Instructional lesson plans, activities, and
resources aligned to Kentucky curriculum
Links to useful classroom websites
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Resources are given which provide information and assistance with disability issues in your area from state agencies, disability organizations, parent organizations, and other organizations.
http://www.nichcy.org/stateshe/ky.htm
Teachers and parents are provided with twenty activities to encourage communication. Additional strategies are also listed to expand expressive communication.
http://aac.unl.edu/intervention/Encourage_Communication.html
Sign language instructions are given in easy-to-follow video format.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/index.htm
The American Foundation for the Blind created an age appropriate site for students to learn about braille. Under games, students can see what their name looks like in braille, or figure out words with a braille alphabet close by. Students can also change the colors on this website to make it easier to read (have students who are designing their own pages learn about accessibility).
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/
An excellent resource of projects for the computer teacher. This site provides many activities, which may be used in fine arts, language arts, math, social studies, and science classes. Additional holiday projects are included.
http://www.buddyproject.org/capers/default.asp
A Discipline Model for Handling over 100 different misbehaviors at home and at school.
http://www.disciplinehelp.com/
Reading and writing activities for birth to preschool including story ending, funny sounds, rhyme time, and more.
http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/early.html
Resources are given which provide information and assistance with disability issues in your area from state agencies, disability organizations, parent organizations, and other organizations.
http://www.nichcy.org/stateshe/ky.htm
Interactive games for children & resources for teachers.
http://www.kiddonet.com/gb/
This site offers a variety of links for the teacher or parent of a special education student. It may also be used in an early childhood class. An excellent listing of developmental activities for birth to five years old is also included.
http://www.liveandlearn.com/learn.html
The website states its purpose is to "provide educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction."
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Using music to promote learning. Ideas and resources for using music to teach content across the curriculum to students of all ages.
http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.htm
Activities for classroom management of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, ways to infuse music into the special education classroom, behavior modification, and ideas for modifying the elementary classroom for the special education student.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html
This site provides excellent activities in educational game or worksheet format that will enforce phonic rules, sight words, specialist vocabulary, mathematical rules, concepts and sums, etc. They may be copied in whole or in part for use in private homes, educational authorities and institutions, provided that their source is acknowledged.
http://www.geocities.com/SEN_resources/resources.html
Ideas for attention deficit children and strategies for cognitively impulsive children are addressed along with suggested classroom accommodations for specific behaviors.
http://www.cdipage.com/teacher.htm