In this section, you will discover curriculum to use with Special Needs children, 
lessons that accommodate multiple learning styles and many sites
which will provide support and ideas for use in your classroom.
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Resources for Your Classroom:

General
Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Materials for the Inclusive Classroom
This series of articles written by Teachervision has some excellent step-by-step instructions for creating lessons for the inclusive classroom.

Council for Exceptional Children Bookstore
The Council has created some excellent materials for the new or practicing teacher's professional library. 

Misunderstood Minds
The Misunderstood Minds project consists of three elements: the PBS documentary, the companion Web site on PBS Online, and the Developing Minds Multimedia Library. A co-production of the Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd., and WGBH Boston, the documentary is a 90-minute film that examines several learning problems and disabilities by following five families who try, together with experts, to solve the mysteries of their children's learning difficulties.

Classroom Management
You Can Handle Them All
Excellent tips for behavior management in the classroom. The site offers a "Behavior of the Day", 117 solutions for dealing with behavior problems and much more. Great resources for any teacher.

Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Site
This Web site offers positive and practical ideas for managing student behavior. Teachers may post a concern on the bulletin board and get suggestions from teachers around the world.

United Educators of Texas Classroom Help
Some excellent tips for managing discipline, talking to parents about students who have behavior problems have been created by the United Educators of Texas Association.

Early Childhood
Pre-School Zone
The Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools has placed special emphasis on resources for early childhood educators. Teaching ideas, research and  assistive technology information is all available here.

Kids Activities
Some great games, puzzles and stories here for all levels of learning.

Math:
Plane Math
Grade 4 and up. An Internet-based curriculum on math and aeronautics for children with physical disabilities. This content was funded through a cooperative agreement with NASA. It is designed to provide students with mathematics-based activities that don't require manipulative materials.

Graph the Math Staff Project
Grade 6 to 8. Several math lessons with modification for special needs children that focus on spreadsheets.
These lessons were created by a teacher team at Jamie Lick Middle School using Title VI funding.

10 Tips for Software Selection for Math Instruction
Great hints on choosing and using software to support math instruction for students with learning disabilities, plus software recommendations from Beatrice C. Babbit, Ph.D.

Language Arts:
Chicago Public Schools 
Grade K to 10. Language Arts lessons created by Chicago Public Schools specifically addressing modification. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

Friendship and Stories
This excellent site from LD Online provides information and a sample lesson plan for using children's literature to teach friendship skills to children with learning disabilities.

Learning Abilities Books  
Grade Pre-K to 5. Explore children's books, lesson plans, and other educational resources for parents, teachers, and home schoolers with regular and special education.

Special Education Reading
Grade 1 to 6. Though there is a lot of material on many special education topics on this site, the section on reading has some great tips. 

HELP Read
Grade K - 8. You can download a text reader to help students with disabilities learn to read. The text reader, which supports both English and Hawaiian, reads Web pages and text files, looks up definitions, and links to nearly 500 works of literature.

Reading with Fluency
Grade 7. Language Arts lesson created by Chicago Public Schools specifically addressing modification. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

Writing for a Purpose in Senior College English
Grade 11 - 12. In spite of this unit's title, it is designed for junior and senior high school students who are two to four years below grade level. Developed by Cynthia Roberts at Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute.

Social Studies:

The Constitution, Juvenile Justice, and You
Grade 9 to 12. A lesson plan developed for Special Education students.

Helen Keller 
Grade 6 - 8. There are many lesson plans and units about Helen Keller available on the Internet, including this one titled Famous Person: Helen Keller, which uses Keller's book, The Story of My Life.

Kennedy Years Unit
Grade 8. This unit on the Kennedy years is adapted for inclusion of special education students by Julia Daniely, Pat Graham, and Donna Kerr of Miller Core Knowledge Magnet School, Macon, Georgia.

Other Subjects:

Great Ideas for Special Artists
Colin Smith, a teacher at Noble Park Special Developmental School (Melb., Aust.), shares his fantastic "hands on" art program for learners with disabilities. These ideas can be used with anyone, and encourage full participation of the student to create individual art works.

People with Disabilities:

Bits of Braille
Grade 4 to 6. After sharing the books Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson and Helen Keller: Crusader for the Blind and Deaf by Stewart Graff, the class will study the Braille Alphabet to determine their name designations and various other word conversions. 

Inspirational Voices Unit
Grade 9 to 12. This secondary thematic unit uses Gibson's The Miracle Worker and Helen Keller as the main character.

Helen Keller/Annie Sullivan: Venn Diagram
Grade 6 to 8. To be used in conjunction with the movie, "The Miracle Worker" and the relationship of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan.

Famous People Who Had Disabilities
Grade 5 - 8.   Franklin Delano Roosevelt and others are the focus of this lesson.

The Polio History Pages
No unit on the the history of disabilities or disease would be complete without some mention of polio, the near hysteria caused by the epidemics of the early 1950s, and the euphoria that greeted the development of the Salk vaccine. 

A Polio History Quest
A set of 25 questions, complete with a printable worksheet, coinciding with the information provided within the Polio History Pages. It should be appropriate for use with grades 5 and up. See also Understanding Viruses (grades 9-12).

Take a Tour: Teachers in the Spotlight: 

Paula's Special Education Resources
Paula Bliss, is a teacher at Crotched Mountain School a private residential school in NH for students with physical, emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. 

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