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All-Learners' On-line Resource List

Welcome to our list of resources for educators, administrators, and parents who are working to provide an inclusive education to all students. Please help us keep this list up-to-date and useful! If you would like to nominate a link for our list, or if you encounter any errors when following these links, please contact the all-learners web master.

This list was last updated on 12/12/00.

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General Inclusion Web sites:

  • Inclusion: School as a caring community: An excellent inclusion resource, well worth a visit, which contains:
    • A basic Handbook for teachers at various grade levels who are implementing inclusive programs for the first time.
    • Field notes: Synopses of more than 100 interviews with teachers who have experienced success including special needs children in their classrooms.
    • The Inclusion List: An email-based discussion group, where you can ask a question, make a comment, or contribute information about your own success with inclusion. There are several inclusion experts who assist with responses to the email list. If a message is within the panel member's area of expertise, attempts are made to forward these messages to that member for a response.
    • On-line resource materials, inclusion bibliography, and extensive list of links to other inclusion and disability-specific web sites.

  • Inclusive Education: Stories and Strategies for Success: Information page for the Inclusion List discussion group; provides a thorough overview of inclusion issues and approaches.

  • Project Participate: Colorado-based project which provides caregivers, educators, administrators and therapists with simple strategies to increase the active participation of students with disabilities in school programs. Some portions of the site appear to still be under construction, but don't miss these excellent sections:

    • Handouts and forms:
      forms for composing functional goals, documenting student participation, and delineating roles for team members.

    • High-tech How-tos:
      Brief tutorials for Microsoft Paint, digital cameras, single switch activities, and using Intellipics and Intellikeys in the classroom.

    • Gadgets and Gizmos:
      Low-tech curriculum ideas that require little money or planning and promote active participation in the home, school, or community.

  • McGill University Inclusive Education site: Teaching tips from a well-respected Canadian university.

  • Illinois State Board of Education's On-line Assistive Technology Resource Manual: Has an inclusion page with tips gathered from various on-line sources.

  • Renaissance Group Inclusive Education site: The Renaissance Group is a consortium of universities noted for their teacher preparation programs and for working to reform teacher education. Their web site contains recommended teaching strategies, models for decision making and preparing for inclusion, and an excellent collection of links to other web sites and resource lists for inclusive education.

  • Out of the Box: Teaching to Reach All Learners: Web site compiled by an experienced special education teacher who is now teaching a general education second grade class which includes students with varying exceptionality including learning disabilities. Well illustrated curriculum modifications and success stories.

  • MESH Manual: This manual provides guidelines for the development of inclusive schools, with examples from two elementary schools in the state of Washington.

  • Inclusive Schools: A database serving all teachers and school districts in Washington State, which provides information on laws, best practices, examples of programs and recommended resources related to the use of inclusion strategies by school districts for the provision of special education services.

  • Project CHOICES: A "least restrictive environment" initiative funded by the Illinois State Board of Education. There are two components to the Project: CHOICES, which supports school-age children; and Early CHOICES, which supports preschool-aged children. Technical assistance is available to all public school districts in Illinois. This assistance can take the form of on-site consultations for individual students and classrooms, to agency-wide inservices and assistance in inclusion planning.

  • Utah's Project for Inclusion: Comprehensive and well-organized site describing how the Utah Project works. Their Virtual Library contains links to actual inclusion articles, books, resource guides, and on-line tutorials.

  • Lemoore High School and Inclusive Education: A California High School inclusion success story, and the strategies which contributed to the success of its inclusion program.

  • Michael Giangreco: Web site developed by Michael Giangreco, author of many inclusion-related books and programs. Dr. Giangreco is Research Associate Professor at The University of Vermont and assigned to the Center of Disability and Community Inclusion. His professional interests focus on how to plan, adapt, coordinate, implement, and evaluate educational programs and services for students with disabilities who are included in general education schools and classrooms.

  • Whole Schooling Consortium: Whole Schooling is a framework for school reform, advocating inclusion of all students in regular education classes, and restructuring of the use of supporting resources available through Title I and special education, curriculum reforms. This framework has been adopted by numerous schools in both Wisconsin and Michigan.

  • The Inclusion Network: Cincinnati, Ohio group that helps raise awareness of inclusion, recognizes exemplary inclusive efforts, provides technical assistance and links individuals with and without disabilities.

  • InclusionDaily Express: Commercial-free email "newspaper" that reports on the progress being made the movement toward self-determination, community inclusion, and rights of people who have developmental disabilities. It features advances and innovations in employment, assistive technology, community living, education, individualized funding, laws and relationships. Subscription required.

  • Sherman Consulting: Provides services and training to assist teachers, administrators and school districts to implement cost-effective, teacher-friendly, and innovative education strategies to meet the demands of special needs students in the regular classroom. Their bookstore contains "Books of the Month" on inclusion issues, and provides links to Amazon.com where the books can be purchased at a discount.

