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Websites 1-5

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This website is disability related but can be used by parents and schools to help children with autism

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This website is school related as it goes over what IEP goals are and which ones are considered effective for students with disabilities

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This website has a list of assistive technology tools that can be used for people on the autism spectrum to help them with communication, learning, social skills, and helping them get through sensory overload. Links are included as well as many examples for different skills

hirtc01 — 2024-01-25 00:52:14 UTC

Assistive technology is split into low, mid and high tech. Low tech tools include communication cards, sensory toys, and planners. Mid tech tools include communication apps, noise cancelling headphones, and videos that model behaviors. High tech tools include robots that are created to help children with autism with their social skills

hirtc01 — 2024-01-25 01:00:14 UTC

Low tech tools are things that don't require electricity, mid tech tools are cheap and easy to use, and high tech tools are digital programs and technology that is used to work on communication skills

hirtc01 — 2024-01-25 16:27:00 UTC

This website is disability related as it focuses specifically for special needs students, but teachers can also use it to find games that are appropriate for their special needs students. Links are included for some of the items needed for the games mentioned

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This website is teacher related as it gives the two main methods that teachers have used to identify students with special needs

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This website is school related as it brings up the different ways that classrooms can be inclusive. This can also be used by teachers as a guide for their own classroom

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This website focuses on cooperative games, games which involve children working together in order to win and some of the best ones for students with disabilities. Unlike competitive games that often force kids to play against each other, these games focus on developing social skills in children with disabilities while also building their confidence

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Some of the games listed are parachute games, large puzzles, and trust games. These games help children with disabilities on communication, cognitive skills, decision making skills, and motor skills

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This website is a guide for teachers on how to identify children with disabilities, giving them the discrepancy model, and the response to intervention model and the positives and negatives of both

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While some kids are more likely to be identified with special needs due to outside factors or medical conditions. For students with things like learning disabilities, it can be harder to identify their special needs

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The discrepancy model involves students receiving special education only if they have normal intelligence and low school performance based on their IQ. This model isn't a good way to identify special needs as diagnosing someone with special needs due to low performance doesn't mean special education will help them

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Response to intervention involves identifying learning difficulties in the first few years of school and then assigning interventions to see if the learning difficulties go away with help. If the child still struggles, they are then given further help

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This website has five ideas that make classrooms inclusive for all children, regardless of ability. Instead of separating special needs and general education students, these inclusion classrooms work to bring both of these groups together as a way to improve social, emotional, and academic needs of all students

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The five signs of inclusive classrooms in the article are groups of desks to help students with their communication and cooperation skills as they interact with their peers on a daily basis, visual aids to help students who learn better using visuals, level appropriate books and hands on activities so all learning styles are taken into consideration

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Teachers encouraging communication between classmates in order to develop social skills and socially acceptable behavior, and assistive technology for students who use it for communication or students who prefer to learn using apps and websites

hirtc01 — 2024-01-25 21:27:20 UTC

This article describes what IEP goals are, which are objectives included in a child's IEP that address their educational needs and how to improve their performance. These goals are developed at the yearly IEP meeting, which has adults close to the child reporting on their progress and updating the IEP and goals as needed

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The development of these goals requires parents and school staff working together, going over the student's strengths and weaknesses, and making these goals obtainable using the SMART method

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Some tips given in the article for effective goal development are using the SMART method, taking the student's interests into consideration, having the student be involved in the process, and frequent goal evaluation

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https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/vision-factsheet.html

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https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/infant-toddler-resource-guide/infanttoddler-care-providers/inclusive-care/relationships-families

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https://alc.ext.unb.ca/modules/physical-disabilities/implications-for-learning.html

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Future website reviews will be on this padlet. They are right below the previous one

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This website is teacher related as it focuses on what teachers should know about visually impaired students and how to help them

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This website is teacher related as it focuses on the benefits of building healthy relationships with parents, as well as ways to strengthen this connection

hirtc01 — 2024-02-07 15:18:52 UTC

This website is disability related as it focuses on the implications physical disabilities can have on education. This website can also be used by teachers to find out the bests accommodations for their students with physical disabilities

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This website is teacher related as it focuses specifically on how teachers can be certified to teach special education

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This website is school related as it focuses on the different types of classroom modifications and accommodations

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This is a guide about the struggles visually impaired students whose vision can't be fixed with glasses, or have partial or full vision loss deal with in school, and a list of what teachers need to do in order to support them in the classroom

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Some of the things visually impaired children struggle with are not being able to see the whiteboard, struggling to read things assigned to them, or bumping into things in their way like desks

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On top of developing an IEP or 504 plan for these students, a teacher can keep them seated at the front of the classroom so they can see the whiteboard, keep the hallway and classroom clear of objects that visually impaired students could bump into, and allow them to use verbal responses for written assignments

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Some examples of accommodations for students with disabilities are for settings and timing. Setting changes include working in a quiet room while taking a test, or a room with special or darker lighting. For timing, children receive more time to work on assignments, tests, and projects, and can take frequent breaks to avoid being overwhelmed

