Resources (Learning Disabilities) « Disabilities – Learning

Resources About Learning Disabilities (Websites, Blogs)

• 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter
  The newsletter is “a bi-monthly electronic publication for those who raise, educate, and counsel high-ability children with learning issues such as AD/HD, dyslexia, Asperger’s, and so forth.”
• Anna's Blog
  Anna’s Blog aims to be a space where educators can share ideas and advise to help better serve students with disabilities.
• Anne's Learning Disabilities Blog
  Another About.com blog. This one offers more tips for the special-education teacher and parent.
• Clear Helper
  A self-advocacy educational and networking website for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Derek Paravicini
  Derek is an extraordinarily talented pianist, despite being blind and having severe learning difficulties. He plays entirely by ear, and has a repertoire of many thousands of pieces that he has memorised – jazz, pop and light classical – and he is a great improviser.
• Diagnostic Criteria for Attention Deficit Disorder
  From David Rabiner, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at Duke University.
• EBD Blog
  Emotional and behavioral disorders are the focus of this blog, which offers news, commentary, resources, and more.
• Eide Neurolearning Blog
  This blog shares weekly articles “related to brain-based learning and learning styles, problem-solving and creativity, kids, families, and parenting, gifted and visual learners, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, autism, and more.”
• I Speak of Dreams
  Liz Ditz writes this blog about effective parent, learning disabilities and more. She shares news, reviews, and resources about learning disabilities, with a focus on autism.
• Learning Disabilities, ADHD and Education Support
  Link above is to a forum discussion that answers the question "Are you using your most effective advocacy tool?" with suggestions for communications with schools regarding evaluation, including information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
• Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision (Pediatrics in Review – 7/27/09)
  A new resource available that endorses only scientifically-proven interventions for dyslexia and learning disabilities. Notes and Quotes from an Advocacy perspective.
• Links to Helping Your Child With Reading Disabilities
  Paired Reading, Read-Alouds, and homework support
• Online Summer Reading Sites for Students With Special Needs (MangoMom blog – 5/28/10)
  A list of websites with online reading games and activities and booklists that you can pass along to parents for summer reading for students, including students with special needs.
• Reading Disabilities
  Because schools, reading disabilities, and education laws are complex, most parents of children with reading disabilities feel overwhelmed and intimidated. They want to help their children, but don’t know how. A new blog for parents, Learning & Reading Disabilities, shows parents (and teachers) how to improve the odds that their children can succeed in reading.
• The Language Fix
  Speech therapy is the focus of this blog, which can be used to help children with special needs or children in standard courses.