TTC Course Resources
Special Needs Learning in the International School
Web Resources
Learning and the Brain
Provides information for conferences and news and events related to brain research and learning.
www.learningandthebrain.com/
Discovery Education’s resource for educators including video streaming, curricular resources, professional development and assessment pieces.
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/
Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute is an internationally recognized facility dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with pediatric developmental disabilities through patient care, special education, research, and professional training. The website describes diagnosed disorders and definitions, symptoms, research and available treatment programs.
www.kennedykrieger.org/
Dr. Adele Diamond, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, the University of British Columbia.
There is a section on useful information for links dealing with special needs and links to help teachers and parents gain access and information.
www.devcogneuro.com/
Brain Gym® International is committed to the principle that moving with intention leads to optimal learning.
www.braingym.org/
Bam!radio – the voice of the education community
BAM! is an acronym for "body and mind." BAM! Radio was conceived in 2007 on the premise that the key to success in life for children and youth is nurturing a healthy mind in a healthy body, and that the two are connected. So to put children on the right track it's critical to nurture both. The website offers information for parents, teachers and directors.
www.bamradionetwork.com/
Tools of the Mind – A Focus on Self Regulation
Metropolitan State College of Denver
www.mscd.edu/extendedcampus/toolsofthemind/
Answers to your Questions about ADD (ADHD)
Dr. Patricia O. Quinn, Developmental Pediatrician specializing in ADD and ADHD with a special emphasis in females.
www.addvance.com/
Professor Daniel Willingham
Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
His work on education; radio.tv podcasts, videos, articles, and his recent book, Why Students Don’t Like School are listed.
www.danielwillingham.com/index.html
Dr. Edward L. Deci, the University of Rochester
This site provides information regarding Self-Determination Theory (SDT). This is a theory of motivation. It is concerned with supporting our natural or intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective and healthy ways.
www.selfdeterminationtheory.org
Johns Hopkins University School of Education. This is an instructional model based on the tenets of research-based effective instruction of the arts into content at all grade levels.
www.braintargetedteaching.org/
Response to intervention integrates assessment and intervention within a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness, and identify students with learning disabilities or other disabilities.
www.rti4success.org/
The Responsive Classroom is an approach to elementary teaching that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. The goal is to enable optimal student learning.
www.responsiveclassroom.org/
A web site with information and inspiration for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities.
www.ricklavoie.com/
Web site explaining the Arrowsmith School in Toronto, founded by Barbara Arrowsmith Young, one of the people whose case study was explored in The Brain that Changes Itself. The Arrowsmith Program is founded on neuroscience research and 30 years of experience demonstrating that it is possible for students to strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying their learning dysfunctions through a program of specific cognitive exercises.
http://www.arrowsmithschool.org/
Specific Areas of Focus
Attention
Tips for parents & teachers when talking with children with attention issues – developmentally categorized
www.ldonline.org/article/5991
Strategies for addressing ADHD
www.ldonline.org/article/Strategies_for_Teaching_Youth_with_ADD_and_ADHD
Autism
Educational Leadership - October 2010 | Volume 68 | Number 2 Interventions That Work, Pages 40-45
Faces of Autism - Pamela Hudson Baker, Mary Murray, Carolyn Murray-Slutsky and Betty Paris
Auditory Processing
Understanding Auditory Processing Disorders in Children – Teri J. Bellis
www.asha.org/public/hearing/disorders/understand-apd-child.htm
Dyslexia
Dyslexia Teacher
www.dyslexia-teacher.com
International Dyslexia Association
www.interdys.org
Get Ready To Read
www.GetReadytoRead.org
Scientific Learning (products for dyslexia)
www.scilearnglobal.com
Dyscalculia
www.dyscalculia.org
Learning Disabilities: General Websites
LD Online
www.ldonline.org
Council for Exceptional Children
www.cec.sped.org
National Center for Learning Disabilities
www.ncld.org
Teaching LD
www.teachingld.org
Council for Learning Disabilities
www.cldinternational.org
Mental and Emotional Health
Help Guide
www.helpguide.org
Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
www.nldline.com
Science and Math
West Virginia University: Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Inclusion Project
www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/
Visual Processing Disorder
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB): National Literacy Center
www.afb.org
Print Resources
How the Special Needs Brain Learns 2nd Edition – David A. Sousa
Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom – Susan Winebrenner
Energizers - 88 Quick Movement Activities That Refresh and Refocus, K–6 - 2009, Northeast Foundation for Children
Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities – L.C. Martin
Mindset, the New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck, PH.D
The Brain that Changes Itself – Norman Doidge, MD
The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction – Robert Marzano
Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation – Mary-Dean Barringer, Craig Pohlman, Michele Robinson and Paul Orfalea
Is it a Big Problem or a Little Problem? When to Worry, When Not to Worry and What to Do – Egan, Freedman, Greenberg, Anderson