Special Education
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Project ACCESS
(Using Assistive Technology to Access Content Area Literacy in
Special
Education)
Project ACCES is a Department of Education Eisenhower Grant awarded
to the University of Tennessee designed to give school-based teams
of K-8 special and general education teachers a unique and critically
needed opportunity for professional development in content area
literacy and assistive technology. This website is an excellent
source of information regarding various learning disabilities
including simulation exercises, teaching strategies, assistive
technology tutorials as well as a wealth of helpful resources
and links to other sites.
Council of Exceptional
Children
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international
professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes
for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities,
and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental
policies, sets professional standards, provides continual professional
development, advocates for newly and historically under served
individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain
conditions and resources necessary for effective professional
practice. The website is a rich source of information regarding
exceptionalities of all kinds and associated legislation, public
policy, publications, resources, grant news and professional support.
(Reprinted from their website)
Circle
of Inclusion
This site has lots of resources and links pertaining to inclusion.
National
Center to Improve Practice in Special Education
This site has information about how to improve practices in special
education through the use of technology and media. It also has
guided to us to explore two exemplary early childhood classrooms.
Alliance for Technology
Access
This site has great information about assistive technology with
lots of resources and pdf files to download.
Adobe
Acrobat eBook Reader 2.2
The free Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader enables you to read eBooks
on your notebook or desktop computer - no special hardware is
needed!
Color
Blindness
If you want to check to see how a Web page looks to someone
with the most common form of color blindness. The site will run
a simulation of a how it looks to those who are color blind.
