Autism Society

This website has a strong advocacy program for people with autism spectrum disorders. This website is useful largely for people with autism as well as their families. Parents could get a lot of help from this website, such as in the section on living with autism.

Rocky Point Academy Autism Solutions Center

This website focuses on autism. It has a detailed list of the characteristics and signs of someone with autism, including social skills, physical  aspects, language aspects, behavioural aspects, and more. It also details ways to use clay and creativity to teach students new concepts and skills.

ASHA.org | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

This website has a section on TBI that is very detailed. It includes information on what occurs physically and cognitively after someone has a TBI, and what someone with a TBI can do to get help.

CDC.gov on TBI

This section of the CDC website focuses on TBI: the outcomes and general facts (such as causes and risks) of TBI. There are also very professional reports and fact sheets that have additional information such as victimization of people with a TBI.

BTF | Brain Trauma Foundation

This could be a good website to point parents of a child who has a TBI to, as it has information on comas, concussions, and many resources and links. It is also useful for me as a teacher because it has statistics, resources/links, and even a glossary.

OpenDyslexic.org | Dyslite (plugin)

This website is entirely dedicated to developing and improving a font specifically designed to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. It’s very visually appealing in general, and free to use with attribution. They are constantly updating it. There is also a way to use it in conjunction with storyboardthat.com.



Dyslite
This plug-in for a web browser converts all text in webpages to the OpenDyslexic font mentioned previously. It is a paid program ($7.95 at the time of writing this), but could be useful in a school to have on specific laptops, or to potentially purchase a bulk license. It’s also in the app store!

LD Online

This website is awesome for parents, teachers, and even children. It has an overview of SLDs, as well as specific sections with resources and explanations for teachers, parents, and children. The section for kids is visually directed at them, and includes a part with books that they could be able to relate to. This is a great resource to direct parents to if they are unsure of how to help their child. They might find the glossary especially helpful.

Teaching LD

This website has a solid overview of specific learning disabilities. A specific section contains article abstracts that can allow for easy access and quick finds of professionally written articles on related topics.There is also a great article on developing CAPs to help deliver various content to students with a SLD that would definitely benefit all students. If you have or create an account with the website (which may require subscription fees) then there is additional content such as hot sheets and lesson plans.

LDA America

This website provides information on managing learning disorders as a parent, an educator, and adult, and a professional. Assessment, technology, and mental health are emphasized in each category, as well as issues such as employment, post-secondary options, and early intervention are also covered (as well as much more). For educators, there is information on dyslexia, disgraphia, dyspraxia, and dyscalcula, as well as things like ADHD, auditory processing disorder, and nonverbal learning disorders.

Do2Learn

This website has a great amount of information on how to identify different disabilities, as well as common characteristics of students with them and strategies to help them in the classroom. This website covers ADD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Delay, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Emotional Disturbance, Intellectual Disability, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, TBI, and Twice Exceptional. It also goes further and contains information on how to help students with their academic, social, and behaviour management skills. A lot of the information is aimed to younger grades, but the ideas behind the activities are still solid and helpful.

ADAA | Anxiety and Depression Association of America

This website is a great resource for information about different kinds of anxiety disorders. It covers things such as different types (OCD, panic attacks, etc), suicide, how it looks in teens and college students, and how to find or give help. There is a linked pdf that also discusses how to guide students through a hard time after a suicide has occurred in school.

Peer Presentation on ID (361)

This is a short google slides production on intellectual disabilities by my classmates in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Peer Presentation on ASD (361)

This is a short google slides production on the autism spectrum by my classmates in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Peer Presentation on ED (361)

This is a short google slides production on emotional disturbances by my classmates in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Peer Presentation on OHI

This is a short google slides production on other health impairments by my classmates in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Peer Presentation on SLD (361)

This is a short google slides production on specific learning disabilities by a classmate and me in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Peer Presentation on TBI (361)

This is a short google slides production on TBI by my classmates in my SED361 class. It includes prevalence rates, common characteristics, teacher tips, links and resources, and more.

Autism Now

This website is very easy to navigate and includes several main sections including autism in the classroom, the community, at home, and at work. This alone shows the breadth of the website. Many topics are included such as: traveling, promoting inclusion, transition planning, college, planning for employment, employment support services, information across the lifespan, and building relationships. There is also a searchable map for local agencies.

The Arc

This website is dedicated to resources for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In addition to an overview of intellectual disabilities,

this includes information on different services available as well as public policies for the areas. There is information that could be very helpful for parents and families on this website.

National Dropout Prevention Center

This website addresses the problems students who drop out face and includes some effective strategies for how to prevent that. It also has a database of resources on student dropouts that you can search by keyword or phrase.

International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation

This website is an encyclopedia of information and articles (including original work) on many different categories and related content about disabilities and special education. It includes information on things like intellectual disabilities, but also includes information about many other related topics such as diseases, instructional methods, reviewed articles, and far far more.

Project Ideal Online

IDEAL, or Informing and Designing Education for All Learners, has very clear information and ideas on students with disabilities in many different categories (learning disabilities, speech & language, emotional disturbance, multiple disabilities, orthopedic, traumatic brain injury, intellectual, visual, hearing impairments, deaf-blindness, other health impairments, developmental delay, and autism). There are many presentations to assist you in learning about these, as well as modules that can be used for teaching. Each section has an incredible amount of information, such as the impact on the student’s education, and many many MANY ways to help them. Assistive technologies are also included, as well as lists of organizations and (even more!) resources.

Mentalhelp.net

This particular link to the site is a single page of a very lengthy and informative document on intellectual disabilities. There is a vast wealth of information here; this particular page focuses on effective teaching methods. However, also on this website is information on a wide variety of mental disorders, including ADHD, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia, epilepsy and more. It also addresses external problems that some students may face whether disabled or not, such as abuse, addiction, eating disorders, dating, divorce, and far more. This is definitely worth looking into.

IRIS Glossary

This is the glossary section of a website featuring many articles and activities on disability, particularly with children in the classroom. This glossary section has a ton of terms used throughout their articles and is easily searchable.

NICHCY | Parent Center Hub

This is a website with lots of information on many different disabilities. It offers prevalence rates, signs, tips, and more. This website is going out, but another website has taken up the currently posted information and organized it into a legacy resource section on their website. The base website itself is also a great resource for parents, whether or not they have a child with a disability. A very reliable resource for information on students with disabilities, this PDF has tips for teachers for teaching students with AD/HD, TBI, Autism,  LDs,  and IDs. While it is a bit dated, the information is still generally solid.

Cast.org

This is a really detailed list of ways to check that a lesson or unit is designed for universal understanding. It includes three main headings with separate elements of each, and each one links to an example of how it could be done or what it would look like. This is an excellent resource, and would be good to use as a check every now and then to ensure that my lessons are designed well.There is also a tool for designing UDL classrooms and programs that helps build a profile for students and gives a small chart to consider thinking about this students needs, strengths, and interests.

Disability is Natural

Person/People First Language website. It features articles and thoughts on thinking about people with disabilities in relation to people without disabilities.

It has a great Person/People First Language article that is short, informative, and interesting. This is told anecdotally and as a passionate story, and gives many examples.