Web Reviews by Bryn Milne

#1 Educational Games

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Website

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This site would be student and teacher related.

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Summary: This website offers games that are specific to children and adults with special needs. The games can help aid in development, communication skills, boost self confidence and foster indolence skills just to name a few. There are descriptions of each game along with which age groups they would benefit best. You can purchase and order the games from this website.

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Schools can get discounts on the games based on the amount that is purchased and there are grade level packages that can be purchased.

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The website provides videos of how each game is played so a visual aid is available when explaining how to play the game.

#2 National Association of Special Education Teachers

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Summary: This website helps give guidance to special education teachers and those preparing to be a special education teacher. They offer the ability to create a membership to use resources, follow programs, read publications that will aid the special education teacher in their career. This website aims to help special education teachers be more successful with numerous amounts of helpful assets.

This website would be teacher related.

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Special education teachers and those pursuing a special education degree can make a membership for this website with a yearly fee of $59 ($50 for students). Once a membership is created, all resources will be accessible including PowerPoints, lesson plans, and behavior management programs just to name a few.

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This website includes a career center that helps to find jobs in special education, gives career advice, and allows employers to post jobs on the website.

#3 Autism

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Summary: This website is a resource that provides information on autism and how to support and accept it as well as connects users to different resources to aide in the advocation of autism. It gives users an easy way to learn about autism, empowers individuals with autism, and helps families plan and decide the best paths to take with their autistic family member.

This website is disability related.

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The Autism Society website allows users to fill out a form to get direct support and provides a number to call if in urgent need. It also gives users an outline of how autism can be diagnosed, what the screening is like, and what signs to look for in individuals who may have autism.

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The website gives direction on how to give back and connect with the autism community and provides links to donate funds to the Autism Society.

#4 Higher Education

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Website

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This website would be student related.

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Summary: Think College is a website that gives students with special needs the resources, guidance, training, and assistance in getting into college and choosing the right fit. It manages a list of college programs designed for students with learning disabilities and helps connects students to find the correct fit. Think College also works to help improve higher education options for students with special needs.

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The website provides resources for students and families such as how to find the right college near you, what colleges align with the major of interest, how to get financial aid and scholarships, as well as college coaching and mentoring once a college is chosen.

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Think College provides helpful information for younger students about college as well. They've created a program called Future Quest Island Exploration that is an online program for students in grades 3-5. It provides college and career awareness through a gaming system where students get to learn what college could be like and motivates students to get there. This is a program that is part of the Think College website.

#5 Families of Special Education

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Website

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This is student and family related.

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Summary: Parent to Parent USA provides support to families of individuals with learning disabilities or special health needs. It helps connect these families all throughout the US and gives support, training, and tools and resources to them. Through this website, all but nine states have a Parent to Parent Organizations registered and that families can connect with in order to get one on one support and guidance.

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The website allows people of the right criteria to become members of a Parent to Parent program. A member of this program is the one who gives emotional support and guidance to a parent of their assigned state. There are membership options to join such as member, partner, friend, or champion.

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Families can access news and upcoming events of Parent to Parent USA as well as helpful articles, links, and videos created by the organization.

#1 ADHD

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Website

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This website would be disability related.

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Summary: This website is dedicated to providing families, teachers, and/or students with information about ADHD. There are links to articles and videos about the conditions as well as numerous informative pages to view in order for the user to educate themselves more on the condition.

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On ADDitudemag.org, you can learn the symptoms of ADHD and how to get tested as well as find the best treatments to manage it. The website offers medication reviews, therapy recommendations and, natural remedies for users to look into.

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There are sections of the website dedicated for parents and professionals (teachers) to learn about the condition and how to assist a child or student with it in the best way.

#2 Learning Disabilities

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This website would be teacher and parent related.

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Summary: The National Center for Learning Disabilities is an informative website that educated users on learning disabilities and how to advocate for people that are working through them. The center advocates for students with learning disabilities to be provided the education they deserve and works to help students, parents, and teachers achieve this.

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The website offers multiple resources for users to study. These resources are segmented based on who they would benefit most: parents and caregivers, young adults, educators, and LD Champions.

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Website users can download their state's Specific Learning Disability state snapshot to gain more information on how their state is progressing with students with learning disabilities.

