mpact their ability to succeed in school and community. As schools increasingly use social and emotional learning (SEL) to provide students with a well-rounded education, this 2020 guide from the National Center on Intensive Intervention at the American Institutes for Research puts explicit focus on students with intensive needs within SEL programs.
Going the Distance: Online Strategies for Helping Students with Disabilities: Presents research-based suggestions for educators working online with students who have disabilities. This blog from the REL Mid-Atlantic addresses effective practices that advance distance learning, noting that students with disabilities represent a significant portion of our nation’s school-age learners.
READY NOW - Education Technology Resources to Support Special Education Practitioners and Children and Students with or At Risk for Disabilities: Provides a large set of research-based special education learning aids designed to support education practitioners and/or students with or at risk for disabilities, whether for teaching and learning in person, virtually, or a combination of both. Each tool included in this guide has been evaluated by developers and their collaborators for usability, feasibility, and promise of learning or efficacy.
OCR Short Webinar on Online Education and Website Accessibility: Offers guidance for providing online education and ensuring website accessibility for students with disabilities for schools utilizing distance learning amid physical school closures (8 minutes).
Support for Kids with ADHD During the Coronavirus Crisis - Cómo apoyar a niños con TDAH durante la crisis del COVID-19 (Spanish language version): Synthesizes suggestions from mental health experts for helping children with ADHD (and their families) to cope and succeed. Child Mind Institute reminds us that, while families are struggling to care for (and homeschool) children cut off from their normal routines and activities, those who have ADHD may need extra structure and support to manage attention and behavior challenges and keep on track with learning in this challenging situation.
Plan and Deliver: Educating Students with Disabilities in Remote Settings: Focuses on adapting instruction to distance learning platforms to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities. Provides guidance on pertinent legal requirements, and how to think about accessibility for remote learning in new ways to plan and deliver remote instruction for those students. with disabilities. REL Midwest draws on evidence-based practices from traditional school settings and adapts them for remote and online environments. This blog entry also includes free resources from the Technical Assistance and Dissemination Centers of ED’s Office of Special Education Programs [OSEP].
Distance Learning for Special Education: Provides resources from over 1,800 educators and specialists to support the needs of students with significant disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the move to online instruction. These resources are open source and can be adapted to fit a variety of needs.
Supporting Individuals with Autism through Uncertain Times: Presents seven support strategies designed to meet the unique needs of individuals with autism during COVID-19’s period of uncertainty. The Frank Porter Graham Child Development (UNC-Chapel Hill) Autism Team provides examples and ready-made resources to help caregivers implement the strategies easily. Included materials purposely represent a variety of styles/designs/complexity to model the range of what may be most meaningful across ages and skills, and to demonstrate what can be generated, with few materials, by busy caregivers.
Staying Safe and Mentally Well During COVID-19: One-page tip sheet from the Center for American Indian Health at Johns Hopkins University offers suggestions for exercising mental health and relieving stress, based on input from the CDC and NIDA.
Double Jeopardy: COVID-19 and Behavioral Health Disparities for Black and Latino Communities in the U.S.: Shares data from CDC, 