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Supporting specific needs: ADHD, dyslexia, autism, gifted, twice-exceptional, and sensory and health needs.

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Supporting Students with ADHD
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students with ADHD are not choosing to be inattentive or impulsive, their brains regulate attention and impulse differently.

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Gifted, Enrichment & Acceleration
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

High-ability learners are often the most neglected in a mixed classroom, finishing early, bored, and coasting.

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Dyslexia & Learning Differences
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Dyslexia and other learning differences are brain-based, lifelong, and common, and they are not about intelligence or effort.

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Autism in the Classroom
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Autistic students are increasingly in general education classrooms, and they thrive with predictability, clear communication, sensory awareness, and respect for how they experience the world.

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Twice-Exceptional Learners
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Some students are both gifted and have a disability, twice-exceptional, and their two sides can mask each other, so neither gets served.

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Emotional & Behavioral Needs
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students with emotional and behavioral needs often show us their struggle through behavior, and responding with only discipline rarely helps.

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Speech, Language & Communication
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Communication is the foundation of learning and connection, and students with speech, language, or communication needs can be misunderstood, underestimated, or left out.

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Sensory & Physical Disabilities
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who are blind or have low vision, deaf or hard of hearing, or have physical or mobility disabilities can fully participate and succeed with the right access and accommodations.

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Chronic Health Conditions
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students with chronic health conditions, asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, severe allergies, and more, can thrive in school with the right support, which starts with knowing their health plan, their needs, and the emergency procedures.

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Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities can learn, grow, and belong in the school community with the right support and high expectations.

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Executive Function
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Many students struggle not with the content but with the hidden skills that make learning possible: organizing, planning, starting tasks, managing time, and holding information in mind.

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Deaf & Hard of Hearing
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who are deaf or hard of hearing can thrive with full access to communication and learning, but that access rarely happens by default.

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Visual Impairment & Blindness
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who are blind or have low vision can learn everything their peers do, with materials and methods that give them access through other senses.

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Dyscalculia
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Just as dyslexia affects reading, dyscalculia is a specific learning difference that makes understanding numbers and math genuinely hard, no matter how bright or hard-working the student.

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Dysgraphia
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

For some students, the physical act of writing, and getting thoughts onto the page, is genuinely difficult because of dysgraphia, a specific learning difference.

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Augmentative & Alternative Communication
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Students who cannot rely on speech to communicate are not without something to say, they need another way to say it.

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Sensory Processing Differences
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

For some students, ordinary sensory input, noise, lights, textures, movement, is overwhelming or, conversely, something they crave.

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Working Memory Challenges
15 / 45 min or half-day · Teachers

Working memory, the ability to hold and work with information in mind, is like a mental workspace, and for some students it is very small.

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