Resources

Anxiety:

1. 1. UCLA Center for Child Anxiety Resilience Education and SupportAAC Girls: The UCLA Child Anxiety Resilience Education and Support (CARES) Center is an innovative center dedicated to supporting the development of resilient, emotionally healthy children. The Center is also focused on training, research, and community outreach to help clinicians, researchers, school staff, and parents recognize the early signs of childhood anxiety and support families in accessing resources to build family strengths and resilience.
   2. Anxiety & Depression Association of America: Founded in 1979, ADAA is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through aligning research, practice and education.
   3. The Child Anxiety Network: The Child Anxiety Network was created by Dr. Donna Pincus and is designed to provide thorough, user-friendly information about child anxiety. We accept no advertising. The Child Anxiety Network is also designed to provide direction for those who are not sure where to turn when they think their child or a child they know may need professional help to cope with anxiety.

Assistive Technology (AT):

1. 1. AAC Girls: This blog is a companion to the website aacintervention.com.
   2. AAC Community: A resource for and about people who communicate without speaking.
   3. AAC Innovations: Laura Hayes is a speech-language pathologist with over 12 years of augmentative communication experience in both school and medical settings.
   4. AAC Intervention: Caroline Musselwhite is an assistive technology specialist with more than 30 years of experience working with children and adolescents with severe disabilities, in a variety of settings, including Head Start, developmental day programs, and the public schools. She has also taught courses at several universities, including West Virginia University, and Western Carolina University.
   5. AAC Language Lab: The AAC Language Lab offers many free resources, providing an opportunity to explore this great resource prior to subscribing. Resources include Parent Guides, sample lesson plans, manual communication boards and much, much more.
   6. AbleNet (YouTube): ableU professional development sessions are recorded and posted to our ableU YouTube channel. Hundreds of on-demand sessions are available for you to view 24/7.
   7. Ace Centre: Discover a wide range of resources, publications and downloads to support use and implementation of AAC and AT.
   8. Chat Editor: ChatEditor is a supplemental program that has been provided for customizing the Chat vocabulary on your Windows desktop or laptop computer.
   9. Communication Training Series: The ASF Communication Series was designed by three communication and AAC experts, including Erin Sheldon, M. Ed.; Maureen Nevers, MS, CCC-SLP, Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, Augmentative Communication Specialist; Dr. Caroline Musselwhite, CCC-SLP; Mary-Louise Bertram, teacher, and PODD AAC specialist.
   10. Explore AT: A clearinghouse for information and resources on many different assistive technologies.
   11. Gal Van Tatenhove (YouTube): Gail is a Speech-Language Pathologist who specialized in working with children and adults who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems.  Her specialty area is with Minspeak systems. She is also the author of the Pixon Project Kit.
   12. Georgia Department of Education: Special Education Services and Supports – Assistive Technology.
   13. Goblin Tools: A collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.
   14. Joyzabala.com: Joy Zabala is the creator of the SETT Framework and confounder of QIAT. This site provides information about Joy and her work, and support materials related to the SETT Framework and to QIAT, UDL, and AEM.
   15. Learning Accelerator: The goal of the Blended and Personalized at Work site is to help educators and leaders discover, test, and share real-world strategies to enact and scale blended learning in their schools today.
   16. LessonPix: Create Unlimited Custom Visual Materials.
   17. National Assistive Technology in Education Network (NATE): Brings together information from the many fields and disciplines that are involved in assistive technology services in educational settings.
   18. National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (NRTC): The mission of NRTC is to enhance employment and independent living outcomes for individuals who are blind or have low vision through research, training, education, and dissemination.
   19. PRC-Saltillo: A worldwide developer of speech-generating devices (SGDs), market-leading apps and several innovative AAC language systems that enable individuals with complex communication disorders the ability to express themselves.
   20. PrAACtical AAC: PrAACtical AAC supports a community of professionals and families who are determined to improve the communication and literacy abilities of people with significant communication difficulties.
   21. Project Core: A Stepping-Up Technology Implementation Grant Directed by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies.
   22. Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative: The mission of the new Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative Development Team is to assist early intervention agencies, school districts, and their partners to provide assistive technology by making training and technical assistance available through our development of new and updated materials related to the provision of assistive technology tools, and services.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD):