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Some common modifications are for assignments, including giving students different assignments than their peers, or creating alternative tests. The curriculum can also be modified for differentiation purposes, or using different standards to grade students with special needs

hirtc01 — 2024-02-07 16:35:16 UTC

This website has a list of some of the most common accommodations and modifications for school work and the school environment for students with special needs

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This website focuses on what students with physical disabilities might struggle with in the classroom, like not being able to hold a pencil, having poor posture, and struggling with movement. Many of the barriers these students face are caused by inaccessible buildings and classrooms, making it harder for them to navigate around or succeed in their education

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Some common characteristics, or struggles students with physical disabilities deal with are difficulty finishing work in the set time, requiring special transportation, and feeling excluded in group activities

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For these specific issues, teachers can give these students extra time for work and exams, having a flexible class schedule that takes their transportation into consideration, and making sure that these students aren't excluded in group activities by grouping them with their peers

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This website contains the benefits of a healthy parent teacher relationship, ways to jumpstart and manage this relationship, and questions to ask yourself regarding the relationship

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Some of the benefits of having a healthy relationship with parents are that parents often have a unique understanding of their child, as well as having information the teacher might not have. Communicating with them also helps teachers become more responsive to special needs families needs

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Some ways to build this relationship are to warmly welcome families when they enter your classroom, especially special needs families, use drop off and pick up time as a way to discuss the child's day with the parents and check in, and learn more about each families culture and beliefs

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Some things teachers should ask themselves when they form these relationships is how can they make families feel valued, what approaches should they use to form the relationship, and how to communicate with families regarding their child's development

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This website focuses on what the different requirements for getting certified are, the different levels of certification, and certification extensions

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Using the special education certification for grades 1-6, teachers who seek this certification must have a minimum of three years of teaching experience in 1st and 2nd grade, and a minimum of three credits in a college course that involves teaching kids with disabilities. They can also get an extension for prek and kindergarten.

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For people who are getting certified for grades 7-12 and wish to teach other subjects in special education, they can get a subject area extension for their certification. It requires 12 credits in a specific concentration area like English, and additional workshops and seminars before you can be certified

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As of 2022, NYS has switched over to an all grades certification for special education and will fully switch over to this certification by 2030. This means that when you get certified for special education, you will no longer be certified for one specific age range, but instead you'll be certified for all of them

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Websites 11-15

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This website is teacher related as it focuses on ways to recognize learning disabilities in the classroom, and what symptoms a child might display

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This website is school related as it focuses on the accommodations that students with hearing disabilities can receive

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This website is teacher related as it focuses on why gifted students might struggle in their classrooms, and some methods that can be used to help them excel

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This website is teacher related as it focuses on different methods to help ELL students in the classroom

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This website is disability related as it focuses on the signs of an intellectual disability that children might display

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This website has a list of the most common signs of intellectual disabilities, what an intellectual disability is, and what causes them

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An intellectual disability causes "limits to a person’s ability to learn at an expected level and function in daily life". Some of the causes are injury, diseases, brain problems, early birth, or head injury

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Some symptoms that parents and teachers should look out for are sitting/crawling later than normal, talking much later, struggling to remember, not understanding social rules, and struggle with problem solving skills. Parents should take their children to a doctor if they notice these symptoms

hirtc01 — 2024-03-21 17:38:04 UTC

This website focuses on six strategies to help ELL students who are currently in the process of learning English. These strategies can be used by both ELL students and students who already speak English already.

hirtc01 — 2024-03-21 17:54:04 UTC

Since the most important thing to do when working with ELL students is create a safe environment for their learning, languages, and culture, A few of these strategies include emphasizing productive language, differentiating, and teaching in the students native languages if possible

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For productive language, teachers should provide sentence frames for students who are afraid to speak, that give them an idea about what they should be discussing during the lesson, such as a scientific hypothesis. Lessons should also focus on the SWIRL method (speak, write, interact, read, and listen) To differentiate instruction, you should speak English clearly and slowly, and then give a visual for students who still struggle with understanding English.

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To incorporate the students native languages in a lesson, you can introduce a specific topic they will be learning about and then give the students the chance to research using materials written in their home language, and then they receive the lesson in English

hirtc01 — 2024-03-21 18:44:05 UTC

This website focuses on the struggles that gifted students often face in school, especially when their needs aren't being met

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Even though gifted students might do better academically because of their increased academic abilities. They might struggle with skills like planning ahead, studying, and staying organized as these weren't skills that they practiced during their time in school. Time management is another struggle among gifted students, especially if their assignments are too easy. Without these proper skills, it can lead to burnout and suffering school performance

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The website gives a three step solution to help gifted kids in school. Step one focuses on discovering what is causing their academic problems, step two involves teaching them how to organize their assignments and time.

