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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