Back to School: Articles of Interest

RESOURCES FROM NICHCY!

NICHCY's disability in your classroom blog series.

Looking for practical tips that you can use? NICHCY authors a series of specific disability blogs full of great tips and resources. Also explore their blog page, which features information and perspectives related to serving students with disabilities in schools.

 http://nichcy.org/blog

Back-to-school tips for parents of children with special needs.

Reading Rockets offers back-to-school tips for parents emphasizing communication, organization, and staying up-to-date on special education news.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/38405/

Help children transition from one activity to another, and one place to another.

From the Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children (TACSEI), Thoughtful Transitions Reduce Traffic Jams and Challenges gives tools and strategies to use when teaching children how to transition between activities and places within the early childhood environment.
http://www.challengingbehavior.org/communities/make_n_take/make_n_take_home.html

Teaching tools based on brain facts.

Looking for some strategies to better engage students and pique their interests? Brainfact.org has a collection of multimedia resources to develop engaging and interactive lessons.

http://www.brainfacts.org/educators/

Adventures in an autism classroom: On the value of token economies.

Token Economy Systems work for ALL types of students, no matter what their academic or communication level! Here is one example of how this system can be used.

http://classroominthecorner.blogspot.com/