COVID-19 Resources
Decoding Dyslexia-NJ’s COVID-19 Resources
Please note that Decoding Dyslexia-NJ does not officially endorse, represent or has any legal connection any of the resources listed below. This list of resources was compiled by several Decoding Dyslexia groups across the U.S. with the hope that it might help parents, educators and students with distance/online learning during this unprecedented and stressful time. Stay safe, stay well and stay strong!
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- New Jersey Resources & Information
- Technology How To Guides
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Resources
- Assistive Technology for Students
- Academic Online Resources, including reading, K-12
- Tutoring, including online options
- Online Speech Language Therapy
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Online Orton-Gillingham Training
- Reading Research Centers
- Facebook Pages & Groups on related topics
New Jersey Resources & Information (including a Federal link)
- NJ Dept of Education COVID-19 Letter re: Services to Students with Disabilities
- Education Law Center
- NJ Department of Education Website Dyslexia page
- SPAN Parent Advocacy Network
- NJDOE Webinar on COVID-19 Response — YouTube recording
- NJDOE Webinar on COVID-19 Response — PowerPoint downloaded
- Federal Education COVID-19 Resources
Technology How-To Guides
Teaching / Feedback Tools
- Math Share (Allows for students to type math solutions)
- Document Cameras
- WACOM Drawing Tool
- Closed Caption on Zoom
- Closed Caption Google Hangouts
Online White Boards
Mental health and well-being of our children during this time
- Colorado Public Radio: Tens Under Stress: What’s Happening in the Teen Brain
- Family Therapist Craig Knippenberg + other Mental Health Experts Tuesday 9:30 MST (Ideas, strategies, and Q&A about parenting during the coronavirus pandemic)
- Wired and Connected
- BC Parent: 12 Survival Tips
- Colorado Parent: Understanding Impulse Control
Assistive Technology for Students
Academic Online Resources, K-12
- Amplify
- IXL Personalized Learning K-12: Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
- Spreadsheet of companies offering free subscriptions
- Cool Cat Teacher Resources
- Readworks Family and Remote Learning
- Readworks for Educators
- Make your own games! (Recommended: Beekeeper, Bingo, Matching, Memory Match, Rapidfire, TicTacToe, Spin to Win)
- OG Card deck
- Rosner Program
- org list of COVID-19 resources
- International Dyslexia Association (IDA) COVID-19 Resources, Relief Fund, Webinar Series & Video Library
ELL/ESL Help
For More Academic Sources by Age Group — Click below for age section
Early Childhood
Elementary School
Middle / High Schoo
Tutoring (Off-site links)
- Professionals who provide services (i.e., tutoring, evals, therapy, etc.) to individuals with learning differences (International Dyslexia Association site: https://dyslexiaida.org/)
- ONLINE TUTORING Students From Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley Give Free Tutoring To K-12 Students
- ONLINE TUTORING Learning Ovations
Online Speech Language Therapy
Professional Development Opportunities (free as of Spring 2020): |
- Really Great Reading Company Webinars
- Microsoft Learning Tools
- Readworks / Dr Margie Gillis CALT
- Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
- Mind Play
- Neuhaus Consumables
- Kendore Learning
Professional Development Opportunities (always free): |
Online Orton-Gillingham Training
Reading Research Centers
Facebook Pages & Groups on related topics
Dyslexia & Related Facebook Pages:
- Decoding Dyslexia-NJ
- Learning Disabilities Association of New Jersey Inc. (LDANJ)
- NJ Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN)
- Also Search for other Decoding Dyslexia Facebook Pages (there’s one in every U.S. state)
- International Dyslexia Association
- Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA national)
- Bright Solutions for Dyslexia
- Wilson Language
- Dyslexia Training Institute
- Learning Ally
- Bookshare
- The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia
- Made By Dyslexia
- Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
- UM DyslexiaHelp
Dyslexia Facebook Groups:
Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD & other LD Facebook Groups:
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NCTQ: "The three worst schools for effective reading instruction are Kean, St. Peter’s, and Stockton University. The three best are Rutgers-New Brunswick, Seton Hall, and College of New Jersey. Yet, “none of the 10 educator preparation programs in New Jersey that NCTQ reviewed in the 2023 Teacher Prep Review provide aspiring teachers with adequate coursework in the science of reading.”![]()
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The NJ analysis concludes, "NJ is missing an opportunity to use a readily available tool to tackle alarmingly high rates of illiteracy."
"The secret to spelling is understanding the “how” and “why” of language. Most words have patterns based on the sounds they make." ~ Dev Shah, ninth-grader and winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee ![]()
Opinion | I won the National Spelling Bee. This is what it takes to master spelling.
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No, I didn’t memorize the entire dictionary. The spelling bee demands much more than that.
For decades, thousands of schools have determined whether children have a learning disability using a method that researchers have deemed scientifically unsound and discriminatory: "the scientific consensus against the discrepancy model has grown." Kids do not get the reading instruction they need early enough, and sometimes not at all. #dyslexia #whatsinyourdistsrict ![]()
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A Flawed Way of Diagnosing Dyslexia Leaves Thousands of Kids without Help
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Changing how dyslexia is diagnosed could help many more children learn to read
"More than half of states use a weak licensure test that fails to accurately signal whether teachers understand reading instruction." New Jersey is one of them.![]()
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Putman, H. (2023). False assurances: Many states' licensure tests don't signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction. Washington, DC: National Council on Teacher Quality
ATTN NJ Families and Educators: Share this new research brief with your local librarians "Engaging Communities in Equity-Centered Research: Librarians as Partners in the Science of Reading" ![]()
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It presents a great opportunity to encourage your librarians to learn about the Science of Reading in order to inform their youth services. Download at fcrr.org/sites/g/files/upcbnu2836/files/media/PDFs/village/briefs/BNB%20Research%20Brief.pdf![]()
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If you have a library interested to dive deeper into the SoR, let us know if you need help finding them resources to get started!
Sharing again -- this study is ongoing through the spring so do your part for science 😉 ! ATTN Individuals with Dyslexia - Ages 18-35: Rutgers University Newark is conducting a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study looking at the Brain Basis of Reading. PAID Volunteers are needed. Visit [rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/.../SV_6PEyKQHMVwBTg8K…](t.co/hpD6uoWo2s) to see if you are eligible. TY!
Attention educators in Hunterdon, Somerset, and Warren Counties, please click here for your opportunity for RAPID training for literacy knowledge and best practices from the New Jersey Department of Education. ![]()
ATTN NJ Families! Don't miss next week's free online workshop on NJ Tiered Systems of Supports - Early Reading. On Thursday, November 2, 2023 from 7 - 8 PM EDT, SPAN will present a webinar titled, "Preparing for Parent-Teacher Conferences: Discussing Early Reading."![]()
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This important webinar will highlight the key predictive reading skills for students in kindergarten through grade 3 and will share ways to effectively communicate with teachers around your child's early reading skills development.![]()
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Preparing for Parent-Teacher Conferences: Discussing Early Reading![]()
Thursday, November 2, 2023; 7 - 8 PM EDT![]()
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REGISTER NOW: spanadvocacy-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdeqtrTopHdI3e1rg7-jvhpktQ-J12OpB#/registration![]()
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Also, help us spread the word... families will benefit from the information presented!
Timeline photosFree virtual event for educators and parents! Join us on Tuesday, October 24 at 7 p.m. ET for the 2023 Fall Community Lecture with featured speaker Amy Margolis, PhD, presenting "Psychological Components of Reading Disabilities: Novel Interventions to Address Anxiety and Executive Functioning".![]()
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