Week 6 Task #1 learning resources for learning disabilities

1. IXL Worldwide

Aligned with Common Core Standards, IXL Worldwide is a dynamic, immersive website offering adaptive learning for students with disabilities. From Pre-K through senior year, IXL will provide fun exercises for mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies. Children remain motivated by earning awards like stickers and balloon animals for each lesson mastered. This site will help with my students because it tracks thier work and the students will be able to be corrected.  Not one student is at the same level.  Students have students operating anywhere from a pre-K level to a sixth or seventh-grade level, depending on the subject.  After implementing a one-to-one tablet program  students, teacher can see this as an opportunity to look for digital resources that could help differentiate instruction for all of students and automate some of the required assessment, grading, and tracking. After some research, she discovered IXL.

2. AAA Math

Children diagnosed with dyscalculia will particularly benefit from AAA Math, a website filled with free, easy-to-understand K-8 mathematics lessons. Interactive pages help remove frustration from tough concepts like division, ratios, exponents, and graphing. Practice questions and fun games like Countdown give students’ instant feedback to prevent learning incorrect methods. Separated by Grade: By separating the lessons by grade level, teachers are able sort through the links easier and also find the ones that are applicable to what lesson they are teaching. Separated by Subject Area: This feature is helpful because you can find the content area easily. Each general topic is then broken down into more specific areas. For example, under the fractions link, you can then sort by a more specific area to practice, like adding or subtracting. Spanish Version: Because the website can be changed into Spanish, students that have difficulty with or do not speak English can still be able to use on the website as a resource. Math is the universal to all countries and cultures, so the website is able to spread across more students

3. Do2Learn

Attracting over 11 million views monthly, Do2Learn is an unparalleled special needs resource website started in 1996 through a NIH Small Business Innovation Research grant. Learning disabled youth access thousands of free elementary-level worksheets for literacy, math, visual discrimination, behavior management, and more. There are also printable picture cards available to promote functional communication in children with Autism.   Some highlights that Do2Lean offer for sudents 

• Use short and simple sentences to ensure understanding.
• Repeat instructions or directions frequently.
• Ask student if further clarification is necessary.
• Keep distractions and transitions to a minimum.
• Teach specific skills whenever necessary.
• Provide an encouraging and supportive learning environment.
• Use alternative instructional strategies and alternative assessment methods.
• Explicitly teach organizational skills.
• Keep conversations as normal as possible for inclusion with peers.
• Teach the difference between literal and figurative language.
• Direct student’s attention to critical differences when teaching concepts.
• Remove distractions that may keep student from attending.
• Increase difficulty of tasks over time.
• Teach student decision-making rules for discriminating important from unimportant details.