Parent Resources
Council for Exceptional Children
The Council for Exceptional Children provides information and resources about Special Education.
Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities
Smart Kids with LDs is an excellent and resourceful website for parents with children who have dyslexia, are ADHD, or have other learning disabilities. The site focuses on empowering parents with knowledge and a strong supportive community. It also has a section on success stories for those that may be feeling overwhelmed.
Support for Families of Children with Disabilities has been around for a long time, since 1982, offering information to parents with multiple disabilities in children.
Student Resources
Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills.
Storyline Online is an excellent resource for children with learning disabilities such as dyslexia. This website records free videos of narrators, and sometimes well-known actors reading children’s books aloud. Students develop their literacy skills by following along with text as the literature comes alive.
This website provides engaging reading comprehension activities in English and Spanish. Elementary children with learning disabilities will benefit from dissecting books, such as The Wolf Who Cried Boy and A Pirate’s Life. Short, 15-minute videos are included to teach important reading strategies like visualization and summarizing.
Arcademic Skill Builders is an online educational video games resource. Free, multi-player games are available for engaging students in tricky K-6 content from spelling to algebra and geography. Children with learning disabilities can compete for top scores while boosting their fact fluency.
Teacher Resources
This well-established resource has provided free educational resources from kindergarten to college level classes. With a focus on math, science, and computing, numerous videos provide direct instruction to facilitate understanding of each topic.
i-Ready is an interactive online learning environment designed to assess students and provide individualized instruction based on each one's unique needs.