Special Education
Resources for students during school closure
**Students are not required to access or complete any of these resources!**
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Special Education Resources
Special Education Resources
Resource Program Links and Recommendations
Resource Program Links and Recommendations
- AUSD RSP Home Learning -Enrichment activities to support learning at home
- Education.com -Access to free printable worksheets and academic games
- ABCYa - Literacy and Math Games Grades TK-5
- Starfall - Literacy Games Grades K-2
- Fun Brain - Reading & Grammar Games
- Storyline Online - Digital Read-alouds for All Ages
- Just Books Read Aloud - Read-alouds by Reading Level
- Prodigy - Math Practice Made Fun
- Khan Academy - Math and Science Digital Lessons Grades K-8
- Moby Max - All Academic Content Grades 1-8
- Math Playground - Games Sorted by Topic/Math Strand
- Fun Brain - Math Games with Grade Level Recommendations
- Mr. Nussbaum.com - Math Games
- PBS Kids - Math Games for Little Learners
Special Day Class Links and Recommendations
Special Day Class Links and Recommendations
- Your teacher’s Google Classroom
- Starfall - Literacy Games Grades K-2
- Education.com -Access to free printable worksheets and academic games
- Arcadia Library Online Audio Books Resources
- 20 days of free articles, stories, videos, and fun learning activities
- Unique Learning System
Autism SDC Links and Recommendations
Autism SDC Links and Recommendations
- Your teacher’s Google Classroom
- Autismclassroomresources.com - This website has math, matching, and many other practice activities students can do at home.
- Education.com -Access to free printable worksheets and academic games
- Unique Learning System
Functional Skills SDC Links and Recommendations
Functional Skills SDC Links and Recommendations
- Unique Learning System
- Use natural opportunities to maintain skills
- Count/add/subtract/multiply when
- Setting the table
- Cleaning up
- Sorting/folding laundry
- Cooking
- Playing a board game
- Read environmental print/numbers
- Sing the ABC Song while washing hands
- Label objects/actions/attributes at home and in the community
- Ask “wh” questions about a video or book
- Count/add/subtract/multiply when
Speech and Language Links and Recommendations
Speech and Language Links and Recommendations
- Speech Therapy Home Activities- This links to a free download of three handouts that promote speech and language at home.
- AUSD Speech and Language Activities for Home
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Speech and Language Songs- Youtube Channel of videos with Core Vocabulary Songs
Occupational Therapy Links and Recommendations
Occupational Therapy Links and Recommendations
OT Enrichment Resources Document 1.docxAdapted PE Links and Recommendations
Adapted PE Links and Recommendations
Social Emotional Behavior Links
Social Emotional Behavior Links
- National Association of School PSychologist (NASP) handout (English, Spanish, Chinese available)--Talking to Children About COVID-19: A Parent Resources
- COVID-19 Information By and For People with Disabilities
- Coping with stress during infectious disease outbreaks
- Social Emotional Apps:
- California Peer-Run Warm Line
- Toll-Free Number: 1-855-845-7415
- Web Chat: https://www.mentalhealthsf.org/peer-run-warmline/
- Immediate, free non-emergency emotional support is available to anyone in the state via telephone or instant messaging
- A toll-free service staffed 24/7 by trained Peers with specialized training in supporting mental health challenges,
Helping your student maintain consistency to ease their transition back to school
- Maintain routines: Help your student maintain a routine. Make a copy of this example and edit it to meet your family needs.
- Try to have a snack and lunch at your child’s typical school snack and lunch times
- Have your child wake up and go to sleep like they were attending school
- Limit gaming and device time
- Help with chores
- Take out the trash
- Set the table
- Sort Laundry
- Make a snack/help make a meal
- Clean up a room
Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness
- Family GoNoodle- This website gets kids moving and practice mindful activities
- Headspace For Kids- A great website for kids to practice meditation and calming exercises
- UCLAhealth.org-Guided Meditations- Guided meditations
- CareSolace - Take advantage of the online and virtual therapy resources offered through Care Solace. Care Solace is open 24/7 to support families, students and staff in need and will assist them in finding available local resources. Those in need of support may call us 24/7 at 888-515-0595 or email us at weserve@caresolace.org. We are ready to serve all people in need of services!
- Reduce exposure by getting matched to an online therapist.
- Care Solace Care Concierge Team will hand hold families through this process.
Tech & Other Resources
Tech & Other Resources
- AUSD Summer Tech Resources - created by the AUSD Innovation Coaches as a summer, teacher approved, selection of educational activities.
- Brainpop (Your teacher can give you the password)
- Code.org - Coding: Challenge the Mind & Learn 21st Century Skills
- Type Rocket - Practice Your Typing Skills
- Dance Mat Typing - Improve Your Touch Typing & Speed
- Google Arts and Culture - Explore collections from around the world
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems - Grab some paper, pencils, and crayons and explore ways how drawing and writing come together.
- Incredibleart.org - Art lessons that you can look up by grade level, subject, artist, medium, or art period (Pre-school -College available)
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Infused home learning Lessons - Katie Novak & Alison Sancinito created day by day lessons you can print and use tomorrow! They embed authentic choice and resources for your learners at home.
Offline Activities
Offline Activities
- If you have a music instrument...practice!
- Family puzzles and game boards
- Enjoy Nature (go for a walk, play outside, ride a bike or scooter)
- Bake cookies or cook a family favorite recipe
- Scrapbook photos of friends and family
- Write a letter to a friend
- Organize an area in your room
- Read a book and share your favorite part of the story
- Create a comic book
- Find geometric shapes in your home (I spy a triangle...I spy a square)
- Flip a coin 10, 20, 100 times to compare heads vs. tail
- Study patterns in plants by collecting leaves
- Create a new dance move or game
- Count steps between rooms in your home
- Play "I'm Thinking of..." (I am thinking of an animal that is grey, is large, and has a trunk...)
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