TEL Resources

The American Bar Association's Commission on Disability Rights has created this resource to increase awareness of implicit biases, both in general and in particular with regard to persons with disabilities, and to offer techniques to help mitigate these biases.

While the word “trauma” has become something of a colloquial term, the chronic stress associated with severe and ongoing health and education problems is not related to low-level stressors such as watching a scary movie or getting in a fight with your best friend. As school districts explore trauma-informed practices or work to develop trauma-sensitive schools, a new understanding of trauma is emerging.

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association provides this communication bill of rights

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network provides this guide for students on their communication rights and the ways schools sometimes take away students' communication rights.

To get special education services for a child, you have to follow a legal process. The most important law for this process is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This page allows you to explore different types of resources for students with various behaviors, learning, and skills.

This resources outlines the key principles in the IDEA law.

Programs for young children with disabilities play a significant role in early childhood education and development, which is particularly salient when it comes to promoting school readiness. This resource connects aspects of IDEA with early childhood education.

This page allows you to explore different sections of the IDEA Statute.

The IDEA’s disability terms and definitions guide how States in their own turn define disability and who is eligible for a free appropriate public education under special education law. The definitions of these specific disability terms from the IDEA regulations are shown beneath each term listed below.

IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Act is explored with all its major legislation. There is a definition of the individuals with disabilities act as well a general summary of IDEA. This video does not compartmentalize the Individuals with Disabilities Act through the years such as 1990, 1997, and 2004 (IDEIA).

"You'll start with a big-picture guide to creating an inclusive culture in your classroom and school, with invaluable guidance on key topics like team collaboration, universal design for learning, co-teaching, social-emotional supports, and accommodations. Then you'll get 40 specific, teacher-tested strategies to modify your curriculum for students who work below grade level."

"Picture one guidebook that gives you the fundamentals of inclusion, proven practices for teaching everyone, and dozens of student profiles and sample lesson plans. That's what you'll get in Picture Inclusion!, your ultimate theory-to-practice guide to teaching every learner in a diverse inclusive classroom. (Grades K-5)"

This practical guide explains how to raise the rigor for students with special needs so they can achieve higher levels of learning.