1. 1. Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Materials (AFIRM): AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with autism from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.
   2. The Autism Circuit: A project based at ESC Region 13 and funded by a grant from the Texas Education Agency for the purpose of providing professional development to educators working with students with autism spectrum disorder.
   3. OCALI (Autism Center Grab and Go Resource Gallery of Interventions): Explore these interventions to support all learners, including those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Completed and blank templates are free and available to download. Each intervention has a how-to explanation and demonstrates how it may be used in the school, home, community and work settings. 
   4. Organization for Autism Research: An organization founded and led by parents and grandparents of autistic children, who serve on the Board of Directors providing leadership, life experience, and heart.

Functional Life Skills:

1. 1. Accessible Chef: A collection of free visual recipes and other resources to help teach cooking skills to individuals with disabilities at home or in a special education classroom. 
   2. Cents and Sensibility: As part of a mission to provide financial education,  a financial education booklet was developed, Cents and Sensibility: A Guide to Money Management, to respond to a need in the disability community. 
   3. Family Resources for Complex Learners: The PA Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN), in collaboration with the Bureau of Special Education, has created this website for families and general educators supporting complex learners in virtual learning. 
   4. FLASH Curriculum: A widely used sexual health education curriculum developed by Public Health – Seattle & King County and designed to prevent teen pregnancy, STDs, and sexual violence, and to increase knowledge about the reproductive system and puberty. FLASH is available for elementary, middle, high school, and special education classrooms. 
   5. Free Everyday Life Tutorials at GCFGlobal: Life is filled with chaos, and we must learn to solve problems in the midst of it every day. These interactives give you a chance to practice these challenges without real-life consequences.
   6. Independent Living Skills (ILS) Checklist: Michigan Department of Education.
   7. Life Skills Inventory Independent Living Skills Assessment Tool: The Life Skills Inventory Independent Living Skills Assessment Tool is provided by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services to assess the level that students are at in the process of independent living. 
   8. Life Skills Program (Teaching Aid): A Life Skills Program focuses on everyday skills for Special Education Students: personal/social skills, hygiene, independent life skills such as cooking and clothing care, work competencies, and functional academics. These skills are essential for special education students to learn as they provide the basis for and facilitate transition from school to life in the “real world”. Learning life skills are best done “by doing”. “We learn by doing.”
   9. MyKidsBank: MyKidsBank artificial banks are used to assist in the education of personal money management.  Each artificial online bank operates similar to a real online bank through a web browser on the internet.  
   10. PACER Center: Apps to help young adults with disabilities learn about and manage their money. 
   11. Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (Financial Education): Providing financial education to people with disabilities. Their education efforts help people make more informed decisions about managing their personal finances and take control of their financial future.
   12. Pennsylvania Career Zone: Budget Your Life 
   13. Practical Money Skills: Spark your students’ curiosity and improve their financial literacy with Practical Money Skills award-winning program. 
   14. Study Money: This website is designed to help people with disabilities and their families and advocates learn about managing money.  
   15. Supports for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: This resource is being provided to support teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities. The lesson ideas are divided by grade-band from kindergarten through high school. Sections are divided into functional activities associated with time of day (morning, afternoon, evening). 

