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Links:
For Teens With Communication Disorders
Assessment and Diagnosis:
Guidelines for Documentation of a Learning Disability in Adolescents and Adults
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/postsecondary/ahead_guidelines.html
Advocating for Yourself:
Learning Disabilities and the Law
After High School: An Overview for Students
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/legal_legislative/latham_ld.html
Self-Advocacy in Educational Settings
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/adult/block_selfadvocacy.html
Self-Instruction:
EPS
(Educators Publishing Service)
EPS Workbooks are workbooks that help teach reading methods for language-based learning differences.
A sampling of those for which no formal training is required:
Starting Over
Grade 9-Adults
The text is a combined teaching manual and student textbook for reading,
writing, spelling, vocabulary, and handwriting.
Advanced Language Tool Kit
Grade K-Adult
For older students, the Advanced Language Tool Kit provides an overview of the structure, organization, and sound units needed to develop advanced reading and spelling skills.
Literacy Program
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
Grade 9-Adults
This one year course consists of one-hour videotaped lessons accompanied by student workbooks, designed for high school students and adults who read below a sixth-grade level.This multisensory literacy program teaches the alphabet, reading, cursive writing, spelling, and listening comprehension, with frequent review activities.
The Gillingham Manual
Remedial Training for Students with Specific Disablity in Reading,
Spelling and Penmanship. The Manual teaches a multisensory phonics technique: covers reading and spelling, training for older students,
acquiring familiarity with sound symbols,writing, spelling patterns and generalizations, handwriting and dictionary technique. Appropriate for older students and adults as well as for younger children.
http://www.epsbooks.com/html/training.asp
Transition Transition to Secondary Education
Navigating the Maze for a Teen with Disabilities - an article by Maryann B. Hunsberger http://www.parentingteens.com/specialneeds.shtml
Resumé
Writing for Teens and Other First-time Job Hunting Tips by Lisa Frederiksen Bohannon. http://www.parentingteens.com/resume.shtml
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