Online Learning Resources

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Accessible Educational Materials offers resources to support students that need accessible materials and technologies while learning remotely.

Accessibyte offering their entire cloud platform of apps designed for children with visual impairments free for 45 days. The apps include things like arcade games and flash cards.

Audible Stories is offering free access to educational and entertaining audiobook content. Anyone, in any country, can enjoy unlimited streaming of hundreds of titles for kids and families for free with selections available in six languages.

The National Helen Keller Center is offering Free Online Modules on topics related to supporting individuals who have dual sensory impairments. Modules can be accessed at https://www.helenkeller.org/hknc/available-classes. Free access is only through May 31, 2020. If interested, contact Tara Brown-Ogilvie, Regional Helen Keller Representative, at tara.brown-ogilvie@hknc.org for free access code.

COVID-19 Live Course Series
ATIA Learning Center is offering a series of free online courses and other resources you can use to learn relevant information and insight from your peers. The courses are presented by your AT community and are free for anyone and everyone. Each course will be recorded for you to access at any time. Below is a list of upcoming courses.

• Carefully Curating Apps and Software for Young Children-Managing Increased Screen Time
  Tuesday, April 7 at 12:00pm CDT/1:00pm EDT
• Supporting Remote Learning with Microsoft Learning Tools
  Thursday, April 9 at 11:00am CDT/12:00pm EDT
• Recording Online Content
  Thursday, April 9 at 1:00pm CDT/2:00pm EDT
• Supporting Students and Employees with Dyslexia at Home
  Tuesday, April 14 at 11:00am CDT/12:00pm EDT
• AAC Language Lab Implementation Strategies
  Wednesday, April 15 at 11:00am CDT/12:00pm EDT

Bingo Home Activity is a BINGO activity for families of younger students and students with multiple disabilities. It was designed by a LS teacher at the Ohio State School and made available on the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired website.

Short Videos for Children with Cortical Visual Impairments
Alissa DeSousa has created CVI-friendly videos for children with cortical visual impairment using bubble words, solid black backgrounds with reduced visual complexity, movement, and other adaptations of familiar songs and stories. The following are some examples of videos available.



Distance Learning Resources for Special Education Resources on this site are provided by educators and families from around the world. Materials are open source and may be adapted to fit your child or student's need. They may not be used for purchase.

IRIS Center offers a simple module for parents supporting learning through Covid-19.

Keeping Accessibility in Mind During the COVID-19 Conversion of Courses
In a WCET Frontiers blog post, Cyndi Rowland, Executive Director of WebAIM at Utah State, discusses the importance of making web content accessibility to people with disabilities and provides resources for getting started.

NY Deaf/Blind Project Offering Daily Webinars
The NY Deaf/Blind Project is offering daily webinars on a variety of topics to support families and professionals who work with children who have sensory loss and multiple disabilities. The webinars occur daily from 3:30-4:30 EST and have live sign language interpreting and Spanish interpreting is provided.

Parent Hub
for virtual IEP/mediation meetings.

Paths to Literacy for students who are blind or visually impaired
This website has a variety of activities that focus on developing valuable skills for students with complex challenges including blindness, deaf-blindness and multiple challenges. Below are some examples of the resources available:

• Stay-at-Home Activities for Children with Visual Impairments
• Teaching Basic Concepts and Pre-Braille Skills
• Activities for Learning at Home and in the Community
• Tactile Fun Bucket
• Tactile Baby Blankets
• 56 Tactile Math Ideas: Ideas and Suggestions for Development of Basic Concepts & Early Math Skills
• Strong Hands Make Good Readers
• Resources on Lilli Nielsen and Active Learning

Spedxchange – The Community for Special Education Answers, Resources, and Jobs
This website provides resources related to Speech/Communication services. There is a home-schedule resource and many others.

TeachTown – Exceptional Solutions for Exceptional Students
This website provides a variety of resources for educators and family members.

TeachTown - Social Skills
This comprehensive, character- based video-modeling curriculum for students with special needs connects the treatment and progress made in the clinical setting to what children are learning in the school setting.

The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders
The website offers free Evidenced-based modules.

The Pathway to Literacy for Students with Significant Disabilities. ASHA, 11/18/11, San Diego. Pamela Mims, PhD. Linda Schreiber, MS, CCC-SLP

CEC Archived Webinar: Teaching Special Education Online During COVID-19

News 2 You
This website is typically a subscription-based services. However, they are offering some free resources for parents and educators in response to COVID-19.

SUN WEST Resource Bank
This website is filled with thousands of free educational resources for K-12.

Boom Learning - Allows teachers to access and/or create digital activities for students of all levels.

Perkins School for the Blind eLearning

• Math Resources All Ages
• Active Learning Tutorial
• Activities for Adapting Different Subjects
• Remote Learning Materials: Student with CVI and Multiple Disabilities

Distance Education for Resources for Children Who Are Blind - features strategies and hands-on activities for parents and children to perform together to foster Braille skills, as well as early movement and travel.

National Center on Deaf-Blindness - Active learning activities.

Active Learning Space Dr. Lilli Nielsen's techniques that emphasize simple ways to change the environment so that a child becomes an "active learner".

While You Are Home: Activities for Children with CVI – a blog focused on activities that parents can do with their children with CVI.

Educational Apps to Support Students with CVI

Instructional Strategies for Children with CVI