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This website is focused on supplies, I thought this would be a good ending place for my toolkit, what do I need to have in my classroom? This website has technology, books, printouts, seats, any type of adaptation you can think of. I like this website too because I can look through it and find things that I never knew I might need! It has student specific, as well as academic specific supplies that I can stock my room with so that no student goes without!

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Find useful teaching tools and classroom supplies for students with special needs when you browse through this collection at Really Good Stuff®. Our online special needs catalog includes a range of items that can help kids feel more comfortable and supported at school. From useful educational activities to furniture accessories, these products cover a variety of student needs to make sure every child can learn and grow in your classroom. Shop through our collection to discover dozens of inclusive resources for teachers at a variety of grade levels.

Solutions for Students

Every classroom should be a fun, educational and adaptable environment for students of all abilities. With these special ed resources and materials, teachers are better able to customize their lesson plans and activities to suit every kid in class. You can find items to assist with learning differences, including instructional aids that are designed to provide extra guidance through certain subjects. For kids with sensory sensitivities, we offer items to create a quieter atmosphere with fewer distractions. Our collection includes plenty of products that provide a non-intrusive way for kids with anxious energy to relieve stress while working or listening. You can tackle a number of teaching challenges with the help of these special needs student resources.

Each of these items can help your students to get the most out of every day spent in school. By offering helping products to assist with special needs, you can make sure each student feels appreciated and encouraged. In addition, inclusive classroom resources like these are vital for creating a better learning environment for the entire class. When kids of different needs and ability levels can work together, it provides benefits for every student you teach. Shop at Really Good Stuff® today to find the best selection of special needs supplies for classrooms.

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Find useful teaching tools and classroom supplies for students with special needs when you browse through this collection at Really Good Stuff®. Our online special needs catalog includes a range of items that can help kids feel more comfortable and supported at school.

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This website is a website focused on learning disabilities and learning disorders. It provides information and resources to teachers and families on what LD is and how to support all learning disabilities. This is useful in my classroom and all IEP meetings to advocate and inform people. I will use this when discussing LD with other teachers, I can provide this link to families, and I can use this myself. This resource is one that can be added to a toolkit that is also designed around staying informed and updated.

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Whether you're a general or special education teacher, principal, specialist, or paraprofessional, you play a vitally important role in helping children with learning disabilities achieve their full potential. LD OnLine has gathered the following resources to assist you in your important job!

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LD OnLine is the leading website on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.

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Do2Learn is a resource for my students, it is amazing and has so many different options for them on it. I can use this in my classroom with students who have computers and iPads, I can direct them to this and they can use it in almost any aspect of school. It also has resources that I can use a teacher, such as handouts and other things.

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Do2Learn began in 1996 through a National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovative Research grant. Our team searches out the most talented and creative teachers and clinicians across the world. These gifted individuals work with our technical experts to transfer their knowledge into formats that we can make available to you.
Since beginning, we have grown into a world-wide resource with over 11 million hits a month. While based in North Carolina, approximately half of our users are from outside of the U.S. Thousands of sites link to us and we can be easily found on most search engines using topics such as 'picture cards', 'facial expressions', and 'job tips'. We hope you find our resources helpful and pass on our link to others.
We believe that simply telling busy teachers, parents, and professionals what they should be doing is not enough. If we explain how to devise a visual communication system using picture cards, we provide free cards to get you started.

When we present the Teacher Toolbox on how to adapt a classroom for children with special needs, we provide resources for behavior management plans, literacy tools, and the materials to create everything in your classroom.

Our approach is to use the latest technology and expert guidance to create innovative and usable solutions.

Learn about DiagnoseFirst, our newest project to help teachers and clinicians recognize the symptoms of ASD.

Pre-employment screening assessments are online or paper tests that some companies require applicants to complete during the application process. Read more about JobTIPS Student Version!

JobTIPS Toolbox PRO is filled with resources to help you coach your students through the challenges of assessing their skills, finding and applying for jobs, and practicing the social skills needed to do well in the workplace.

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Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs

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picture communication cards, songs, games and learning activities for autism, aspergers, fetal alcohol syndrome and disabilities

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This is state by state, for times when I might move states or when students move states. It also is helpful to look other other states when I have a new student from somewhere else. It is always important to know what their services looked like elsewhere.

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Education Commission of the States tracks state education policy on a wide variety of education topics. There are three options available:

VIEW enacted and vetoed bills on a wide variety of education topics for the 2019 through 2023 legislative sessions.

EXPLORE our 2023 State Education Policy Watch List, which includes pending legislation in select issue areas.

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50-STATECOMPARISONS Work-Based Learning K-12 School Construction Funding State K-3 Policies High School Graduation Requirements Secondary Career and

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National Association for Special Education Teachers

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National Association for Special Education Teachers

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This is specific to me as a special educator, this resource will provide me with support as a teacher and that is needed. So often we find resources we can give other teachers or parents and students but forget to find support for ourselves. This is one that is an association for SPED teachers and can guide me and provide me with all types of supports in my first years teaching.

