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**This page contains links to lesson plans and resources for students with disabilities, particularly those receiving special education. It also contains lesson plans about individuals with disabilities [|(Helen Keller] or [|FDR,] for instance). Resources for students who are [|gifted, talented, and/or creative] have been moved to a separate page but can still be accessed from the [|site index.] Last updated 5-11-10. ** || ||
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Custom Search **Special Education Lesson Plans [|Special Education] Lesson plans from the Awesome Library.

[|Mark Sheehan's Lesson Plans Page] Site contains fourteen lesson plans for the elementary grades with "modifications for special needs."

[|Art for Children and Adults with Special Needs] More than 20 lesson ideas.** **[|Kodak Special Education Lesson Plans] Lesson plans using photography.** **[|Teachnology Special Education Lesson Plans] Links to many special education lesson plans.** **[|Special Education Lesson Plans] Several short lesson plans and activities. You'll have to scroll down the page to find them all.** **[|TeachNet Special Education] Twenty-two lesson plans, activities, projects, and resources.

[|Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) in Writing: Story and Opinion Writing for Students with Disabilities] This site from the University of Maryland provides information about SRSD as well as [|lesson plans] for implementing it.** **[|Learning Abilities Books] Lesson plans, resources, and books for pre-k through grade 5 regular and special education.

[|Mrs Donn's ADD/ADHD & Special Needs] Lesson plans and units from my friend Mrs. Donn.**

**[|Celebrations Around the World] A multicultural, thematic unit for students with severe disabilities.** **[|Monster Fun: Learning the Five Senses] Though this K-3 lesson is not necessarily designed for special education students, it could be easily adapted to meet their needs.** **[|Centigrade and Fahrenheit: What's the Difference?] A multi-level, cooperative learning lesson plan for fifth-grade science/math. It is designed to accommodate the needs of learners with varying abilities.** **[|Water, Weather, and the World] A unit developed for students with severe intellectual disabilities and limited language abilities.** **[|Ocean Animals] A lesson plan for grades K-2 that would also be appropriate for special education students.** **[|Bits of Braille] A Braille study lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades.** **[|Friendship and Stories] This excellent site from [|LD Online] provides information and a sample lesson plan for using children's literature to teach friendship skills to children with learning disabilities.** **[|Using Collaborative Strategic Reading] A primer from [|LD Online] on the use of this strategy for teaching reading to students with learning disabilities. See also [|Improving Comprehension for Students with LD] and [|Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines.]** **[|Sign the Alphabet] An on-line activity from [|Funbrain.com.]** **[|Real Estate Project] A unit for special education students in grades 6-8.

[|Using Poetry in Teaching Reading to Special Education Students] A unit intended for middle school students with linited reading skills. ** **[|Kennedy Years Unit] An eighth-grade unit from [|Core Knowledge] adapted for inclusion of special education students. For other units from this source, see** **[|Core Connections: Connecting Core Knowledge Between Special Education and Regular Education] (Grade 4),** **[|Geography in the Resource Classroom: Using Maps to Understand the Impact of the Meso-American Civilization and European Explorers] (Grade 5), [|Don't Take It Literally] (Grade 6), [|News to the Core] (Grade 6), and [|The Amazing Journey of the Butterfly] (Grade 2).** **[|Teaching Volleyball to Students with Diverse Physical Abilities] A high school PE lesson plan.** **[|The Constitution, Juvenile Justice, and You] A lesson plan developed for Special Education Students in grades 9-12.**   Lesson Plans about People with Disabilities [|Speaking and Writing About People with Disabilities] Ideas and a worksheet I use for teaching about appropriate language (including people-first language) for speaking and writing about individuals with disabilities. ** [|Teaching about Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Retardation: Ideas for Classroom Activities] Two activities, complete with handouts, that I use in my Exceptional Learners class (Education 105) to teach college students (mostly first-year) about mental retardation. I believe the activities would also be appropriate for use at the high school level, perhaps in a psychology class.** **[|Getting to Know Your Classmates with Special Needs] Though this lesson was developed in 1992 and does not use people-first language, it includes many good ideas for teaching elementary students about disabilities.

[|Myths and Misconceptions] A sample lesson plan from the [|"Yes I Can" Curriculum] in which students identify common myths and misconceptions about people with disabilities.** **[|Be Good to Eddie Lee] This lesson plan for 1st or 2nd grade titled "Dealing with Differences" uses Virginia Fleming's //Be Good to Eddie Lee// to help teach tolerance of students with disabilities. It is part of a unit titled "[| Differences: Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature."] [|Click here] for reviews of this book as well as ordering information.

[|Helen Keller (Famous Person)] There are many lesson plans and units about [|Helen Keller] available on the Internet, including this one for middle-grade students titled Famous Person: Helen Keller, which uses Keller's book, //The Story of My Life//. For other lessons, see [|Helen Keller] (grades 2-4), [|Writing a Biography - Helen Keller] (middle school), and [|Helen Keller Lesson Plans] (homeschool). For an interesting lesson plan on Braille meant to be used in a unit on Helen Keller, see [|Bits of Braille]. For a secondary thematic unit using Gibson's //The Miracle Worker// and other plays, see [|Inspirational Voices Unit.] [|Click here] to find links to sites with information about Keller, blindness, and deafness.