#3 Online games/activities

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Website

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This website would be student and teacher related.

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Summary: Do2Learn is an educational resources for students and teachers to use. The website provides tons of free pages of activities, songs, games, etc. that help students with disabilities regulate behaviors, gain social skills, learn academic material, and even help them prepare for future employment. The website is a great resource because it provides activities that are specially made by professionals for students with disabilities.

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The work pages, games, and songs are broken down into three categories based on what the student needs to work on. The categories are academics, social skills, behavior management, and picture cards (visuals for students to follow instead of reading or listening to certain directions).

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The website also offers handbooks and pages for teachers to follow to help them education students with special needs.

#4 Literacy and Reading for Students with Disabilities

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This website would be teacher related.

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Website

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Summary: Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities is a website that offers instructions, research-based strategies, and information on how to teach students with disabilities how to read, write, and communicate. The information and strategies shared on the web page are based off The Four Blocks Literacy Framework developed by Dr. Patricia Cunnnigham and Dr. Dorothy Hall.

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The website has three tabs that give the teacher access to communication, access to writing, and access to reading. Each of these tabs provide different ways that a teacher can adjust their teaching methods to help students with disabilities understand communicating, writing, or reading better. There are different strategies shown and different techniques that a teacher can follow based on what the student needs.

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There are also tabs for emergent literacy and conventional literacy for teachers to look into based on what they are trying to improve with their students.

#5 Visual Impairment

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Website

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This website would be disability related.

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Summary: The American Printing House is a website that provides people with visual impairments along with educators and family members the tools and information needed to cope as well as succeed with vision loss. It brings awareness to the disability and provides technologies that can help assist people read, communicate, and learn despite being visually impaired.

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The website offers educational resources to assist with every subject being taught in a typical school curriculum. You can purchase different tools and kits based on what needs to be taught that will help students with visual impairments understand the concept without being able to see.

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The website also offers products that can be used around a school or place of work that makes it more accessible for the individuals with visual impairments. You can purchase braille, accessible audio tools, and navigation tools that can make the environment more accessible.

#1 Gifted Children

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Website

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This website would be student or teacher related.

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Summary: This website focuses on uplifting and advocating for talented or gifted students. It helps educate professionals on how to work with gifted children and works to ensure they get the appropriate support and opportunities they deserve. This website is a great tool to learn more about gifted children and how their abilities need to be noticed or recognized in the classroom.

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There is a list of links and resources for schools, programs, camps and enrichment activities for gifted and talented students and teachers to look into. The website also provides a career center for teachers to explore if they are looking for a profession in working with gifted children.

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The latest news on the progress of gifted children advocacy is provided as well as dates and times for events related to gifted children.

#2 IEP/Goal Development

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Website

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This website would be teacher related.

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Summary: This website helps develop IEPs and breaks down the process of creating one. By using this website, teachers can organize important documents and clearly lay out goals and objectives for the student in an easy process. It takes away the stress and unknown of writing an IEP and lay out all the steps that need to be taken.

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Online training is available and schools can purchase a package so all teachers are able to use the website to create their IEPs if needed.

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An SIS bridge is used to link the IEP writer to the district's Student Information System.

#3 Special Education Staffing

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Summary: EPIC Special Education Staffing is a website that helps connection special education teachers or clinicians with appropriate school districts that are in need of educators. They match educators and clinicians up with the schools that fit them best to create a good match in order to increase retention rate, help schools with staffing difficulties, and assist special educations teachers find the perfect job.

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The website can help connect speech language pathologists, physical therapists, school psychologists, special education teachers, occupational therapists, and even school nurses to school districts that are in need.

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This website isn't just for people looking for a job in special education. It is also used for schools to find people that fit their district best when they are in need. The website will assist with setting up interviews and help the school through the hiring process.

This website is teacher and school related.

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#4 Occupational Therapy

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Website

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This website would be teacher or disability related.

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Summary: The OT toolbox provides tools for occupational therapy activities for teachers, parents, and occupational therapists. It provides great activities to target certain areas in OT that a child may need help with. There are tools for executive functioning, fine motor skills, functioning skills, hand writing, sensory, and vision.

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You can purchase some activities or lesson plans like you would on Teacher Pay Teacher. However, these lessons are directed towards fine motor skills and other occupational therapy aspects.