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Take a moment to review the various e-Publications, professional development and special education resources.

NASET is proud to offer its' members free access to one of the most extensive and comprehensive sources of Professional Development courses available today. With over 100 courses ranging from 1 to 3 hours each, NASET provides it's members the opportunity for over 100 hours of professional development included with your membership in NASET.

Professional Development Courses (101 courses) - Free with Membership!

Board Certification in Special Education establishes a much needed standard for professionals, across disciplines, who work with exceptional children.

NASET provides the multiple areas with valuable information about IEPs. From a ePublication IEP Components to mutlple articles resources, forms, NASET has a wealth of information for the special education professional.

The online Special Educator e-Journal is published monthly throughout the year and provides timely information on what's current in special education.

This list is provided to all members of NASET to help facilitate the numerous tasks required on a daily basis. All documents are available to view online or download as a PDF file for offline printing.

NASET's Week in Review is a weekly emailed publication that provides members with some of the most interesting stories, topics and issues reported during the week in the field of special education.

NASET News Alerts provide the latest special education news as it happens. News Alerts are emailed, posted and through RSS feeds.

This series provides NASET members with an in-depth look at the step-by-step process of assessing students for eligibility and educational placement in special education.

This series is devoted to lesser known disorders that you may encounter in special education. While not as prevalent as other disorders experienced by most special education teachers, you should be aware of these disorders in order to become more knowledgeable, and increase your ability to assist patents of children with these disorders if they should appear in your classroom or school. Each month we will present a list of 3 disorders that appear in the special education population. Some of these disorders may contain subtypes which will also be presented.

The NASET LD Report is an education resource that provides NASET members with a comprehensive overview of learning disabilities. The NASET LD Report covers many areas of study in the field of LD.

The Practical Teacher is a monthly education resource that provides NASET members with practical tools, strategies, and relevant information that they can use both in and outside of the classroom.

Parent Teacher Conference Handouts can be given at the end of parent teacher conferences to reinforce concepts and help parents better understand information discussed at the conference. New additions are added monthly.

The NASET RTI Roundtable is an educational resource that provides members with the latest information on RTI.

The NASET Autism Spectrum Disorder Series is an education resource that focused on the research, writing, and practical information that we have obtained on causes, characteristics, eligibility, assessment, and teaching strategies.

NASET's Behavior Management Series is a unique guide for all teachers in helping to understand what their student's behavior really means and how to identify and resolve the issue. This series offers teachers the insight into the inner dynamics, conflicts, fears, symptoms, tension, and so on of students who may be experiencing difficulty learning or behaving in the classroom.

The Classroom Management Series provide teachers with practical guidelines covering a variety of topics and supportive information which may help improve their classroom.

A Journal of Research Based Articles in Special Education are provided courtesy of The Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals (). Each issue contains articles that are derived from multiple authors and are based upon the latest research in our profession.

This series is devoted exclusively to students with severe disabilities. This series will cover all aspects of students with severe disabilities focusing especially on understanding this population and what skills and information are necessary if you are asked to teach this population of students.

At NASET, we get many questions from our members about certain areas of interest. The NASET Q & A Corner provides all members with the opportunities to have access to these questions, and more importantly, answers to them from professionals in the field.

This series is intended to provide teachers, related service personnel, administrators, and other individuals charged with assisting in the development of the paraprofessional workforce with information and strategies to build strong, effective, supportive teams to ensure successful educational services for all students.

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National Association of Special Education Teachers: Teachers Teaching Exceptional Children

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Special Education Web Site - Teachers Teaching Special Education National Association of Special Education Teachers

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National Center for Learning Disabilities

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National Center for Learning Disabilities

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This is specific to learning disabilities. This is helpful for me as a teacher but it is also a resource that parents can use too. With resources like this, it is important to guide the parents through it and teach them how to use it. There will be times that I feel lost, and resources like this can help guide me to the answer, especially in my first years of teaching, it is impossible to know it all.

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National Center for Learning Disabilities

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The National Center for Learning Disabilities is excited to announce the opening of its 2024 Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Thomas scholars. Both scholarships are for students with specific learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc. However, students with both a learning disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...

The National Center for Learning Disabilities is excited to announce the opening of its 2024...

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National Center for Learning Disabilities

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Working to improve the lives of the 1 in 5 children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues.

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Teacher vision is a resource that provides everything for a teacher. This is going to be super helpful when I feel lost. I can reach out to this resource and find different ways to teach a subject or if I find that I have ran out of ideas I can find new ideas here. It is just a good place to go for a boost, to make lessons better and give ideas when you have none.

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Special Need & Education Resources for Educators - TeacherVision

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Special education curriculum strategies, classroom management, and resources for students with different learning needs. We’ll help you figure out ways to create an inclusive classroom, adapt, and supplement your classroom materials.