Instructional Design:

1. CAST: A multifaceted organization with a singular ambition: Bust the barriers to learning that millions of people experience every day.
2. Dynamic Learning Maps Professional Development: This site was developed to provide professional development for educators working with students with significant cognitive disabilities. It focuses on teaching and learning in the areas of English language arts, mathematics and science.
3. The Framework for Access and Belonging (FAB): The FAB mission is to identify the goal of inclusion for each individual and remove learning barriers to the educational environment to promote inclusion that demonstrates strong collaboration between schools and families.  
4. Intervention Central: Provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards.
5. MyODP Training Resource Center: The Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) in Pennsylvania has a Training & Resource Center that provides training, resources, and communications. The training is available to everyone, but is primarily intended for professionals who need to complete the courses as a training requirement.
6. The UDL Guidelines (CAST): The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.
7. Understood: A private operating foundation dedicated to helping those that learn and think differently discover their potential, take control, find community, and stay on positive paths along each stage of life’s journey.
8. What Works Clearinghouse: Provides scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the public. 

Literacy:

1. Academic Word Finder: A tool specifically designed to surface the high-value words from complex texts.
2. Adapted Literature Lessons: A searchable list of ALL adapted literature available. The Sherlock Center is committed to helping students with severe disabilities to participate in the general curriculum. As resources permit, the Sherlock Center creates adapted versions of popular literature for use by students, teachers, and families.
3. Center for Literacy and Disability Studies: The Center’s mission is to promote literacy and communication for individuals of all ages with disabilities. It is the belief of the CLDS that disabilities are only one of many factors that influence an individuals ability to learn to read and write and to use print throughout their life and across their living environments. All individuals, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, have the right to an opportunity to learn to read and write in order to increase and enhance their educational opportunities, vocational success, communicative competence, self-empowerment capabilities, and independence. 
4. Dynamic Learning Maps Professional Development: This site was developed to provide professional development for educators working with students with significant cognitive disabilities. It focuses on teaching and learning in the areas of English language arts, mathematics and science, while also providing important information regarding components of the Dynamic Learning Maps^® The modules on this site are part of the instructional professional development system.  
5. Dyslexia Help: DyslexiaHelp is designed to help you understand and learn about dyslexia and language disability. 
6. Engaging All Learners: View these five videos to see how teachers across the province are using the 4-Blocks of Literacy to create accessible learning experiences for Grade 1 to 6 students with significant disabilities.  
7. English Language Arts Strategies for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: This video collection features strategies for comprehensive literacy instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities. The purpose of the collection is to support educators and families in understanding how all students can learn and make progress in Common Core English Language Arts standards.
8. Epic!: Free access to thousands of high-quality books, loved by millions of kids grade 6 and under.
9. Florida Center for Reading Research: From 2004 to 2010, a team of researchers and teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. The activities are designed for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend their learning of what has already been taught, sometimes with teacher assistance and sometimes independently. Students can complete the activities in small groups, pairs, or individually. 
10. Free Reading: Free Reading contains activities and intervention materials for early literacy skills.
11. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers are an illustration of your thoughts on paper. They can help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize your ideas. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you’ve downloaded an organizer, type in your comments and print it out.
12. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively with these free graphic organizer templates, available for download. They can be used to structure writing projects and help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, and brainstorming. 
13. Iowa Core English Language Arts Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: The purpose of this video collection is to share research-based strategies to support educators and families in understanding how students with significant cognitive disabilities can learn and make progress in the Iowa Core English Language Arts Essential Elements.  
14. Language and Reading Research Consortium: The purpose of Let’s Know! is to develop skills that are foundational to reading comprehension in young children. Let’s Know! uses core content such as science texts and story books as a base for developing these foundational skills. Let’s Know! provides a systematic scope and sequence of instruction – organized over one academic year – that is designed to build students’ language skills.  Some of the language skills targeted are knowledge of different text-structures, making inferences, vocabulary, and comprehension monitoring.  
15. Literacy How: See evidence-based literacy instruction in action, as Literacy How mentors and classroom teachers demonstrate activities and lessons for PreK-grade 3 students. Topics align with Literacy How’s Reading Wheel: Oral Language, Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Syntax, Vocabulary, Morphology, Text Comprehension, and Written Expression.  
16. Literacy Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities: Offers information, research-based instructional approaches, and effective instructional and learning strategies to support school leaders, teachers, and other specialists working to better meet the literacy and communication needs of students with significant disabilities.
17. Little Bird Tales: Little Bird Tales is a creative story building tool that allows you to capture your students voice and creativity and is fun and easy to share. 
18. The Meadows Center: The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) is dedicated to generating, disseminating, and supporting the implementation of empirically validated, evidence-based practices to significantly affect student outcomes and support educators, researchers, policymakers, families, and other stakeholders who strive to improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for all learners. 
19. Read Theory: Teachers from all around the world are using Read Theory to help their students improve their reading comprehension skills in a fun way that keeps them attentive and motivated.  
20. Read Works: FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade .
21. Regional Educational Laboratory Program: This Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide provides information for kindergarten teachers on how to support families as they practice foundational reading skills at home. It serves as a companion to the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade. Both guides present four research-based recommendations and how-to steps: the WWC guide is for teaching children at school, and this guide is to help teachers support families in practicing foundational reading skills at home.  
22. Rewordify: Is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.  
23. Story Shares: A nonprofit literacy organization dedicated to inspiring a love of reading across the globe. 
24. Target the Problem!: Information to help parents and classroom teachers understand the specific problems a child may be having with reading. You’ll find practical suggestions on what you (and kids themselves) can do to help students overcome or deal with their reading difficulties. 
25. Tar Heel Gameplay: A collection of free, easy-to-play, and accessible games. Each game is speech enabled and may be accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens and 1 to 3 switches. 
26. Tar Heel Reader: A collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.
27. Tar Heel Shared Reader: Tar Heel Shared Reader provides free access to quality professional development, materials, and technology that support the implementation of shared reading for school-aged students with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) who do not read connected text with comprehension above a 2nd grade level. 
28. VocabGrabber: VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.  
29. We are Teachers: Free (or Low Cost) Websites for Practicing Reading.
30. Word Sorts: Help fine-tune K-5 students’ higher-level thinking skills by having them categorize information. Students cut out and sort words according to the categories provided at the top of each sheet, or by creating their own categories. There are more than 60 word sorts in all, covering letters, sounds, content area topics, and open sorts.

