Internet Sites For Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities and the Teachers Who Work with Them

Television and Books

Search Engine

Yahooligans
www.yahooligans.com
Yahooligans is a search engine for kids. It has links to many subjects including sports, nature, computers, science, and math.

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Television and Books

Nick Jr. -
www.nickjr.com
This is Nick Jr.'s homepage. It has links to its shows. Some pages are better than others. Blue's Clues has games to download or play while online that focus on preschool skills. Don't forget to checkout teacher / parents links. Shockwave is required for some sites.

PBS for Kids -
www.pbs.org/kids
This is PBS for kids' home page. It offers links to all its kids shows. Some are better than others. Barney offers some simple games.

Dr. Seuss -
www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
This site has many games to play. Some games are harder than others. Most games require Shockwave.

Berenstain Bears
http://www.berenstainbears.com
This web site offers many printable pages. The interactive book is not as exciting as expected. This site requires Vivo Active Player to watach the movies.

Thomas the Tank Engine
www.thomasthetankengine.com
Thomas the Tank Engine offers some games. A difficult memory game and an easier click and match game.

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Games

Kids Space
www.kids-space.org
This web site is for kids by kids. Hop Pop town allows students to make and record music. Pen Pals are able to be found from all over the globe at this site. Shockwave is required for the musical portion of this web site.

Kids Domain
www.kidsdomain.com
This site has stuff for children of all ages. It has pages of icons and games. It is a little slow due to the graphics but still nice.

Billy Bear 4 Kids
www.billybear4kids.com
This site offers lots of different online games. There are also printable games to play offline. There is a storybook section too.

Lego
www.lego.com
This site offers more difficult tasks other than the other sites. It is challenging and fun. It is a very colorful and stimulating site.

Assistive Technology Resources

Suite 101.com -
http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/assistive_technology
This site offers articles related to assistive technology.

Mayer-Johnson Company -
www.mayer-johnson.com/
This site offers downloads of new symbols for Boardmaker. There is also an area to share boards. At present only Speaking Dynamically boards are available.

IntelliTools -
www.intellitools.com
This web site has the IntelliTools Activity Exchange. The Activity Exchange is a place where activities that are created by individuals are collected and may be downloaded for free to be used with IntelliTools software. Why should we create it, if it has already been created?

Prentke Romich Company -
www.prentrom.com/
The creators of minspeak have created this web site. It includes teaching ideas for teaching students how to communicate.

Closing the Gap -
www.closingthegap.com
Closing the Gap is dedicated to assistive technology and integration. This web site provides past articles from their magazine. It also provides links to other sites of interest.

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Teacher Resources

Activities for Teaching Very Basic Skills
http://www.humboldt1.com/~hope4all/
This site has lesson plans for teaching very basic skills. It also has links to computer games and other links of interest.