Free and Low Cost Resources for Teaching Kids with Learning Disabilities

Free, Low Cost Teaching Resources for Children with Learning Disabilities

Free and Low Cost Teaching Resources

Sometimes the high cost of specialty teaching materials for students with learning disabilities makes it difficult for parents and teachers to provide educational and entertaining teaching experiences. Fortunately, there are many quality resources available at low or no cost right here on About.com. There are many excellent resources on the web as well. Here are several you and your child are sure to enjoy.

Free Audiobooks

• Free Audiobook Library for Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading
• Improve Reading Comprehension - Improve Your Child's Reading with Audio Books
• Free MP3 Children's Audiobooks
• While you're at it, check out these Ideas to Encourage Reluctant Readers. You'll find tips to help your child enjoy audiobooks and other types of text.

Free Academic Resources for Teens and Adult Students -

• Free Distance Learning Resources - These free web resources can help you make save time, save money, and succeed in distance learning courses and can supplement regular classwork.
• Resources for Free Homework Help and Answers to Your Questions
• Free Literature Guides Online -Literature guides are wonderful for teens and college aged students with learning disabilities or who are simply pressed for time. Literature guides offer condensed synopsis of books and and analytical articles to help readers understand complex literary works.
• Ways to Save on College Textbooks.
• One of my personal favorite resources for low cost textbooks and other resources is Questia.com. Questia offers thousands of online high school and college level textbooks, research articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, and more. They offer the complete collection or individual collections for a lower price. The entire collection for one year, however, is about the same price I paid for a one graduate school textbook. All the collections are searchable, and there are online paper writing tools that make references and footnotes a snap. Questia also offers a free trial to see if the service is for you.

Free Tutoring Resources

• Does Your Child's School Offer Free Tutoring -How to find out if your child's school is required to provide free tutoring under "No Child Left Behind."
• Free online tutoring from Mindsprinting.com. This site provides assessment to test your child's skills and creates an automated program of study based on your state's standards and assessment results. Multiple grade levels are available.

Free Online Educational Games

• IBM Offers Free Online Educational Game - Science fun with a Serious Mission
• Free literacy and reading books and games on Sillybooks.net.
• Children with autism and other types of learning disabilities often love working with computers but usually need help using them. To use the Internet, most preschool and elementary aged children need full or partial assistance. This free grandfather-developed, kid-tested browser can help.

Free Downloadable Flashcards from the Learning Disabilities Site

Ways to Develop Early Sight Words at Home includes free printable kitchen words flashcards.

Preschool sight word flashcards.

First grade sight words.

Second grade sight words.

Third grade sight words.