Mathematics:

1. Concrete-Representational-Abstract (PaTTAN): An instruction design for mathematics that provides more explicitness with abstract concepts. 
2. Khan Academy: A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. 
3. Project STAIR: Project STAIR is a resource for teachers and parents who are looking for help in teaching their students math.   
4. School-Wide Strategies for Managing Mathematics: Here are some wide-ranging classroom (Tier I RTI) ideas for math interventions that extend from the primary through secondary grades.
5. XtraMath: An online math fact fluency program that helps students develop quick recall and automaticity of their basic math facts.

Motivation:

1. Authentic Happiness (Unversity of Pennsylvania): The purpose of this website is to provide free resources where people can learn about Positive Psychology through readings, videos, research, opportunities, conferences, questionnaires with feedback, and more. There is no charge for the use of this site.
2. The TAOS Institute: The Taos Institute’s® mission is to bring together scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value, and their application in relational, collaborative, and appreciative practices around the world.
3. The VIA Institute on Character: A non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the science of character strengths to the world. 

Secondary Transition Planning:

1. California CareerZone: The California CareerZone site is powered by Headed2, a secure web-based platform designed to help you explore, plan, and prepare for a career you’ll love. 
2. Campaign for Disability Employment: Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, the CDE is a highly collaborative effort among several disability and business organizations that showcases supportive, inclusive workplaces for all workers.
3. Career and College Planning Resources: This page provides links for students and guidance counselors including resources to self assessments, career planning, career development and college planning. 
4. Career Clusters: The National Career Clusters® Framework provides a vital structure for organizing and delivering quality CTE programs through learning and comprehensive programs of study.  
5. Career Connections (YouTube): The Arc Career Connections YouTube Channel. 
6. Career Cruiser: A career and education planning guide.  
7. Career Exploration Videos (Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center): The websites listed on this page include a wide variety of short career exploration videos. 
8. Career Interests Game: This is a game designed to help you match your interests and skills with similar careers. It can help you begin thinking about how your personality will fit in with specific work environments and careers.  
9. CareerOneStop: Your resource for career exploration, training, and jobs. 
10. Charting the LifeCourse: The Charting the LifeCourse framework was developed by families to help individuals with disabilities and families at any age or stage of life develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live.
11. College Scorecard: Search and compare colleges: their fields of study, costs, admissions, results, and more. 
12. Connecticut’s State Education Resource Center: This resource book for middle and high school students with disabilities is designed to help them self-advocate in developing goals for their future after high school, including: learning more about their disability and learning style; understanding their rights and responsibilities under disability law; developing a personal self-advocacy plan; exploring transition options and developing goals; participating in their Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meeting. 
13. Direct Your Future: A career exploration program for middle school and high school students.  
14. Discover Apprenticeship: Click find an apprenticeship, search for an opportunity, and apply directly with the employer or the program sponsor.  
15. Do-It: The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center is dedicated to empowering people with disabilities through technology and education.
16. Edge: Free, professional skills training to set yourself apart.
17. EducationPlanner: One-stop career and college planning website. EducationPlanner provides practical and easy-to-understand advice to help prepare students for the important decisions they will face in the future. 
18. Employment First: An initiative dedicated to ensuring that individuals with disabilities, their families, their support teams, and service providers have the resources and information they need to be successful. 
19. Envision IT Curriculum: EnvisionIT (EIT) is a free, evidence-based, standards-aligned, college and career readiness curriculum for 21st century students in middle and high school. 
20. Explore Work: Want to find out more about who you are and what you’re good at? This training will help you explore your talents and create a plan for your future! 
21. Getting Hired: Getting Hired is dedicated to building inclusive workforces. At our core, we strive to help employers create an inclusive and diverse workforce for job seekers and their employees.
22. Get Ready for College: A free series of online lessons, each focusing on a different aspect in the college preparation, selection, and disability services process. 
23. Going to College: This Web site contains information about living college life with a disability. It’s designed for high school students and provides video clips, activities and additional resources that can help you get a head start in planning for college. 
24. Got Transition: The national resource center on health care transition (HCT) aims to improve the transition from pediatric to adult health care through the use of evidence-driven strategies for clinicians and other health care professionals; public health programs; payers and plans; youth and young adults; and parents and caregivers.
25. Health Resource Center: A national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities.
26. I’m Determined: A state-directed project funded by the Virginia Department of Education, focuses on providing direct instruction, models, and opportunities to practice skills associated with self-determined behavior. 
27. IRIS Center: A national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions. 
28. Job Accommodation Network: JAN’s Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) system is designed to let users explore various accommodation options for people with disabilities in work and educational settings. These accommodation ideas are not all inclusive.  
29. Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities: Provides resources to encourage access and participation of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in the areas of training and education, research, information sharing, and community services.  
30. Let’s Get to Work: The Wisconsin Let’s Get to Work project was a five-year, national systems change grant seeking to improve community employment outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in transition. 
31. Lifespan Transitions Center: Works to equip communities to support the successful and unique transition of individuals with disabilities to ensure they can live their best lives for their whole lives.
32. Map It: A free, online, interactive training designed for transition-aged students who are deaf or hard of hearing.  
33. My Future: Helps young adults plan their next steps in life by bringing together the most recently available information about colleges, careers and military service opportunities from the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education and Labor. 
34. My Next Move: My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. 
35. National Career Development Association: The National Career Development Association (NCDA) provides professional development, publications, standards, and advocacy to practitioners and educators who inspire and empower individuals to achieve their career and life goals. 
36. National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability: Assists state and local workforce development systems to better serve all youth, including youth with disabilities and other disconnected youth.   
37. National Parent Center on Transition and Employment: PACER’s National Parent Center on Transition and Employment is ready with the information families want, presented in a way families can use. 
38. National Technical Assistance Center on Transition: Provides information, tools, and supports to assist multiple stakeholders in delivering effective services and instruction for secondary students and out of school youth with disabilities. 
39. Off-to College Planning Center: Functions as your online guidance counselor for your off-to-college needs. 
40. OhioMeansJobs: Find a job, learn career skills, meet the requirements of your government benefits, and more.
41. O*NET Resource Center: A self-assessment career exploration tool that allows clients to pinpoint what is important to them in a job. It helps people identify occupations that they may find satisfying based on the similarity between their work values (such as achievement, independence, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations. 
42. Pennsylvania CareerLink: Part of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s initiative to transform the landscape of how job-seekers find family sustaining jobs and how employers find the skilled candidates that they need. Through this initiative, a user-friendly, premiere job-matching system has been created to help bridge the gap that currently exists between job-seekers and employers.  
43. Pennsylvania Secondary Transition: The Pennsylvania Community on Transition is a group comprised of various stakeholders from across Pennsylvania who work collaboratively to ensure appropriate transition outcomes for Pennsylvania youth and young adults with disabilities.
44. Pennsylvania Secondary Transition Guide: This website, which is continually updated, provides youth, young adults, parents, and professionals with secondary transition resources to facilitate a young person’s progress towards post-secondary goals related to education, employment, and community living.
45. Pennsylvania Transition Assessment Resources: Provide information and resources for youth and young adults, families/caregivers, educations staff, agency personnel, and other stakeholders regarding the importance of utilizing a variety of  assessments in a planful and ongoing bases throughout the young person’s middle and high school career.
46. Photo Career Quiz: Truity Psychometrics LLC is a developer and publisher of online personality and career tests.   
47. Project 10: The development of this website was funded by Project 10: Transition Education Network at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus through a grant by the Bureau of Exceptional Student Education (BESE), Florida Department of Education.
48. Resume Generator: Use Resume Generator to teach students the importance of written communication. In addition to real-world application, this tool can be used in connection with literature to develop deeper connections with characters. 
49. Roadtrip Nation: No matter where you’re at on your career journey, Roadtrip Nation’s tools and resources will help you find your way forward.  
50. Think College: Think College is a national organization dedicated to developing, expanding, and improving inclusive higher education options for people with intellectual disability.  
51. Transition Coalition: Since 2000, the Transition Coalition has been maximizing professional development opportunities for secondary transition and college and career readiness of youth with disabilities.  
52. Transition Discoveries: Collaborates with communities to co-design opportunities for youth, families, and stakeholders to build on their knowledge, skills and relationships to prepare for life after high school.  
53. Transition Planning Guide (Nebraska): This document was developed under a Nebraska Department of Education IDEA Part B (U.S. Department of Education) Discretionary Grant.
54. Transition Tennessee: Online home for training and resources on preparing students with disabilities for life after high school.  
55. The Vanguard School: Family Resources
56. The Wardrobe: The Wardrobe, formerly known as Career Wardrobe, is a nonprofit social enterprise open to all. The goal is to eliminate clothing insecurity by outfitting people for life or work. 
57. Washington Career Bridge: Career Bridge is Washington’s one-stop source for career and education planning.  
58. Whose Future Is It Anyway?: Whose Future Is It Anyway? helps prepare students for their IEP meetings and gain self-determination skills through six sections that contain 36 lesson sessions. 
59. youth.gov: A U.S. government website that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news. 
60. Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment: The Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment implements innovative research, puts findings into practice, and disseminates knowledge through high-quality products and professional developments. 

