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Parent Education Network (PEN) is a statewide coalition in Pennsylvania of parents of children representing a range of disabilities and ages. PEN believes strongly that knowledgeable, skillful parents impact effectively on early intervention, special education, and adult services for their child with disabilities. PEN's Parent Training Projects promote mutual respect between parents and professionals for the knowledge, skills, and abilities each contributes to develop appropriate educational and service delivery outcomes for the child and adult...
http://www.parentednet.org/
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The National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc. (NCLD) offers this $10,000 scholarship annually to one high school senior with an identified learning disability (LD) who plans on pursuing an undergraduate degree. Check the website for applicant qualifications and deadlines. Some qualifications include financial need and a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
http://www.ld.org/awards/afscholarinfo.cfm
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This website by the LDAA includes information and resources on many learning disabilities, including learning disabilities involoving a significant social component, such as autism and Asperger syndrome. LDA is dedicated to a world in which * All individuals with learning disabilities are empowered to thrive and participate fully in society; * The incidence of learning disabilities is reduced; and * Learning disabilities are universally understood and effectively addressed. Members receive the national newsletter, Newsbriefs, six tim...
http://www.ldanatl.org
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The mission of the National Coalition on Auditory Processing Disorders, Inc. is to assist families and individuals affected by auditory processing disorders through education, support, and public awareness as well as promoting auditory access of information for those affected by auditory processing disorders.
http://www.ncapd.org/
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The directory provides free referral for a liscenced eye doctor who provides vision therapy. This directory also offers advice for people who have questions about ADHD/ADD and how it relates to vision problems.
http://www.visiontherapydirectory.com/
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This organization provides information about disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA, the nation's special education law; and research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities with a special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
http://www.nichcy.org/index.html
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Advanced Brain Technologies (ABT) is the creator of innovative brain-based products and technologies for therapeutic, educational and self-improvement benefits. It combines extensive clinical experience with the latest neuroscience and music research to create products, programs, and services that enhance health, learning and productivity. Based on more than 30 years of clinical research with thousands of individuals at the National Academy for Child Development and with experts in various fields, ABT's growing family of brain-based programs is...
http://www.advancedbrain.com
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Dictation software suitable for children. Allows you to "train" the computer to recognize your voice. You can begin using it with just an hour or so of training.
http://www.dragonsystems.com/naturallyspeaking/home/
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This software can be used by both children and adults and can assist the therapist in habilitation and rehabilitation of a wide variety of speech, communication, and cognitive impairments. Here are some examples: Autism and Related Disorders; Asperger's and PDD; Attention Deficit Disorder-ADD; ADHD; Learning Disabilities; Language Delay; Spelling, Reading, Phonics, Phonology; Language Disorders and Delays; Aphasia, Apraxia, Dysarthria, Anomia; Hard of Hearing, etc.
http://www.learningfundamentals.com/
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Lindamood-Bell is an organization dedicated to enhancing human learning. They were founded by the authors of critically acclaimed programs that develop the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading, spelling, language comprehension, math, and visual motor skills. Their process-based education programs are for individuals ranging from severely learning disabled to academically gifted–ages 5 years through adult. They are the originators and innovators of Lindamood-Bell® clinical services, professional development workshops, and a school ...
http://www.lindamoodbell.com
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Pro-Ed, Inc. is a leading publisher of nationally standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals covering:
- Speech, Language, and Hearing
- Psychology and Counseling
- Special Education (including Developmental Disabilities, Rehabilitation, and Gifted Education)
- Early Childhood Intervention
- Occupational and Physical Therapy
http://www.proedinc.com/
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This website offers (for sale) a program of teaching techniques that is claimed to overcome dyslexia. There are two versions of the program, a Senior Version for 10-year-olds through adults, and a Junior Version for youngsters in the second, third and fourth grades. The Reading from Scratch program, enabling a child to work happily at his intellectual level, can literally turn his life around.
http://www.dyslexia.org/introduction.shtml
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This website offers special education law and advocacy strategies. It is the home page for Reed Martin, J.D., an attorney with more than 33 years experience in special education law.
http://www.reedmartin.com/
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Welcome to Stevenson Learning Skills, the company that publishes the Stevenson Reading Program, Semple Math and other materials for teaching essential skills to both regular and learning disabled students. Our methods are unusual and innovative. We use established techniques like mnemonics (memory aids) and multisensory instruction in imaginative new ways. The materials accommodate common learning problems, such as attention deficits, phonological processing difficulties, memory weakness and sequencing confusion. In addition to publishing, w...
http://www.stevensonsemple.com/index.htm
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The companion website to the book, How Does Your Engine Run? A Leader's Guide to the Alert Program for Self-Regulation (Williams & Shellenberger, 1996), describes an innovative program that supports children, teachers, parents, and therapists to choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain states of alertness. Although this program initially was intended for children with attention and learning difficulties, ages 8-12, it has been adapted for preschool through adult and for a variety of disabilities.
http://www.alertprogram.com/
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This is a CD based listening program available from the Center for InnerChange, based on The Tomatis Method. The Tomatis Method is a program based on the theory that to be a good learner, you must be a good listener and teaches people to be better listeners through music therapy. It has been effective in the treatment of learning difficulties and behavioral problems.
http://www.centerforinnerchange.com/
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This guide will tells students: what an IEP is; why you need to be part of your IEP team; how to help write your IEP; and much, much more.
http://www.ldonline.org/
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This website has guidelines for raising children with special needs. It mentions the steps you may need to take to reach a diagnosis.
http://www.specialchildren.about.com/
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The ADHDSupportCompany.com site is "the site filled with timely, relevant information for everyone whose life is touched by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: parents, patients, teachers, doctors, nurses, family and friends."
http://www.adhdsupportcompany.com
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Founded in 1995, by pediatrician Dr. Mel Levine and financier Charles R. Schwab, All Kinds of Minds is a non-profit Institute that helps students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific, and clinical expertise.
