Sunday, January 29, 2012


WEBLIOGRAPHY

Nanelle Stokes Cook

Anderson University


This site is the National Center for Learning Disabilities (LD.org.)  The information presented on the website recognizes that even though educators may be teaching a group of students with varying ability levels, teaching the individual within the group who is learning disabled, is a challenge for even the most creative teacher.


It is vitally important for teachers to be able to provide accommodations for students with learning disabilities when test dates are rolling around. The collegeboard website provides information on the SSD (Services for Students with Disabilities), which ensures that students with disabilities are provided with appropriate accommodations for all standardized testing. Information on eligibility, the application process, important dates, needed documentation, and contact information is provided. Great site!


This website, provided by Jeff Claus, an education professor at Ithaca College in upstate New York, provides information and resources to improve schools in the United States.  WISE, is the acronym for “Working to Improve Schools in Education.” This site is maintained by Professor Claus and his students who are working toward various degrees in social studies, biology, English, Spanish, math, music, speech and language development, and health and physical education. These students are dedicated to their preparation to work with and to teach today’s youth. The site encompasses a wide range of topics, resources for extended reading, and websites to further reading and provide help for educators seeking to enhance their work in student disabilities, diversity, ethnicities, and multicultural education.


This website is a plethora of updated websites to provide information to strengthen the teaching of students with disabilities. The acronym for this organization is LDA, Learning disabilities Association of America. The site has specified information for parents, educators, professionals, and adults who have interest in the learning disabilities of America’s students.


LD OnLine is a current website on learning disabilities, and learning disorders, and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children can access this website to find up to date techniques and proven strategies on attention deficit disorder, ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, speech and related disorders, and a host of other disorders affecting the educational performance of our youth today.


This kid’s health site is loaded with information on just about any topic that one may be researching. The website is divided into three categories – PARENTS – KIDS – TEENS. Each section has numerous topics which lead the reader to even more topics and information. Body, mind, sexual topics, diet, health issues, recipes, diseases, school interests, are merely a few of the subjects addressed.  This fu/n, interactive website is a user friendly, helpful way to access articles and resources on learning disabilities.


This website offers supplemental materials for students and teachers who work together through disabilities. The site provides listings of disabilities and accommodations, legal issues, free video, classroom and teaching techniques, and updated articles and resource information.


Reading Rockets is a website geared to presenting a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help children learn how to read with or without disabilities. The reading resources accommodate parents, teachers, and educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.


This source is 28 pages in length and is offered through Vanderbilt University. The work is entitled, “Teacher Preparation to Deliver Inclusive Services to Students with Disabilities,” and provides an in-depth focus on how educators can and should educate students with disabilities.


This site hosts strategies for education students with learning disabilities. A wide range of techniques are provided to encourage and enhance the teachers of children with exceptionalities. Also offered are strategies for teaching reading, technology, testing assessments, and teacher presentation of curriculum.


“The Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) is a international professional organization consisting of teachers, psychologists, clinicians, administrators, higher education professionals, parents, and others. The major purposes of DLD are:

·         To promote the education and general welfare of persons with learning disabilities.

·         To provide a forum for discussion of issues facing the field of learning disabilities.

·         To encourage interaction among the many disciplinary groups whose research and service efforts affect persons with learning disabilities.

·         To foster research regarding the varied disabilities subsumed in the term "learning disabilities" and promotes dissemination of research findings.

·         To advocate exemplary professional training practices to insure the highest quality of services in the field of learning disabilities.

·         To promote exemplary diagnostic and teaching practices in a context of tolerance for new and divergent ideas.”


Kids Together is a website with information for children and adults with disabilities. Explanation on the IDEA, Individuals with Disability Education Act, is explored, and links are provided for extra resources and information. Information on inclusion, adopting change within the regular education classroom, networking and community involvement, and web information for agencies and organizations is provided.


Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.


Autism Science Foundation provides the latest information on autism as the foundation seeks to search, solve, and share.


DREAMMS (an acronym for Developmental Research for the Effective Advancement of Memory and Motor Skills), is devoted to the increase of computers, high quality instructional technology, and assistive technologies for children with special needs in schools, homes and the workplace.


This website provides educators and parents with the resources and tools needed to allow smart students with learning disabilities to be successful in their educational endeavors.


Love this website. Just click on the stubby colored pencils, scroll down, and information abound!


Psychology Press offers this site filled with articles designed to promote teacher education for those who have inclusion students in their classrooms. The theory behind the ever changing information is to change paradigms and innovative approaches on a regular basis. The website discusses how teachers can be adequately prepared to work with a diverse population of students.


Wow! Of all the websites I have viewed, perhaps this one is the “Cadillac” of them all when it comes to information and advice on inclusion. Tips on teaching, saving money in the classroom, resources to enhance learning, teaching strategies, and the list goes on. Teacher vision is an awesome website for working with students with disabilities.


An interactive website connecting educators with what works in today’s educational settings - blogs, hot topics, and current resources.




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