Special Education

(with thanks to Jeanne Ott! ~ updated September 2009)

General Information about Speech and Language Development and Disorders plus links to other websites with more specific information:

Speech Language:
American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
www.asha.org

Maine Speech-Language Hearing Association (MSLHA)
www.mslha.org

Speech and Language Development
Links to other sites about communication development
www.asha.org/public/speech/development

Information about Speech and Language Disorders
Definition, incidence, characteristics, educational implications
www.kidsource.com/NICHCY/speech.html

Speech and Language Disorders
Links to other sites about specific speech disorders
www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders

Speech and Language Disorders
Links to information on Communication Disorders
www.mnsu.edu/dept/comdis/kuster2/splang.html

Speech, Language, and Swallowing
ASHA introductory site for the public
www.asha.org/public

An Australian site with lots of information for parents and professionals
www.members.tripod.com/caroline_bowen/slp-eureka.htm

Articulation:
Questions and Answers About Articulation Problems
www.kidsource.com/ASHA/articulation.html

Language:
Questions and Answers About Child Language
www.kidsource.com/ASHA/child_language.html

Hearing and Hearing Disorders (including Deafness):
Alexander Graham Bell Organization
Information on deafness/hearing impairment
www.agbell.org

Hearing Loss

Causes of hearing loss in children

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/causes.htm

Information on the causes and effects of hearing loss in both children and adults.

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/

Treatment and Rehabilitation for hearing loss

Information about hearing aids, cochlear implants, assistive listening devices, and other options for hearing rehabilitation.

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/treatment/

Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)

Information on APD, also referred to as Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/understand-apd-child.htm

Stuttering:
National Stuttering Association
www.nsastutter.org

Stuttering Home Page
Links to LOTS of information on stuttering
www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster

Voice:
Common Voice Disorders
www.pitt.edu/~crosen/voice/voice.html

Voice Disorders in Children

Information from Children‚s Hospital in Boston

http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site2144/mainpageS2144P4.html

Cleft Lip and Palate

Information for parents, kids and teens

http://kidshealth.org/parent/medical/ears/cleft_lip_palate.html

Here are some helpful sites for summer (or anytime) practice.  Most are FREE, but some have associated cost$.

*email kelley if you have sites to add

Eclectic

• Brain Pop
  
• Brain Pop Junior
• Kids Know It
• Do 2 Learn
• Kids National Geographic
• FunBrain to GO
  

• Grammar Gorilla
• Read Between the Lions
• Make a Story
• Read a Rhyme
• Visual Thesaurus
• Star Fall
• Reading A to Z-- $$$
  

• Power Typing
• Learn 2 Type
  

• Place Value Puzzler
• Identifying Place Values
• Addition or Multiplication Baseball

• Free Rice Vocabulary Building
• National Geographic GeoQuiz
• Find a Book

for Kids

• Great Websites for Kids

for Everyone

• Life Success for Children with Learning Disabilities (Frostig Center Reports for Parents and Teachers)
• Strategies for Helping Students
  
  • Struggling with Emotional Behavioral Issues
  • Struggling Readers
  • Struggling Writers
  • Struggling Mathematicians
• Subtest Descriptions WISC and WAIS
• Subtest Descriptions Woodcock Johnson Cognitive
• Subtest Descriptions Woodcock Johnson Achievement

• Speech and Language Resource Links

• Union 98 Assessment Information
• Union 98 Assessment Standards Grades K-8 (link)
  
  • DRA Proficiency Standards
  • NWEA Proficiency Standards
  • Writing Prompt Trait Proficiency Standards
• *NWEA Placement Guidelines 2005 (download)
• *NWEA Norm Data- Monitoring Student Growth (download)
• *NWEA Lexile Link (download)
• *NWEA Allowable Accommodations
• *Union 98 Assessment Tools (link)
• Build your own Curriculum Based Assessment/ Probe

• ADHD Document from the National Institute of Mental Health
• Differentiating Instruction
• Lexile Framework
• Intervention Central
• Making Sense of Data 
  • Chart Dog
  • Graphing
• Reading Research:  Supplemental and Intervention Programs
• Great Leaps
• UConn Reading Enrichment Teacher Resources

• Parenting Magazine
• Maine Parent Federation