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The third step focuses specifically on experiments. First creating a list of activities that need to be done and a schedule to get them done, then estimate the time it will take to complete each step, and when the project is finished go over what went right and wrong with the experiment

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This website focuses on the different accommodations for students with hearing disabilities, and a short description for each of them

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These accommodations can be used for both k-12 education, but also college education. While one accommodation worked before college, that might not be the case once they get to college or that option might not be available The deaf person should be included in each accommodation meeting, and they should have a say in picking what is comfortable for them

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Some of the accommodations that are available for deaf students are ASL interpreters, speech to text services, captioning for pre recorded videos, and having someone taking notes to capture important information

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This website focuses on the different symptoms students with learning disabilities might face in school, and acts as a guide for teachers on what they should be looking out for

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Teachers are often the first people to notice students struggling with learning disabilities, especially if parent's aren't home often to help with homework, or practice with subjects such as reading. It can be harder to notice for some students as some children might hide their struggles out of embarrassment

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Some of the symptoms listed are not trying in school or trying hard but they keep doing poorly, having poor behavior by keeping quiet and isolated or acting out to pretend they don't care about their struggles with school, strong test anxiety or struggling to get their tests done quickly, and low self esteem regarding their poor performance which can lead to depression and anger

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Websites 16-20

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This website is disability related as it focuses on the ten most common types of speech and language disabilities, as long as their symptoms

hirtc01 — 2024-04-16 00:03:08 UTC

This website is teacher related as it focuses on the different strategies to use on students who struggle to read, including students with dyslexia

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This website is school related as it focuses on the different guidelines and teaching methods in order to help students who have a hearing disability

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This website is disability related as it focuses on the struggles that students with ADHD face in the classroom, but it is also school related as it also focuses on ways schools can help these students learn

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This website is disability related as it mostly focuses on the different types of emotional and behavioral disorders, but it is also teacher related as it also focuses on strategies to use on these students

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This website focuses specifically on the most common speech and language disabilities, their symptoms, and the causes

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Three of the disabilities featured in the article are apraxia of speech, selective muteness, and speech delays (alalia)

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Apraxia is defined as "when the neural pathway between the brain and a person’s speech function (speech muscles) is lost or obscured". It has been shown that two causes of apraxia is caused by brain damage or genetics. Selective mutism is defined as "when a person does not speak in some or most situations, however that person is physically capable of speaking". It mostly effects students who are shy, suffering from anxiety, or experiencing social withdrawl

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Alalia is defined as "when a child is not making normal attempts to verbally communicate", and can either be caused by something less severe, such as being a late bloomer, or it can be caused by brain damage

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This article features eleven different methods for teachers to use to help their struggling readers, especially dyslexic students

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Most of the methods listed follow the Orton-Gillingham approach, which is described as teaching "the connections between letters and sounds" and why the letters make the sounds they do and uses many different senses to link language to words

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Two of the methods listed in the article are "read write type" which is a software program that helps students learn the 40 phonemes (word sounds) by associating each one with a finger stroke on the computer keyboard. It is used as a supplement to the normal reading program. The second method is called "read well" which is for grades K-3. It focuses on word-sound awareness. Teachers start off by modeling to the students on what to do, but they slowly decrease the amount of support.

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This article focuses on different teaching methods that should be used to teach students who suffer from hearing loss, it also includes some problems in the classroom that could affect their ability to learn

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Some of the teaching methods listed were talking slowly and using appropriate volume, not turning your back or blocking your mouth to allow the student to mouth read, provide a lecture outline to help them catch up on the lesson, and pause to make sure the student understands what is being taught

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The biggest problem in classrooms that should be fixed for students with hearing disabilities are poor classroom acoustics (sound), which can be caused by background noise or echos. This can be fixed by closing the classroom door, and keeping the students desks places away from any sources of noise. Using an FM system can also be used in the classroom, with the teacher using a microphone attached to their body while the student listens through a receiver

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This article goes over the struggles that students with ADHD face in the classroom, as well as ways to work with them to keep them on track. While this article was written during the pandemic, I feel like many of these issues are still important as many students still attend school online

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Students with ADHD might struggle with putting mental effort into learning, so forcing a student to learn online or in a classroom with many rules can take away the excitement from learning. They are also more likely to struggle with social relationships, so if they don't have many opportunities to socialize, it can affect their happiness in school. Transitions are also difficult for these students, and they usually need extra time to get used to a brand new setting, such as a new classroom

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Some things that teachers and parents can do to help students with ADHD are to create enough structure so the child can become familiar with new routines, making sure the child stays engaged, and keeping the child connected with peers throughout the day

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This article goes over the different types of emotional/behavioral disorders teachers might come across in the classroom, while also giving strategies to help support these students needs

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The most common types of emotional disorders are anxiety, bipolar disorder, OCD, and psychotic disorders. There are also two types of behavioral disorders, ODD and conduct disorder. ODD is defined by extreme non compliance, negativity, and unwillingness to cooperate, but these students aren't violent. Conduct disorders are defined by aggression, and violence inflicted against others or themselves

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The most important thing to do in the classroom at the beginning of the year is to set up rules and a specific classroom routine, as well as setting up consequences for those who break them. They also help with classroom management, and making students with emotional/behavioral disorders feel more comfortable with transitions

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Two other additional strategies that can be used in the classroom to help these students are a lottery system and positive peer reviews. The lottery system is where students are given tickets for good behavior and drawn out once a week, and the winner gets a prize. The peer review system involves students watching their peers, and identifying positive behavior. Both the student doing said behavior and the one who identifies it are rewarded

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