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DTN's Resources for Teachers with Disabilities
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DTN's Resources for Teachers with Disabilities
If you can add to this list, please post it on our forum or send us a comment and we'll add it here.
Organizations Helping Teachers with Disabilities
United Kingdom
United States
United Kingdom
- Disabled Teachers Taskforce Removing barriers. Promoting opportunities
- Graduate Teacher Training Resources for Teachers with Disabilities
- National Union of Teachers (NUT) provides a social network for member teachers with disabilities
- Training and Development Agency for Schools provides a set of links for Teachers with disabilities
United States
- AHEAD Association on Higher Education and Disability promotes full and equal participation by individuals with disabilities in higher education.
- Educators with Disabilities Caucus Provides mentoring to preservice and first year teachers with disabilities.
- Capably Disabled Teachers Committee Los Angeles County, CA
- COSD: Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities.
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
Resources and Accommodation Information for Teachers with Disabilities
and obtaining certification. Highlights specific barriers that disabled persons have
faced in the process and suggests possible solutions.
Part Two - coping strategies used by disabled educators in the classroom.
Part Three - barriers faced by disabled persons in education, suggestions to
eliminate and/or reduce them.
Part Four - directory of more than 900 educators with disabilities who agreed to be
listed as resource persons.
Part Five - print, nonprint, and organizational resources relating to handicapped
persons in education.
- Campaign for Disability Employment - CDE: A collaborative effort between several disability and business organizations that seek to promote positive employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
- Department of Justice - How to file an ADA complaint with the US Dept. of Justice. Offers free mediation.
- Employment Measures for Persons with Disabilities: Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 2012.
- Enhancing Diversity: Educators with Disabilities Published book, addresses the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of persons with disabilities who seek and receive entry into professional life as educators.
- JAN's (Job Accommodation Network) list of accommodations specific to teachers with disabilities
- Negotiating the Tensions in the Preparation of Teachers with Disabilities available through ERIC. The most significant barriers preservice teachers with disabilities face are negative attitudes, accessibility issues, and employment opportunities. Suggests guidelines to assist teacher educators in preparation of teachers with disabilities.
- Resource Guide for Educators with Disabilities, available through ERIC. Organized chronologically according to typical stages of career preparation and employment.
and obtaining certification. Highlights specific barriers that disabled persons have
faced in the process and suggests possible solutions.
Part Two - coping strategies used by disabled educators in the classroom.
Part Three - barriers faced by disabled persons in education, suggestions to
eliminate and/or reduce them.
Part Four - directory of more than 900 educators with disabilities who agreed to be
listed as resource persons.
Part Five - print, nonprint, and organizational resources relating to handicapped
persons in education.
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- Relationship of Disability Rights Laws to Education Majors and Teachers with Disabilities - PDF
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College Funding for Teachers with Disabilities
- College Grants Database: List of grants and scholarships available for students with disabilities.
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Information About Teachers with Disabilities
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Information About Teachers with Disabilities
- Hoagies Gifted Education list of articles available through ERIC (Educational Information Resource Center) on the subject of teachers with disabilities.
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Inspiring Teachers with Disabilities
Crossing Barriers, Changing Stereotypes, Promoting Positive Change
- Jill Kinmont Booth One of the first K-12 teachers with a disability in the 1960's - paving the way for the rest of us "Other Side of the Mountain"
- Brad Cohen K-12 teacher paving the way for more teachers with disabilities "Front of the Class"
- Temple Grandin Instructor Colorado State University "Temple Grandin"
- John Nash Noble prize winner and mathematics instructor at Princeton "A Beautiful Mind"
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