities.

Behavioral Characteristics of Learning Disabled Students
A check list is designed to alert the classroom teacher to the possible presence of a learning disability among one or more of his/her students.

Ask Dr. Albert Ellis
Dr. Ellis answers one question a month on the subject of behavior and rational emotive behavior therapy.

BEHAVIORAL & COGNITIVE SCIENCES - Including theory and therapy
A comprehensive list of Web resources from Mental Health Net.

ConductDisorders.com
Support for parents, teachers, families of children with ODD, CD, ADHD/ADD, Tourettes, BPD, Aspergers and other behavior disorders.

Learning Disabilities Fact Sheet
What are Central Auditory Processing Problems in Children? Find out in this informative article.

Learning Disabilities Association
A national, non-profit organization advancing the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature.

LD Online
The interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children. Includes a comprehensive Ask The Expert feature and a special online newsletter.

Twenty-five Practical Tips for Managing Emotion and Learning
An outline discussing various emotional and learning problems with specific suggestions on how to manage them.

Education: Learning Disabilities & Dyslexia
Parent's Soup resources and link for parenting the learning disabled child.

Math is Just a Game
A listing of links related to the special needs and learning disabilities in children.

The Behavior Home Page
Includes links to information and resources to help teachers deal with children who have behavioral disorders.

First Person
This section of LD Online offers personal essays on first-hand experiences with the challenges of learning disabilities. Essays authored by teachers, parents and students offer advice and insight to living with learning disabilities.


ADD / ADHD

 


Articles

Dramatic Rise in ADHD Sparks Controversy
Concerns about the rise in childhood ADHD and its treatment with psychotropic medication go beyond worried parents and questioning educators. Some say ADHD is a myth -- not a brain-based disorder, but a reflection of what's wrong with our society and education. Others worry about the financial relationships between drug companies and academic researchers who study treatments. Today, Education World looks at some controversial issues surrounding ADHD. INCLUDED: Comments from leading researchers and experts!

How Can Teachers Help Students With ADHD?
Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne highlights strategies for teachers to help their students with ADHD be successful in school, from daily routines that provide structure to showing students how to keep daily assignment journals. INCLUDED: 20 tips for teachers from the American Academy of Pediatrics and CHADD.

Is Medication the Best ADHD Treatment?
Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne explores research that has studied various treatments of ADHD, including medication, behavioral intervention, and neurofeedback.

Statistics Confirm Rise in Childhood ADHD and Medication Use
Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the rise in the number of prescriptions written for stimulant medication to treat ADHD -- an increase of 500 percent since 1991, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. INCLUDED: Highlights of research tracking the rise of childhood ADHD and medication use.

ADHD: What Is It?
Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the personal experiences of children with ADHD, describes the disorders symptoms, and explains the three types of the disorder. Included: Recommended guidelines for diagnosing ADHD.

ADHD: Misunderstood, Misinterpreted and Misdiagnosed
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, affects almost two million children, has existed for generations, and is grossly misdiagnosed, but until this November we were no closer to being able to objectively diagnose those who really have it than we were a half century ago. Included: Strategies for teaching students with ADHD, and resources for additional information.


Reviews

Born to Explore: The Other Side of ADD
This site offers an alternative perspective on ADD and ADHD with some good information on creativity, assessment, and other factors not usually taken into consideration.

A Compact for Reading & School-Home Links
A Compact for Reading is "a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children." (Grades: K-3)

Schwab Foundation for Learning
Helping to improve the lives of children who learn differently from others is the goal of this site. The non-profit organization offers a wealth of information and resources for parents and educators alike.

ADHD / Special Needs Resources: Kids Who Thrive "Outside the Box!"
Every teacher who has ever had, or ever will have, a child with ADD or ADHD in their class should check out this insightful resource full of articles, discussion lists, links, and good advice.

LD Online
LD (Learning Disabilities) Online is an "interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children".

Related
Links

Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Child With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AC0002)
New recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for the assessment of school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Released May 1, 2000. An overview is available in this press release.

ConductDisorders.com
Support for parents, teachers, families of children with ODD, CD, ADHD/ADD, Tourettes, BPD, Aspergers and other behavior disorders.

ADD/ADHD
A guide from LD online.

The Behavior Home Page
Includes links to information and resources to help teachers deal with children who have behavioral disorders.

Preschoolers and Drugs: How Young is Too Young for Ritalin?
This article from the Family Education Network looks at the growing trend of prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to very young children.


DYSLEXIA RESOURCES

 


Articles

Research Shows Brains of Dyslexics Change as Reading Improves
Is dyslexia brain-based or behavioral? Researchers at the University of Washington are closing in on the answer. Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne writes about new dyslexia research. As dyslexic children improve their reading through an effective phonics program, their brain functioning also changes.

Thirteen Strategies to Improve Reading Performance
How have some Chicago schools improved student reading performance? Leadership is essential --- leadership and 13 practical strategies to nurture concrete, measurable gains in reading! This week, Education World tells what principals and teachers do in some of Chicago's most successful schools and how they do it! Included: How to get a copy of the "Leave No Child Behind" study that documents the 13 keys to success!

Language, Literacy and Children with Special Needs: Enabling Teachers to Enable Children
A new book goes a long way toward helping teachers develop strategies that work with special needs children in the regular classroom.


Reviews
A Compact for Reading & School-Home Links
A Compact for Reading is "a written agreement among families, teachers, principals, and students to work together to help improve the reading skills of kindergarten through third grade children." (Grades: K-3)

Schwab Foundation for Learning
Helping to improve the lives of children who learn differently from others is the goal of this site. The non-profit organization offers a wealth of information and resources for parents and educators alike.

LD Online
LD (Learning Disabilities) Online is an "interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children".

Related
Links

Dyslexia: The Gift
Join this group as they explore the positive talents that give rise to dyslexia, and share their knowledge about the best ways for people with dyslexia to learn.

About Dyslexia
Valuable information on the complex disorder, Dyslexia.

Reading
Dyslexia resources from LD Online.

Education: Learning Disabilities & Dyslexia
Parent's Soup resources and link for parenting children with learning disabilities.


SPEECH & LANGUAGE DISORDERS

 


Articles

Language, Literacy and Children with Special Needs: Enabling Teachers to Enable Children
A new book goes a long way toward helping teachers develop strategies that work with special needs children in the regular classroom.


Reviews

LD Online
LD (Learning Disabilities) Online is an "interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and children".

Related
Links

Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder Web Page
A great list of articles available on the web.

Speech and Language Milestones Chart This very basic list of by when to expect various skills to be mastered is provided by Kidsource.

Speech and Language Disorders Judith Kuster's large list of sites related to the many types of speech and language disorders.

KidsEars
This Pfizer Pharmaceutical's hearing and language development site has a comprehensive list of language milestones.

Kidsource Online: Spoken Language Problems
A basic explanation of oral language difficulties

National Aphasia Association A nonprofit organization that promotes public education, research, rehabilitation and support services to assist people with aphasia and their families.

Apraxia Kids
Information on apraxia of speech (motor speech disorder) and how it affects families and children with the disorder