Special Education

Explore and share tips, strategies, and resources for supporting students with special needs.

Making Learning at Home Work for Preschool Students
It's not easy to teach young children remotely. These strategies can help make instruction accessible and engaging—for students and their families.
Maddi Bodine
Bringing Student Voice Into IEP Conversations
Asking students questions like these can help educators and parents craft effective individualized education programs.
Daniel Vollrath
How to Improve Students With Disabilities’ Sense of Belonging
By focusing on play, schools are finding ways to bring students with and without disabilities together, to the benefit of both groups.
Emelina Minero
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The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
How to Improve Distance Learning for Students With IEPs
Strategies for parental involvement and synchronous and asynchronous activities can help students with individualized education programs.
Kathryn Welby
New Strategies in Special Education as Kids Learn From Home
In special education, teachers say that schedules, sensory supports, and close collaboration with families can help smooth the transition to remote learning.
Nora Fleming
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Supporting Students With Dysgraphia
While there's not a lot of research on dysgraphia yet, there are a few signs you should look out for, and some evidence-based tactics to help kids with the writing condition.
Apps for Students With Special Needs—As School Buildings Shutter
The coronavirus creates a unique challenge for students with special needs—educators share recommendations for apps to support learning at home.
Jayne Clare
17 Ways to Help Students With ADHD Concentrate
Teacher-tested ideas to help students quietly fidget.
Youki Terada
DIY Ways to Meet a Child's Sensory Needs at Home
Occupational therapists and trauma-informed teachers weigh in on how to create sensory tools and spaces with what you have at home.
Emelina Minero, Nora Fleming
8 Tips for Conducting Virtual IEP Meetings
Educators, parents, and students usually gather in person at school for individualized education program meetings, but digital tools can be used for this work.
Kathryn Nieves
The Missing Autistic Girls
In the past two decades, autism diagnoses have soared—but new research shows that girls have frequently been overlooked, leaving them without crucial support.
Carly Berwick
6 Ways to Transition IEP Goals to Remote Learning
During the Covid-19 pandemic, meeting IEP goals can be a challenge. We offer ways to help.
Kathryn Fishman-Weaver
Co-Teaching in Distance Learning
A middle school English and special education teacher share how they meet the needs of all of their students—and the new practices they’ll bring back to the classroom.
Sarah Kesty, Joshua Dye
Keeping Students With Learning Disabilities Motivated at Home
Using movement breaks and improving skills like the ability to focus can help high school students with learning disabilities stay on track in this unsettled time.
Daniel Vollrath