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Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities

Dyslexia

Learning Disabilities (LD)

  • LD Online
    Learning Disabilities Awareness Month is a time where people pay particular attention to children and adults with learning disabilities. During this month, LD OnLine asks each of you to teach one person something new about learning disabilities.
  • The National Center on Learning Disabilities
    The mission of NCLD is to improve the lives of the 1 in 5 children and adults nationwide with learning and attention issues—by empowering parents and young adults, transforming schools and advocating for equal rights and opportunities.
  • The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
    The Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR) offers information and connections to the full spectrum of disabilities in children, including developmental delays and rare disorders.
  • Reading Rockets
    Learning Disabilities Awareness Month (October) is a time where people pay special attention to children and adults with learning disabilities. During this month, Reading Rockets asks each of you to teach one person one new thing about learning disabilities. If you find an interesting article or resource here, consider passing it along to a friend, family member, or colleague.
  • The National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)
    AEM provides resources and technical assistance for educators, parents, students, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about AEM and implementing AEM and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).
  • Lesson Planet
    Lesson Planet is the leading online curriculum search solution for PreK-12 educators. The award-winning search engine enables teachers to easily search more than 350,000+ teacher-reviewed curriculum resources within an online, professional community.

Academic & Behavior Interventions

  • Florida Center for Reading Research
    The Florida Center for Reading Research is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University that was established in 2002 by the Governor’s office and Legislature. Currently, FCRR is home to nine tenured and tenure-track faculty members holding joint appointments with the College of Arts & Sciences or College of Education.
  • ASCD
    A global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading. Links to DI definition, infographic, videos
  • CAST
    Provides professional learning services and publications to educators to deepen their knowledge and practice of UDL in instructional design and teaching.
  • IDEAs That Work
    OSERS’ mission is to provide leadership to achieve full integration and participation in society of people with disabilities by ensuring equal access to, and excellence in, education, employment and community living.
  • Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
    The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. We are independent and non-partisan. Our mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the public.
  • Intervention Central
    Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards.
  • National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII)
    The Mission of the NCII is to build capacity of state and local education agencies, universities, practitioners, and other stakeholders to support implementation of intensive intervention in reading, mathematics, and behavior for students with severe and persistent learning and/or behavioral needs.
  • Assistive Technology & Universal Design for Learning Loan Library
    Provides professional learning services and publications to educators to deepen their knowledge and practice of UDL in instructional design and teaching.
  • National Center on Universal Design for Learning
    Learn more about the basic concepts of UDL, how to implement UDL, and more.

Academic Mindsets for Learner Success

  • Growth Mindset for Parents
    Developed in collaboration with Raise The Bar. Parents learn what a growth mindset is, why it’s important, and best practices to support their children in developing this learning belief.
  • The Power of Believing That You can Improve
    Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. In this talk, she describes two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve. Are you not smart enough to solve it … or have you just not solved it yet? A great introduction to this influential field.

Teaching & Learning Resources

  • Annenberg Media Learner
    A resource for teachers and “teacher professional development programming across the curriculum.” As stated on the website, Annenberg Media’s mission “is to advance excellent teaching in American schools through the development and distribution of multimedia resources for teaching and learning.” Annenberg Media is “a unit of the Annenberg Foundation, which funds a wide range of programs in education and other areas.
  • Center on Instruction
    Source for information on Research-based Instruction. This site includes “a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning. Part of the Comprehensive Center network, the Center on Instruction is one of five content centers serving as resources for the 16 regional U.S. Department of Education Comprehensive Centers.
  • Cognitive Strategy Instruction (CSI)
    Learning How to Learn: Strategy instruction is one of the most effective ways of improving academic performance for children with learning difficulties. This site will show you how to do it, will provide examples or strategies, and provide a forum to discuss your experiences and questions.
  • Education Resources Information Center
    An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education and “provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
  • Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
    The US DOE’s Institute for Education Sciences WHAT WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE provides educators with “the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.
  • Intervention Central
    Intervention Central is a website that provides free resources for teachers
  • International Dyslexia Association
    International Definition of Dyslexia, Dyslexia Basics
  • Just Read, Florida!
    A comprehensive and coordinated reading initiative; information for students, parents, and teachers.
  • Learning Systems Institute
    The Learning Systems Institute, located on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, “is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to bridging the gap between research and practice in education and training. The institute develops practical and workable solutions in learning and performance, based on solid research.”
  • Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)
    “LINCS offers a number of professional development opportunities. Trainings and workshops are generally provided at no cost through the LINCS Regional Professional Development Centers (RPDCS).”
  • National Academic Press (NAP)
    “The National Academies work toward the improvement of education for the public. Research areas include education reform, teachers and instruction, and higher education and training. Through studies, reports, workshops, and other activities this research focuses on the most critical issues facing education: standards, teaching, technology, preparation of youth for productive futures, and the improvement of educational research.”
  • National Center on Education Outcomes (NCEO)
    Provides national leadership in the participation of students with disabilities in national and state assessments, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements.
  • National Math & Science Initiative (NMSI)
    Provides ideas and programs with proven effectiveness and quantifiable results. Efforts are directed to improving the current and future math and science teachers in the K-12 system and to raising the achievement of American students from the first grade through college.
  • Teaching Channel
  • Teacher Tube
    Provides an online community for sharing instructional videos. Teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a skill/concept.
  • Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention (TACSEI)
    TACSEI takes the research that shows which practices improve the social-emotional outcomes for young children with, or at risk for, delays or disabilities and creates free products and resources to help decision-makers, caregivers, and service providers apply these best practices in the work they do every day
  • TechMatrix
    Assistive technology tolls and resources to support learning for students with disabilities and their classmates.

Adolescent Literacy & Adolescent Struggling Readers

Online Resources for Educators 

  • Edmodo
    Provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework…
  • EDSITEment
    The best of the humanities on the web.” Explore their library of lesson plans by subject: Art & Culture, Foreign Language, History & Social Studies, Literature & Language Arts.
  • Edutopia.org
    contains a deep archive of continually updated best practices, from classroom tips to recommendations for district-wide change.
  • Illuminations
    Resources for Teaching Math – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Khan Academy
    Free educational materials and resources for parents, teachers, and learners of all ages. Visit this site to brouse their extensive video library or try a practice exercise.
  • LD Online
    the leading web site on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.
  • Partnership for 21st Century Skills
    P21’s reports and publications support a vision for learning to ensure 21st century readiness for every student.
  • National Geographic Education
    teaching resources
  • Reading Rockets
    national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
  • Reasoning Mind
    partners with schools, helping teachers use RM as a core math curriculum. A Reasoning Mind classroom is a hybrid of online and face-to-face instruction, where the teacher gives each child individual help and attention.
  • Schwab Foundation
    Enables parents to become informed consumers of information about learning and attention problems and effective advocates for their children by providing trustworthy information and guidance in an online environment of compassion and community.
  • Science Net Links
    Find Science Lessons and tools for k-12
  • Smithsonian Education
    Information and resources for educators, families, and students.

Online Libraries and Books

  • Florida Electronic Library
    Portal to digital collections about Florida for students, research scholars and consumers.
  • Lit2Go
    Lit2GO – a free online collection of stories and poems in audiobook format.
  • Library of Congress – Read.gov
    The Library of Congress and the Advertising Council have launched a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to encourage children and adults to become engaged in reading and all other forms of literacy.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg

Science, Technology & Mathematics (STEM)

Virtual Education