[|Franklin Delano Roosevelt] There are many lesson plans and units about FDR, including the secondary lesson linked above titled [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Disability: Was He Successful in Concealing It?] However, only that lesson and one other titled [|Debating the FDR Memorial,] a web-based high school lesson plan, examine the issue of Roosevelt's disability. Other units and lessons available online include [|The Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1933-1945,] [|The Foreign Policy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U. S. Entry Into World War II,] [|Documents Related to Churchill and FDR,] [|FDR's Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program,] [|A Date which Will Live in Infamy,] and [|FDR's First Inaugural Address.] There are also some excellent lessons that use the [|FDR cartoons,] including the [|FDR Portfolio Project] (11th-grade AP history). None of these, however, examine FDR's disability.** **[|The Polio History Pages] No unit on the the history of disabilities or disease would be complete without some mention of polio, the near hysteria caused by the epidemics of the early 1950s, and the euphoria that greeted the development of the Salk vaccine. Drawing from my book, // [|Polio's Legacy: An Oral History,] //this site provides excerpts from polio narratives, a polio timeline, and information about the disease, its history, and late effects.** **[|A Polio History Quest] A set of 25 questions, complete with a printable worksheet, coinciding with the information provided within the Polio History Pages. It should be appropriate for use with grades 5 and up. See also [|Understanding Viruses] (grades 9-12). ** **Resources for Inclusion: [|Keys to Sussessful Inclusion] From Teacher Vision.** **[|SERI Inclusion Resources] An annotated list of links.** **[|Special Education Inclusion] An article from the [|Wisconsin Education Association.Council.]** **[|Inclusion.com] The index page for Inclusion Press, Inclusion Network, and Marsha Forest Centre (Canada).

[|Inclusion] Several articles and resources from Education World.  ADD/ADHD [|Diagnosis ADDADHD: Now What?] "Strategies that work" for parents teachers and para-professionals. ** **[|Helping Children with ADD Focus in the Classroom] An article from [|Lesson Tutor.] ** **[|Identifying ADHD in the Classroom and Strategies for Helping Students Learn] A Power Point presentation. ** **[|one ADD Place] Many resources relating to ADD/ADHD and SLDs. ** **[|The ADHD Owner's Manual]

Blind/Visually Impaired [|Bits of Braille] A Braille study lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades. ** **[|Braille on the Internet] Links to information about braille, its history, and its inventor, Louis Braille, from the [|Blindness Resourrce Center.] ** **[|American Foundation for the Blind] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired]

Chronic Health Impairments [|Chronic Illness, Children, Health Education] A site designed to help people understand what it's like to go to grow up with chronic medical problems, from the perspective of the children and teens who are doing just that.

[|Children and Chronic Illness] Treatment resources for children with chronic illness.

[|Yahoo Directory: Diseases and Conditions]

[|The Center for Research on Chronic Illness]

Deaf/Hearing Impaired [|National Association of the Deaf] Excellent source of information. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|The Deaf Resource Library] An online collection of reference materials and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Resources for Learning and Teaching American Sign Language [|A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms] A dictionary with both animated and text definitions. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Sign Language Dictionaries Online] Links to manu online dictionaries. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|American Sign Language Links] Many links. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Sign the Alphabet] An on-line activity from [|Funbrain.com.] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|American Sign Language Teachers Association] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|American Sign Language Fonts] Download sign language fonts.

Emotional/Behavior Disorders [|National Alliance for the Mentally Ill] A very good source for information on mental illness/ebd. [|Click here] for information on disorders affecting children and adolescents. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|The Schizophrenia Home Page] Information and resources regarding schizophrenia.

[|ADAA Homepage] Excellent site for information on anxiety disorders.

[|ConductDisorders.com] A site for parents <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">who are raising challenging children. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Illinois' Voice on Mental Illness: Families Helping Families] Information and links to educate family members about mental illness. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Council for Children with Behavior Disorders] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Specific Learning Disabilities [|Learning Disabilities Association] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|LD Online] A terrific resource packed with information

[|A Guide to Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom Practition][|er]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">

[|Language Education and Learning Disabilities] Information and links. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|National Center for Learning Disabilities]

Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disabilities [|Teaching about Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Retardation: Ideas for Classroom Activities] Two activities, complete with handouts, that I use in my Exceptional Learners class (Education 105) to teach college students (mostly first-year) about mental retardation. I believe the activities would also be appropriate for use at the high school level, perhaps in a psychology class. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Water, Weather, and the World] A unit developed for students with severe mental retardation and limited language abilities. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Mental Retardation: A Symptom and a Syndrome] Another well-written book chapter. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Resources on the History of Idiocy] Online articles and links. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Genetic Causes of Mental Retardation] A concise and highly-readable article. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Down Syndrome: Health Issues] An excellent resource. If you are doing a report on DS, be sure to see [|Doing a High School or College Report on Down Syndrome?] See also [|The Down Syndrome WWW Page] and [|UPSIDE!] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (formerly AAMR)] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|The ARC in the United States] ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">Disability History [|Disability Social History Project] An excellent page with many resources for those wishing to learn about disability history. See also [|A Chronology of the Disability Rights Movement.]

[|The Polio History Pages] No unit on the the history of disabilities or disease would be complete without some mention of polio, the near hysteria caused by the epidemics of the early 1950s, and the euphoria that greeted the development of the Salk vaccine. Drawing from my book, // [|Polio's Legacy: An Oral History] //, this site provides excerpts from polio narratives, a polio timeline, and information about the disease, its history, and late effects ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Resources on the History of Idiocy] Online articles and links. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">[|Definitions of Intellectual Disability/Mental Retardation] A chronological list with dates and references. ** **<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times;">E-mail me if you would like help in locating the resources you need. Also, please let me know if you find a link on this site that no longer functions. My name is Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D. You can reach me at esass@csbsju.edu **
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