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The website also provides courses for teachers to take that can help them get a better understanding of a certain area in occupational therapy. These courses are free and can really help teachers assist their students with their certain needs.

#5 Dyslexia

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Website

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This website would be disability related.

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Summary: This website provides in depth information about the disability of dyslexia. It is a great resource for parents, teachers, and students to use in order to gain more information about what the disability is, the signs and symptoms of it, how to get tested, and answers most questions that go along with the disability. The website provides a great number of additional resources to use in order to gain more information about dyslexia.

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The website provides information for teachers to learn how to educate students with dyslexia and different programs they can join. There are also materials for teachers to use in the classroom when working with dyslexic students.

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Conference and workshop dates, times, and links are given on the website for teachers and parents to take part in to learn more about dyslexia.

#1 Apraxia

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Website

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This website would be disability related.

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Summary: This website focuses on the speech disorder of Apraxia. It is a place for parents and teachers to learn more about the disorder, and connects them with groups and specialists to help children with the disorder. It also provides helpful resources to help learn more about the disorder as well as provides guidance in developing IEP plans for children with Apraxia.

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The website provides resources to help parents find local speech therapists and gives background information and links for technology developments to help people with Apraxia.

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Through the website, parents can access webinars to learn more about Apraxia, how to raise a child with it, and how to navigate their child's education. Parents also can learn about conferences on the speech disorder as well as join support groups with other parents of children with Apraxia.

#2 Strategies for Working with Exceptional Children

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Website

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This website would be teacher related.

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Summary: The Council for Exceptional Children is a great website that provides teachers guidance on teaching exceptional children as well as how to follow the rules and guidelines of exceptional children education. The website provides numerous amounts of resources for teachers to use and allows them to join groups and connect with other professionals to learn and build off each other. Teachers can learn through blog posts, books, journal articles, and webinars all provided on the website.

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Teachers can use this website to assist in their professional development as the Council for Exceptional Children provides resources for different courses and trainings teachers can take. It also gives clear outlines of the standards the teachers need to follow based on the type of education they are teaching.

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Teachers can learn about topics such as working with families, learning disabilities, instructional planning, cultural diversity, student engagement and much more. The website is full of endless information for educators to use and learn from.

#3 Inclusive Classrooms/Education

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Website

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This website is school and teacher related.

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Summary: The inclusive schools network is an educational resource for teachers, schools, and parents to use that provides resources and information on building inclusive classroom environments for students with disabilities. It shares strategies and methods to help increase opportunities for students with disabilities in the classroom as well as build knowledge on inclusive education.

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The website provides education on inclusive classrooms and equal education by posting through a blog consistently, providing resources such as publish journals and articles, and sells publications on inclusive classrooms with the proceeds going to maintaining the website.

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One main goal of the website is to build connects with schools around the world to promote inclusive education everywhere. The website helps connect schools and during Inclusive Schools Week (first week of December), the website highlights all the accomplishments schools around the world have made in promoting equity in education.

#4 Hearing Disability/Deafness

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Website

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This website would be disability related.

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Summary: Deaf Unity empowers deaf peoples to progress and advocate for the right resources in three pivotal moments of life: Transitioning from school to high education or workplace, entering the workforce, or progressing in the workplace. The website is aimed to help deaf people take control of their lives and live the same way as their peers.

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The website provides links to job applications for deaf people, highlights upcoming events about deaf people in the work place and higher education, and provides articles and interviews on deaf role models who have had great success despite their hearing disability.

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There are resources on the website for people to learn sign language at multiple different levels. It also provides deaf people with resources to find interpreters, note takers, and communication support workers.

#5 Instructional Strategies and Tools

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Website

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This website would be teacher related.

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Summary: SPED Strategies provides educators with tools and strategies to teach and meet the needs of students with disabilities in the classroom so they are prepared for life after school. A team of experts creates content for education professionals to follow when teaching students with disabilities so they are given the education they need and deserve.

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The website provides resources on inclusive education, instructional resources, and special education recovery plans to help bring more equality to education and help gives teachers and idea of ways they can make a classroom inclusive.

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Schools can partner with SPED Strategies and the organization will work with the school partner to improve their inclusive education model. They also will provide interactive learning sessions that are customized the the school's needs when educating students with disabilities.