Online Resources for Learning Disabilities (Week 6)
IXL Worldwide is a diverse website
that provides personalized learning to aid students with learning disabilities
will unique needs. It provides exercises and activities across all grade
levels, Pre-K to senior year, and all subject areas. In addition, it is also aligned
with the Common Core Standards. Some of the features besides it’s comprehensive
curriculum is continuous diagnostic, personalized guidance, and real-time
insights which help to make instructional decisions. This is a website that can
be used both inside and outside the classroom and could potentially be a great
aid for students with disabilities to get more practice with the content.
2.
Storyline Online (https://www.storylineonline.net/)
Storyline Online is a website that
offers videos of narrators reading books aloud. This resource is particularly
useful for students with learning disabilities that affect their reading
skills, such as dyslexia. This is a great resource to help children develop
their literacy skills, as they are able to follow along with the narrators in
their own hard copy of the book. This is another website that can be used both
inside and outside of the classroom and can help to improve reading, writing,
and communication skills.
3.
National Center for Learning
Disabilities (https://www.ncld.org/)
This
is a great, comprehensive website about learning disabilities for children,
parents, and educators. The NCLD’s mission is to improve the lives of children
and adults nationwide with learning/attention issues. The website has an
abundance of different resources that can be accessed. This includes an online
community for young adults with learning disabilities, tools and tips for
educators to increase literacy skills in children at a young age, and a variety
of articles related to students with learning disabilities. This provides a lot
of information that would be useful in the classroom, for both the teacher and
the students.
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