Special Education: Resources For Parents & Teachers

Titles	URLs	Notations
LD Online	http://www.ldonline.org/	This site is designed for parents, teachers, and students. Teachers can gain strategies in teaching their special education students. Parents can gain techniques in assisting their special education students. The site also contains a kids zone where students can visit.
Office Of Special Education	http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/sped/projects/ose/categories/ld.html	This site can serve as a great reference tool for both parents and teachers who are struggling to understand learning disabilities. The site contains links that explain what learning disabilities are as well as going into detail about many disabilities.
Adaptive Technology Resource Center	http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/tech/grammar.html#windows	This link contains many sites that provide the LD student with free adaptive technology. Some of the software includes Super Spell Check, Word Web Pro, and Type It For Me (mac only).
Teaching LD	http://www.teachingld.org/	This site contains many resources for both parents and teachers. When exploring this site, you may find teaching how to's, Online discussions, and many LD resources.
The Instant Access Treasure Chest	http://www.fln.vcu.edu/ld/ld.html	This site truly owns up to its name. This site is contains information on many common disabilities, assistive technology, and strategies to use when teach LD students foreign language.
Get Ready to Read	http://www.getreadytoread.org/parents.cfm	This site is great for parents, teachers, and LD students in increase reading ability. The site contains many research articles dealing with early literacy, as well as skill building activities in the area of literacy.