Learning Disability Links
- www.ldonline.com
This website is an interactive guide to learning disabilities. They have discussion boards, links, and
many other helpful resources. This
website is designed for children, parents, and teachers to help facilitate
a learning environment for these students.
- http://studentswholearn.fawco.org
The information on this website was compiled from studies by the
Educational Support Committee of the Federation of American Women’s Clubs
Overseas. These women were living
overseas and had to find adequate accommodations for their children to
learn because they were in a non-English speaking country. “Students Who Learn Differently” is an
attempt to help fill that void by researching accommodations, rights, and
resources that should be made available to our learning differently
students, parents, and their educators.
- www.add-adhd.org
This website offers educational information for those diagnosed with
ADD-ADHD or for those parents of children with these disabilities. Also the website has other special
related services linked to it as well.
It offers advice and support through discussion boards, and has
links to gadgets and software that will help the person diagnosed with the
disability.
- www.cast.org This
website was created by the Center for Applied Special Technologies. They are dedicated to the “creation of
computer software and learning models that are useable by everyone.”
- www.inspiration.com
This website is for children with organizational difficulties. K-3 should use Kidspiration while
older students should use Inspiration.
Your LD student could be bursting with creative thought and
have no idea how to put it into words, which leaves them feeling
frustrated and disappointed. This
program an help these children by giving kids a fun way to capture their
ideas as they brainstorm, by arranging their ideas in graphic
organizers. With one mouse click
they can transform the ideas in their graphic organizers into outline
form.