Special+Needs

Special Needs sites: http://www.dotolearn.com/- This site is an educational site for special needs teachers. It hosts a variety of fun, interactive games, tools and links to helpful items for the low ability, or educational needs kids.

ATTENTION NEEDS: You need to go to this page and try the activities at the top of the page. I promise you you will get a better understanding of what it is like to learn with add or adhd. The activities come up with a small section of writing you have to read or process for a short quiz at the end. However, there are distractions which take your mind off of the task at hand no matter how hard you try to process it. I was almost in tears when I finished because now I understand not only my student, but also my son a lot better. I see how these kids are trying to deal with this information coming in while battling to sort through the problems they have with focus. Take these tests!!!!!!!!!!

Reading Understanding Again take these activity quizzes to better understand the issues these kids have and the problems they face. I never truly understood these problems like I do now, because I have been reading since the age of four. However, reading is not something that comes automatically and there are problems that get into the way. Take this quiz and see just a small sample of the problems kids face.

Writing Understanding Get the understanding behind writing issues by completing these tasks at the top of this linked page.

Mathematics Understanding - Use the activities at the top of the linked page to connect with your students and their difficulty and frustration in math. The first exercise offers this explanation: "This exercise was intended to make you feel like you did when you first started studying math. Remember when you weren't sure what 2 x 6 equaled -- how slowly and methodically you had to work? What if you were a senior in high school and you still didn't know your basic math facts? How difficult would it be to correctly answer a complex word problem or to find the sum of three angles? "

Intervention Central - Amazing resource for teachers and parents to understand IEP's, and find lessons which can help reach kids of all levels.