Teacher resources, information and strengths- and evidence-based strategies that aim to help create inclusive education environments for children with disabilities and developmental challenges.

Special Education Director Tools

Apps for blind, low vision, deaf and reading impaired students. Highly visual and fully audible typing tutor, games, flash cards and study apps.
username:debra.montero@jordandistrict.org 
Password: welcome

Helps students read on-screen more effectively. It is used both by skilled readers and readers with dyslexia, ADHD and autism.

FREE, federally funded library of 900,000+ accessible ebooks of all sorts, including textbooks, educational materials, novels, and children books, for students with reading barriers such as dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and cerebral palsy.  Accessed on any device in formats including audio, audio + highlighted text, braille, and large font.

TapTapSee is a mobile camera application designed specifically for blind and visually impaired users, powered by the CloudSight Image Recognition API. TapTapSee utilizes your device's camera and VoiceOver functions to take a picture or video of anything and identify it out loud for you.

Help for Autistic & Dyslexic

Tools and techniques for students on the autism spectrum. Tools are sorted into four categories: Behavior, Communication, Social, and Classroom Organization.

A collection of standardized picture symbols used for communication with students who are strong visual learners. This includes those with autism spectrum disorders, Down Syndrome, speech and language disorders, and behavioral disorders.

Educational comic curriculums smash motivational barriers to reading and learning, especially including Dyslexia and Autism. The comics make learning more accessible and encourage reluctant readers to get into reading, increasing their engagement and learning retention. 

Username: JRE;
Password: 1234

Not Free. Dyslexia Gold goes Beyond Phonics to address underlying problems. We address vision problems like convergence insufficiency and poor tracking as well as auditory problems, like the phonological deficit to build all the skills needed to read.

A web-based resource center with a wealth of information, including evidenced-based practices, for parents, educators, other professionals, and those with dyslexia.

The iTalkDoc app was created to help simplify communication for individuals with autism. We designed it to be simple because too many choices can be visually over stimulating and make communication more difficult. Our goal is to create a starting point for communication.

ASLCORE offers suggestions for American Sign Language expressions of technical/academic content. These signs were carefully created and vetted by groups of Deaf content experts and translators, with some inclusion of hearing members of teams when warranted.

ATOMIC HANDS curates and creates weekly STEM videos, news, events, and resources in American Sign Language. They provide educational training to teachers of the deaf and interpreters on how to deliver STEM topics in ASL and give presentations and host activities for K-12 schools.

Prepares professionals who serve children with hearing loss who are learning to listen and talk. Whether you're a teacher of the deaf, special education teacher, speech-language pathologist, early interventionist or audiologist, we want to work with you. The goal of CID Professional Development is to help you learn more, teach effectively and lead not only the children you serve, but your colleagues as well.