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MTSS Livebinder is super important especially since I will be entering into a classroom that MTSS might still be new, and in some cases it might not even be fully implemented yet. In my career it will be super helpful to already have this tool and the knowledge so that I am not having to search for it. It will give me a leg up in the game as well to already be familiar and have been using MTSS guidelines when it comes to a school that is still working towards it.

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If someone emailed you this link, please let them know that (for security reasons) they need to enter an access key in LiveBinders to share a private binder or shelf.

If this is your binder, please log in (top right on this page.)

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This will be used in my day to day teaching when I have to assess and then take the assessment and determine what that means to me and the student. This is benefical to me because interpreting assessments is still not a comfortable task. I will have to work hard at it and make sure that I am reading assessment data correctly.

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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education

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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education

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This article is important because it focuses on teaching culture and language differences in special education. This would be used in my daily practice to make sure that I am including everyone as well as tackling the hard parts of teaching when it comes to students not understanding diversity and it being my job that they see it in a positive manner. It is my job to include everyone and make sure that the differences in my classroom are seen as the good thing that they are.

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This website is the council for exceptional children. This is beneficial to me as teacher because it provides me with training to improve my practice, policy and advocacy information, and it also provides information not only on their standards but standards of a ton of other things. That being said this is also important for me to provide to my students parents because they can access this freely and gain more knowledge on the field of special education.

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The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s performance-based Initial Preparation Standards define what a candidate must know and be able to do to begin teaching. A high-quality preparation program that prepares candidates to meet these standards must provide, at a minimum, the following:

Bachelor's degree

Sufficient opportunities to develop and demonstrate appropriate pedagogical skills including extensive field experiences and clinical practice

Preparation in core academic subject areas

In addition, CEC expects that professional special educators in new positions undergo a systematic and structured discipline-specific period of induction, which is often the responsibility of the state or school district.

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Initial Special Education Preparation Standards

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The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s performance-based Initial Preparation Standards define what a candidate must know and be able to do to begin teaching.

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NC Exceptional Children's Assistance Center

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NC Exceptional Children's Assistance Center

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This website is important because it offers teachers, parents, and anyone else tools in regards to working with exceptional children. This website offers trainings, blogs, and other resources to inform anyone and everyone on important facts and advice. This is important for me as a teacher because it offers trainings and webinars to keep me informed.

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Exceptional Children's Assistance Center (ECAC)

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We help parents navigate the special education system, know their rights, and use their voice. We provide information, support, training and resources to assist families caring for children with special needs from birth to age 26. We also support young adults with disabilities in becoming self-advocates and leaders and the educators and professionals who serve them.

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A Parents Guide to Special Education in NC

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A Parents Guide to Special Education in NC

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This is important to my career in special education because this is a guide for parents. This is different from the parents rights handout because this goes into more detail about how to manage and work with special education as a whole. Parents rights handout discusses just the rights of the parents, whereas this is more than just their rights, this is also all the details they need to know about IEP's and more.

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children. The Guide is especially geared to assist North Carolina parents.

The Guide contains 11 chapters, beginning with the broad concepts of the special education law and the important terms, then moving to specific topics. Readers can access the Guide by clicking the desired chapter on the list below, or by downloading the entire Guide to their own computer. The Frequently Asked Questions are answered orally as well as in the text. See the videos below to hear answers to common questions.
Download the guide Descarga la Guía en Español
Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 9 of the Guide provides answers to frequently asked questions about special education in North Carolina. The questions, which are divided into six groups, are also answered in the videos below. Click the play buttons to watch each grouping in its entirety, or use the links to jump to individual answers.

Eligibility for Special Education

Special Education Services and IEPs

Least Restrictive Environment and Placement Issues

Accommodations, Modifications, Supplementary Aids and Services, and Related Services

IEP Meetings

School Discipline

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A Parents' Guide to Special Education in North Carolina | Duke University School of Law

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The Duke Children's Law Clinic has produced a comprehensive Guide for parents of children with special education needs. The Guide explains the special education law in clear terms so that parents can learn the vocabulary, navigate the special education system, and become an effective advocate for their children.

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This is important to my career in special education because this is the document that is for all my students parents. Parents have rights and it is my job to know their rights and help advocate for them, but also to tell them their rights. Caring about my students means also caring about their future and there comes a time when I will no longer be a teacher in their life, so preparing others around them to advocate for them when I am not there is a priority in my book.

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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Exceptional Children Division website contains resources for parents, teachers, and administrators.

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NC Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities

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NC Policies Governing Services for Children with Disabilities

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This is important to my career in special education because it is the legal documentation of all the policies and procedures regarding children with disabilities. This document contains all the information I need to know when it comes to legal policies in NC. If I were to move, I would have to alter my toolkit and use one from the new state I am in, but for NC this is the backbone to Special Education from a legal aspect.