Social/Emotional:

1. Behavior Doctor: Training and educational materials to help professionals, educators, and family members, communicate more effectively with people of differing ability levels. 
2. CASEL: At the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, we envision all children and adults as self-aware, caring, responsible, engaged, and lifelong learners who work together to achieve their goals and create a more inclusive, just world. How? Through a commitment to SEL. 
3. Ci3T: Ci3T models of prevention assist schools in creating a comprehensive systems-oriented approach to (a) integrate efforts to support the academic, behavioral, and social competencies of all students; (b) promote collaboration and teaming between all school and community stakeholders; and (c) support educators’ efficacy and well-being through data-informed professional learning, clear expectations for staff and students, and supportive, positive environments.  
4. Intervention Central (Behavior Intervention): Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards. 
5. National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement: The National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement (NCSCB) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is dedicated to supporting students through crisis and loss. 
6. Overcoming Obstacles: Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills.  
7. Pathway 2 Success: Join thousands of educators. As a member, you’ll get updates on blog posts, upcoming sales, teaching ideas, new releases, and exclusive FREE materials!  
8. Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR): Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) are promising practices for disaster behavioral health response and recovery. Both PFA and SPR were developed by the National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as well as other individuals involved in coordinating and participating in disaster response and recovery. 
9. Social Thinking: Help people understand themselves and others to better navigate the social world, foster relationships, and improve their performance at school, at home, and at work.  
10. The Zones of Regulation: The Zones is a systematic, cognitive-behavioral approach used to teach us how to regulate our feelings, energy and sensory needs in order to meet the demands of the situation around us and be successful socially.

Technology Tools:

1. Bitsboard: Create your own lessons, track user progress, and share everything online.
2. ClassTools: Create free games, quizzes, activities, and diagrams in seconds! 
3. CloudConvert: CloudConvert is your Swiss army knife for file conversions. CloudConvert supports nearly all audio, video, document, ebook, archive, image, spreadsheet, and presentation formats. Plus, you can use the online tool without downloading any software.  
4. If This Then That (IFTTT): A way to integrate apps, devices, and services.
5. Flipgrid: Simple, free video discussions to make learning fun, fulfilling, and empowering.
6. Joy Zabala: Creator of the SETT Framework and Cofound of QIAT.
7. Kahoot!: Millions of teachers and students unleash the magic of learning with Kahoot!. Create your own kahoot in minutes or choose from 100+ million ready-to-play games. Engage students virtually with our distance learning features, play in class, and dive into game reports to assess learning. 
8. Make Belief Comix: A safe place where you feel empowered to create and to test new ideas and ways to communicate through art and writing. 
9. MindMup: Capture ideas at the speed of thought – using a mind map maker designed to help you focus on your ideas and remove all the distractions while mindmapping.  
10. National Center on Accessible Educational Materials: Provides technical assistance, coaching, and resources to increase the availability and use of accessible educational materials and technologies for learners with disabilities across the lifespan.
11. Poll Everywhere: Seamlessly engage audiences across hybrid workspaces through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more.  
12. Screencast-O-Matic: Educators and students turn to Screencast-O-Matic for easy video communication. Videos are used in the classroom for flipped/blended learning, video conversations, student assignments, feedback and more!  
13. SnapType: A simple way to complete any school worksheet on your iPad or Tablet.  
14. Symbaloo: Use Symbaloo to save, organize, and share your favorite links in one place!  
15. TED-Ed: TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world.  
16. WatchKnowLearn: WatchKnowLearn has indexed approximately 50,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 5,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom, as well as parents and students at home 24/7. 

Writing:

1. Just My Type: Teachers and therapists are using Just My Type to get kids with writing or learning problems to write/type independently instead of relying on cues from someone seated beside them. The keyboard layouts offered as a visual cue have expanded to include small, large, left and right QWERTY, left and right Dvorak, Upper and Lower Case IntelliKeys and frequency sequence layout all with On-Screen Typing Options.
2. Quill: Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.