Special Education Resources

EducatingAllLearners.org

Just in Time: a Resource Hub on Remote Learning for Special Education Students

Nearly 30 disability rights and education advocacy organizations have launched EducatingAllLearners.org, a resource hub and online network designed to answer questions and provide insight about remote learning for special education students during the coronavirus crisis. ….

EducatingAllLearners.org users can create a free account to share ideas, contribute to discussions and access case studies and webinars. The site will also host virtual office hours with special education attorneys, parent advocates, and educators to field questions about legal rights and classroom practice.

“Schools are in crisis mode, adapting quickly to meet the needs of students,” said Erin Mote, the executive director of InnovateEDU, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit. “We began to see all these diversified, diffuse resources popping up all over the place. We wanted to provide a place where all those resources could come together.”

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2020/04/supporting_special_education_s.html?

Technology and Tools

Empower Mobile App

This resource is an app targeted to students who learn differently to empower their own self-awareness and self-advocacy. It is helpful for educators to share with parents to work on these skills while at home in the absence of in person mentoring and support. Students can discover and share their strengths, challenges, allies, and accommodations through engaging, creative quests. RESOURCE LINK

Google Tools to Make Your Presentations Accessible

How to turn on and use accessibility tools like close captioning, screen reader, braille, text to speech and speech to text features using Google. Recommended by WestEd. RESOURCE LINK

Learning at Home during COVID-19 (for educators); Get Books on Line

This resource is a free online library that provides access to over 800,000 customizable, accessible online ebooks designed with students with learning barriers in mind. For students that do not qualify, Bookshare provides nearly 10,000 ebooks in our specialized formats that anyone can read for free. Teachers can create free school accounts and easily assign books to students to read their own. Parents can also sign up students for free. RESOURCE LINK

Orton Gillingham Apps

This resource provides recommended apps from the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education, which is focused on the Orton Gillingham reading intervention model. RESOURCE LINK

Text to Speech Tool

This resource provides a tool to translate text to speech and allows students/teachers to upload files, or insert text into text boxes to upload. The tool reads the text and highlights as words are being read, with flexibility in font size, font, and speed. RESOURCE LINK

Using Assistive Technology to Empower Students with Disabilities

Article highlighting different assistive technology tools for students
with learning disabilities. Most of these tools can be applied to
help with online learning. RESOURCE LINK