Special education remote resources

Key remote resources

• The Educating All Learners Alliance, a new partnership of over thirty disability, advocacy and professional groups, has created a hub of curated tools, strategies, tips and best practices for supporting students with disabilities online.
• Academic Supports for Students with Disabilities tackles the central question of how schools can intervene during and after remote/hybrid learning to reduce the learning gaps between students with disabilities and their peers. 
• Curious about how to adapt behavior supports for a remote environment? Check out the tool for creating a Positive Behavior Interventions and Services (PBIS) behavior teaching matrix for remote instruction, and tips for addressing executive functioning issues in a remote environment. 
• Learn what other districts across the country are doing during periods of school closure and find out what parents have to say about providing a remote learning experience.

Discipline-specific resources

Autism
ASD Nest Support Project at NYU Steinhardt
Remote learning resources for teachers of students with autism

Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules
Supporting individuals with autism through uncertain times

Edutopia
Helping autistic students navigate a turbulent school year

Cognitive disabilities
TIES Center
Supports for students with significant cognitive disabilities

Learning disabilities
Digital Promise
Resources and products to support learners with disabilities during distance learning

National Center for Learning Disabilities - NEW
Distance learning toolkit

Hearing loss
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Materials to support children who are deaf or hard of hearing

Occupational therapists
American Occupational Therapy Association
Occupational therapy in the age of coronavirus

Edutopia
Occupational Therapy Shifts From Tactile to Digital

Physical therapists
American Physical Therapy Association
Coronavirus resources for the physical therapy profession

School counselors
American School Counselor Association
School counseling in an online world

School nurses
National Association of School Nurses
COVID-19 reference to assist school nurses

School psychologists
National Association of School Psychologists
COVID-19 resource center to support the learning and well being of students

Speech therapists
Understood.org
Providing and preparing for speech teletherapy

Visual impairments
Paths to Literacy
Getting started with a struggling reader with visual impairments

Additional remote materials

• Actively Learn
  Features online curriculum with scaffolds/free for the rest of the year
• BookShare 
  For students with barriers to reading/free access for remote learning
• Council for Exceptional Children
  Resources for teaching remotely, including links & webinars
• Do2Learn
  Free social skills and behavioral regulation activities
• EmotionalABCs
  Social-emotional learning resources for grades K-3
• Google Chrome Extensions for Students with Special Needs
  Help with text-to-speech, readability, comprehension and focus 
• Headsprout
  Reading resource for grades K-5/free for rest of school year
• Intervention Central
  Clearinghouse for free RTI materials
• IXL.com
  Full curriculum with diagnostics and personalized learning
• Meadows Center research brief
  Online learning: benefits and barriers
• National Center on Intensive Intervention
  Educator page featuring videos and teaching modules
• Newsela
  Leveled reading resources/free for rest of school year
• New York Public Library Free Tutoring
  Offering live tutoring & homework help 
• Scaffolded Math & Science
  Teacher-created resource (with YouTube instructional videos)
• USDOE's Teacher Digital Learning Guide - NEW
  Resources and recommendations to support digital learning
• UFT's Students With Disabilities Resources
  Online materials and sites for literacy-building and other activities