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/
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This web site is intended for the parents whose child has been diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) or suspect their child may have the disorder.
http://pages.cthome.net/cbristol/capd.html
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This is a list of key characteristics of gifted students are: visually impaired; hearing impaired; and physical disabilities.
http://www.twicegifted.net/distraits.htm
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This article looks at the different learning disabilities and things to consider when having a highly gifted children diagnosed as well as providing some suggestions for accommodating these children.
http://www.nldline.com/giftednl.htm
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This article, by Lisa Fine, discusses how educators generally know how to help twice exceptional children, but how few districts actually do.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2001/10/24/08twice.h21.html
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This article, hosted by the world's leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD, discusses the common symptoms of Dysgraphia and offers a variety of accommodations and modifications that can be implemented to help the student achieve.
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/writing/dysgraphia.html
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"Facts-on-Hand" is an easy to read series on special education and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA is the nation's special education law. Under IDEA, if a child is found to be a child with a disability, he or she is eligible for special education and related services. Read this article for more information.
http://www.fape.org/pubs/fape_41.pdf
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An excellent video from LD Online; Richard Lavoie shows the audience what children with learning disabilities experience everyday. Strategies for working more effectively with children who struggle are available at the end.
http://learningstore.org/products/LD1001.html
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This academy is a one-of-a-kind school for bright children with unique learning differences. Many are gifted in specific intellectual and academic areas, but their giftedness is not perceived by educators because they aren't able to achieve in traditional academic environments with traditional methods, materials and techniques. They learn differently. Churchill Academy is open to any student regardless of national origin, race, sex or religion.
http://www.churchillacademy.com/
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"Riverside School is a non-sectarian, non-profit, private coeducational day school, approved by the state of Virginia as a proprietary school. Riverside school provides a multi-sensory, structured and rational education for children with specific learning disabilities in grades 1-8."
http://www.riversideschool.org/
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Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
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This book serves as a great primer for a mostly unheard of, frequently misunderstood learning condition. Many consider these bright, academically underachieving kids a conundrum. Many are labeled unmotivated, lazy, or troublemakers. The children are bored, confused, or unable to organize themselves enough to succeed in today's classrooms. People who are involved with children in schools, or parents who just "know" that there is just something wrong or different about their bright child who is doing poorly in school should read this book!
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Starr Cline and Diane Schwartz focus on how teachers can help their students reach their full potential. The authors discuss reasons for the failure to integrate gifted education into the fabric of the school and the relationships between multiple intelligences philosophy and the curriculum.
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0133999084-1
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Find strategies for handling various learning difficulties and get a more complete understanding of why your child acts the way he/she does. This book presents a way of thinking about many of the common forms of learning disorders, their recognition, their implications, and their treatment. Specifically, chapters 2-7 describe the areas in which neurodevelopmental dysfunction may hinder learning and performance in school. There are also sections on "demystification," which provides a process that adults can use when talking to their children abo...
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/Excerpt.aspx?productid=5
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This text's research is included in every book and research paper concerning "Twice-Exceptional," "Gifted/Learning Disabled," or underserved gifted populations that has followed. It is a must have for all researchers, parents, and or teachers who are concerned about or deal with highly able students that have mitigating problems.
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This book is a hopeful, fascinating study of gifted and profoundly gifted people with learning disabilities and visual-spatial strengths. Thomas West's premise is that the things that seem like disabilities to us now at this time in history, may, in the future, be strengths in an increasingly visual world. West also discusses the influence of computers as both creative and compensatory tools for twice-exceptional gifted people.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=1573921556
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Janet W. Lerner and Frank Kline provide a comprehensive overview of this complex subject by covering theoretical approaches within the field, procedures for assessing and evaluating students, skills in the art of clinical teaching, teaching methods and strategies, and requirements of special education laws.
http://college.hmco.com/education/lerner/learning_dis/10e/students/index.html
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An award-winning book by the author of the acclaimed child-care guide 'The Difficult Child' shows parents how to deal with their child's or adolescent's emotional problems, from aggression to inattention to lack of friends. Topics covered include: lack of friends; poor self-image; sibling rivalry; hyperactivity; sadness and fearfulness; eating problems; nervous habits; aggressive behavior; defiance; sleep problems; lying; and learning disabilities.
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This book is a great educational resource for parents, educators or counselors of intelligent children who face learning difficulties. The authors, Weinfield, Barnes-Robinson, Jeweler and Shevitz, provide useful, practical advice for helping smart kids with learning challenges succeed in school.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=804
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Parents and teachers of gifted students with learning disabilities should be grateful for this definitive work on "conundrum kids" - the superb writer who can't add, the talented speech maker who can't write legibly. Chapters on young children provide practical suggestions and ideas for parents trying to decide when the child should start school and teachers trying to cope. The work also covers students up through college and deals with the topics of visual learning, motor functioning, auditory learning, language and learning, and psychological...
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This website is home to a bi-monthly publication about twice-exceptional children -- those who are gifted and have learning or attention difficulties. Readers will find reviews of books and products and profiles of experts, service providers, websites, and email discussion lists. Additional features include news from the 2e field, such as conference coverage, new research findings, information on new medications and a survey that 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter conducted about the needs of gifted kids who also have learning difficulties such a...
http://2enewsletter.com/
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Parents and teachers can learn more about IEPs from this chapter in the book by Wrightslaw, as well as get helpful information to develop a strategy by analyzing your child's level of performance and setting goals for achievement.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/bks/feta/ch12.ieps.pdf
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