These excerpts from ETFO’s excellent special education handbook examine specific areas of student needs and strategies for assisting students with those needs.
ETFO’s Special Education Handbook
Education for All Expert Panel Special Education Needs Grade K-6 (2005)
The report of the Ontario Expert Panel on Literacy and Numeracy Instruction for Students with Special Needs in Grades Kindergarten to Six. This comprehensive document recommends practices, based on research, that would allow Ontario’s teachers to improve and reinforce effective instruction of reading, writing, oral communication, and mathematics to students who have special education needs.
Education for All Expert Panel Special Education Needs Grade K-6
Including Students with Exceptionalities
This document explores the issues related to the inclusion of students with exceptionalities in the regular classroom setting.
OCUP Special Education Companion (2002)
This document is a companion piece to the now defunct Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner. It has a great deal of information regarding identification and placement, IEPs, accommodations and modifications, teaching strategies, specific skill strategies, and assessment.
The Educational Implications of ADHD
This article examines research into treatment outcomes, and teaching practices that work with students who have ADHD.
The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
Since 1963, the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has provided understanding and support to people with learning disabilities, their parents, teachers and other professionals. This site contains a great deal of useful information for educators.
Resources in Special Education
This is a large collection of online special education resources gathered by Michigan State University.
Substituting in the Special Education Classroom
This article is from the Sub Journal, a publication of the Substitute Teaching Division of Utah State University contains valuable information for OTs who are called to work in a special education classroom.
Substituting in the Special Education Classroom
PBS: Misunderstood Minds
This American site is a companion to the PBS special Misunderstood Minds, and profiles a variety of learning problems and expert opinions. It is designed to give parents and teachers a better understanding of learning processes, insights into difficulties, and strategies for responding.
Teacher’s Gateway to Special Education
Developed by OTF, with funding from the Ministry of Education, the Teacher’s Gateway to Special Education provides specific strategies and resources to help teachers address the unique needs of students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Well organized and extremely user friendly, the Teachers’ Gateway to Special Education includes links to board special education plans, Ministry documents and other helpful resources. The Gateway also includes definitions of key special education terms, and can be used as a practical guide for teachers building Individual Education Plans (IEPs).