Helping+Your+Special+Needs+Population

=**Sites for improving your ability to help your special needs students**=

__//**SciTrain**// - //**catea**//__ [] This is a on-going project through Georgia Institute of Technology to create a site for teachers to research appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities. For the most part it includes low-incidence disabilities such a hearing impairments, vision impairments and motor impairments. They are actually beginning to set up links to the information on assistive technology in wikis. Good resource if you have students with disabilities in your classroom. Added by: Michele

__//**Disabled Students Program**//__ Teaching Students with Disabilities - University of California, Berkley [] This site offers a brief description of working with students with a variety of disabilities. You can skip the first four sections and move straight to the disability your student may have. The information is a concise list of generally best practices for students with each specific disability. Added by: Michele

__//**Assisting Students with Disabilities**//__ A guide for Educators, Florida Department of Education [] Extensive 82-page PDF file on accommodations not only for your students with disabilities. It includes techniques for working with those students who do not qualify for special services but that have difficulties with math, writing, focusing, behavior and much more. It also reviews what Individualized Education Plans and 504 Plans are. Great resource for teachers that are looking for techniques on how to help some struggling students as well as youe students with disabilities. Added by: Michele