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Specific Issues in Inclusion:

  • Behavior Management:

    • Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: Center founded by the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Program; offers on-line information, videos, and other products for implementing positive behavior support plans.

    • Multimodal Functional Behavioral Assessment: This site describes a new process of conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment and writing a Behavior Intervention Plan that goes beyond the basics of antecedents and consequences by examining the whole child and his or her environment, including:
      • Child characteristics
        • Cognitive, Behavioral, Health, Other
      • Peer characteristics
      • Curriculum characteristics
      • Teacher characteristics
      • Classroom/school/district characteristics
      • Family/neighborhood/community characteristics
      • Documentation, case studies, and downloadable forms are available on-line.

    • Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Plans: About.com's overview of Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavior Plans; contains several useful links.

    • Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice: Functional Behavior Assessment: Extensive on-line tutorial on Functional Behavior Assessments, including how to conduct an assessment, how to create a positive behavioral intervention plan based on the assessment, and information on the relevant federal laws and regulations governing behavior issues.

    • Social Stories Seminar: On-line seminar about using social stories to help students learn to manage their own behavior.

  • Intellectual Disabilities:

    • Students with Intellectual Disabilities: A resource guide for teachers: This resource guide, prepared by the British Columbia Ministery of Education, contains practical suggestions for teachers working with included students with intellectual disabilities. Areas covered include:
      • the nature of intellectual disabilities
      • preparing to teach students and sources of support
      • involvement in the transitions and changes that will occur from K to 12 and beyond
      • tips for teachers covering a wide range of topics
      • case studies
      • resources and references

  • Learning Disabilities:

    • International Dyslexia Association: An international, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and treatment of dyslexia.

    • LD Online: A comprehensive and well respected Learning Disabilities resource page; also contains information on ADD and Central Auditory Processing Disorders, and assistive technology for learning disorders.

    • LD Resources: This excellent website was created by Richard Wanderman, a well-known educational technology consultant, presenter, and teacher who also has dyslexia.

    • Teens Helping Teens: A web page designed by dyslexic teens, with information for teens, teachers, and parents:
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  • Methods for teaching reading and writing to dyslexics:
    • Lindamood-Bell: Programs to develop the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading, spelling, language comprehension, math, and visual motor skills. Programs are for individuals ranging from severely learning disabled to academically gifted, ages 5 years through adult.
    • Orton-Gillingham: Language-based, multi sensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, and cognitively based.
    • Wilson Reading System: A twelve step reading and writing program which specifies a complete curriculum for teaching decoding and encoding (spelling) beginning with phoneme segmentation.
    • NLDline and NLDOnline: Resource sites for persons with NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disabilities), and their parents and teachers.
    • Learning Disabilities Association: A non-profit organization whose purpose is to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who have perceptual, conceptual, or coordination disabilities. Site contains fact sheets, resource listings, book recommendations, and journal articles.

  • Science and Math Inclusion:

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Teacher Resources:

    • Writing Den: WritingDEN features weekly topics on its home page. Each topic is presented at three different levels of English language difficulty: words, sentences, and paragraphs.

    • Purdue University's On-line Writing Lab (OWL): Excellent source for handouts for students and teachers about general writing concerns (the writing process), English as a Second Language (such as writing for an American audience and help with English conventions) , grammar, spelling, and punctuation, research and documenting sources (including MLA and APA styles), professional writing (such as resumes and cover letters), and writing across the curriculum (incorporating writing into a variety of disciplines.)

    • HyperGrammar: An electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre. This package is designed to allow users a great deal of freedom and creativity as they read about grammar. In addition to the traditional hypertext navigational links (``up'', ``next'' ``previous'', ``home'', etc.) HyperGrammar allows users to create and follow their own lines of thought. On its first appearance on any page, every grammatical term is linked to its definition. A user reading about nouns might jump to the simple subject, and from there to subordinate clauses -- users are not required or even encouraged to use this material in order.

    • Cyber Reference Desk: On-line aids for composing and revising written assignments: dictionaries, thesauruses, grammar and style guides, etc.

    • Fake Out: The Definition Guessing Game: On-line version of the games Balderdash and Fictionary. Students compete to make up fake but plausible definitions to unusual words, and try to guess which definitions are real.

    • Wacky Web Tales: "MadLibs" on-line; a fun way to teach parts of speech.

    • The Discovery Channel's DiscoverySchool.com: includes many free resources: school-related clip-art, customizable quizzes and word puzzles, dictionaries, and glossary builders.

  • Math/Sciences:

    • The Exploriatorium: San Francisco museum of science, art, and human perception.

    • Neuroscience for Kids: A web site created by Dr. Eric Chudler of the University of Washington; provides activities and experiments for learning more about the brain and spinal cord.

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