Special Education

Use these special education resources to help you become a better teacher and advocate for students with special needs. Find information on special education careers, social skills, testing, and more.

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    Worksheets for Back to School Goal Setting
  • Rabbit Ears
    Chaining Forward and Chaining Backwards
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    Replacement Behavior: A Positive Approach to Problem Behaviors
  • Young woman teacher reading a story to a boy in a wheelchair
    Accommodations for Students With Special Needs
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    Back To School Icebreakers, Worksheets, and Resources
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    Operational Definition of Behavior in a School Setting
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    Introduction to Special Education Resource Rooms
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    Special Education Jobs Without College Degrees
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    Assessing Students With Special Needs
  • Teacher pointing to students in class
    The 49 Techniques from Teach Like a Champion
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    What Is General Education?
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    Functional Skills: Skills to Help Special Education Students Gain Independence
  • HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILD
    Special Education Teaching Strategy Lists for Classroom Success
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    Data Collection for Special Education
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    Self Contained Classrooms
  • 10 Strategies to Support Hearing-Impaired Students in Classrooms
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    What is Special Education?
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    Hand Over Hand Prompting for Children With Disabilities
  • Young children gathered around a potted plant.
    Generalization Is the Ability to Use Skills Across Environments
  • Teacher and elementary student using laptop in classroom
    Curriculum Based Assessment for Children
  • A teacher poses in front of her bulletin boart
    Bulletin Boards for Teaching
  • Woman helping a young boy put on a shirt
    Task Analysis: The Foundation for Successfully Teaching Life Skills
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    Learning Centers in Classrooms
  • A teacher, a child, and his parents attend a parent teacher conference
    Documenting Communication With Parents
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    Teaching Developmental Reading Skills for Targeted Content Focuses
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    Resolving Conflicts With Parents, Para-Pros, and Administrators
  • Student using AAC communication board.
    Special Education Topics: What Is AAC?
  • Children learning to plant and care for plants
    Extended School Year Services (ESY) for Students with Special Needs
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    Chunking: Breaking Tasks into Manageable Parts
  • A girl looks out of a classroom window
    What Is the Concept of Regular Education?
  • School-age boy reading
    Criterion-Referenced Tests: Measuring Specific Academic Skills
  • Juan Mata visits Special Olympics - Laureus
    The Gold Standard for Special Education Teachers
  • Classroom Essentials for the New Special Educator
  • Visual Schedules for Students with Disabilities
  • Boys hitting each other in a classroom
    Proxemics, the Study of Personal Space
  • Students taking test in classroom
    Testing and Assessment for Special Education
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    Supports for Special Education Students
  • Student working with concept map.
    Using Graphic Organizers for Special Education
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    Asking Better Questions With Bloom's Taxonomy
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    Word Families to Support Decoding Skills in Children with Disabilities
  • Student shouting at desk in classroom
    Anecdotal Evidence
  • Boy in the car
    ABC: Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
  • Collecting Data
    Collecting Information About the Target Behavior
  • Child misbehaving at school
    How to Write a Functional Behavior Analysis
  • Guide to Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs)
  • A log to use for parent communication designed for your whole class or your whole caseload.
    Communicate With Special Education Parents
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    Behavior Versus Classroom Management
  • Mother and daughter looking at a note
    A Home Note Program to Support Positive Behavior
  • Children Playing With Toy Laptops in Class
    9 Strategies to Handle Difficult Behaviors in Children
  • Young child sitting in corner as punishment
    3 Think Sheets: Students' Responses to Inappropriate Behavior
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    Anecdotal Records as a Foundation for Behavior Intervention
  • Teenage girl with Down syndrome 13 year old educated in ULIS (Localised Units for Inclusion School).
    Behavior and Classroom Management in Special Education
  • Behavior Contracts for a Weekly Level System Contract
  • A Color Classroom Behavior Chart Using Clothespins
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    A Behavior Contract and Behavior Monitoring Tools
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    Creating a Comprehensive Classroom Management Plan
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    IEP Goals to Support Behavior Modification
  • Behavior Tracking Contracts, Incident Reports, and Worksheets
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    Letter Blends - A Lesson Plan for Students With Dyslexia
  • Group of special needs girls with instructor in gym
    Physical Education Adaptations for Students with Disabilities
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    Fantasy Christmas Shopping Lesson Plan
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