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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: On Disability Rights: Highlights From Speeches by Ed Roberts

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "On Disability Rights: Highlights from Speeches By Ed Roberts," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Transitioning Students With Disabilities to Higher Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How can you help high school students get ready for post-secondary education? Review these recommendations from the Department of Education and find out how to help students understand their disabilities, explain their disabilities to...
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Gifted and Learning Disabled? It Is Possible!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Is it possible for a student to be gifted and learning disabled? The author of this article speaks from personal experience with such students. She provides general suggetions for teachers wanting to identify gifted students with LD and...
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Handout
Other

Hoagies' Gifted: Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn how to identify students who are both learning disabled and gifted and help keep them interested in class activities, prevent them from falling behind, and encourage them to explore and demonstrate their academic and creative...
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Article
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: College Planning for Students With Learning Disabilities

For Students 9th - 10th
This article will help teachers who are guiding LD students in looking for and applying to college programs. Find a list of questions teachers and students should consider as they explore schools and their options for students with...
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Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Underachieving Gifted Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find a definition of "underachievement," "strategies to reverse patterns of underachievement," and ways family members can support underachieving gifted students. Includes a list of references for further reading.
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Handout
Other

Students With Traumatic Brain Injury [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A helpful PDF article on meeting the needs of students who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The article provides a personal story, definition, and characteristics of TBI, and outlines specific classroom strategies and helpful...
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Giftedness and Learning Disabilities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"How does one identify the learning disabled gifted?" "What are the major classroom problems and how can they be solved?" Find the answers to these questions and also find tips for parents and resources for parents and children.
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Article
Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Learning Disability or Language Development Issue?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help for teachers struggling to determine whether an English language learner is challenged by a learning disability or by a normal language acquisition issue.
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Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"How do teachers develop an instructional plan that will be challenging, enlightening, and intriguing to students of different abilities?" Find the answer to this question and sources for further reading.
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Graphic
Other

Ncld: Student Voices: A Study of Young Adults With Learning and Attention Issues

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site shares research about effective approaches for instructing adolscents who possess spefiic learning disabilities. Research is available via the video and report links found on the site.
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Website
Other

Urban Collaborative: Leading Equitable and Inclusive Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The website is for an organization that works to improve outcomes for learning disabled students in urban schools. Networking, training, reporting on latest developments in the field, are just some of the services offered.
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: What Is a Learning Disability?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Provided is a detailed explanation of learning disabilities, and descriptions of different types of learning disabilities. A useful overview of learning disabilities.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Invent Apps That Help Others and Build Empathy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students will discover how new apps are improving the lives of people with a disability or illness and helping to raise empathy. Students will create an app.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in Integrated Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...
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Website
LD Online

Ld Online: Strategies for Composition in the Writing Process

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An extensive discourse on strategies to teach writing skills to learning disabled children. Authors have developed an approach known as self-regulated strategy development (SRSD). In this paper they elaborate on the research they...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Misunderstood Minds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful spotlight on scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school. Includes profiles of the students in the documentary as well as interactive activities designed to give site visitors a...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Seeing the World Through a Different Lens

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will participate in a variety of activities modeling different disabilities. After discussing their experiences, students work in teams to devise or improve on an adaptive device.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Seeing the World Through a Different Lens

For Students 6th - 8th
Students will participate in a variety of activities modeling different disabilities. After discussing their experiences, students work in teams to devise or improve on an adaptive device.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design a Carrying Device for People Using Crutches

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students are given a biomedical engineering challenge, which they solve while following the steps of the engineering design process. In a design lab environment, student groups design, create, and test prototype devices that help people...
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Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: Veterans History Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection, sponsored by the Library of Congress, of stories and experiences of veterans "while they are still among us." Students can also interview a veteran using the Project Kit supplied. Choose: How to participate in the Project...
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Website
Other

Wizzlewolf: Special Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site with links to numerous others that are a valuable component to any teacher who works with students with disabilities. Site developed by a National Board Certified Teacher.
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Professional Doc
LD Online

Ld Online: Adhd and Children Who Are Gifted

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides a description of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and compares the prevalence of ADHD in students who are identified as gifted, or vice versa. Also included is a discussion on the current research findings...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Big Dreams

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a disabled man from Ghana who became a triathlete. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.

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