Resource Guide:
Teaching the Exceptional Learner
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- National Association of Special Education Teachers
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
- U.S. Department of Education
- IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- The Center on Secondary Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Council for Learning Disabilities—Research to Practice Corner
- IRIS Resource Locator
- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
- Special Education Resources for General Educators
- LD Online
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Early childhood education
- Education, Elementary
- Education, Secondary
- Educational Psychology
- Exceptional children
- Behavior disorders in children
- Attention-deficit-disordered children
- Attention-deficit-disordered youth
- Language disorders
- Reading disability
- Dyslexia
- Dyslexic children
- Gifted children -- Education
- Children with disabilities -- Education
- Deaf -- Education
- Blind -- Education
- Developmentally disabled children
- Children with social disabilities
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Focus on Exceptional Children
- Exceptionality Education International
- Insights on Learning Disabilities
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Learning Disabilities -- A Contemporary Journal
- Learning Disability Quarterly
- The Gifted Child Today
- Journal of Secondary Gifted Education
- Journal for the Education of the Gifted
- Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
- Communication Disorders Quarterly
- Annals of Dyslexia
- Dyslexia
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Transforming Special Education Practices | LC 3981 .T73 2012 |
| Exceptional Learners: An Introduction to Special Education | LC 3981 .H34 2009 |
| How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical techniques, strategies, and interventions | LC 4713 .R54 2005 |
| Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD: A quick reference guide for parents and teachers | LC 4713.2 .Z45 2000 |
| Challenging Gifted Children | LC 3993.9 .W43 1996 |
| Understanding Dyslexia | LC 4709 .H46 1995 |
| The Gift of Dyslexia: Why some of the smartest people can't read, and how they can learn | LB 1050.5 .D36 1994 |
| How Deaf Children Learn: What parents and teachers need to know | eBook |
| S.T.E.M. Education: Strategies for teaching learners with special needs | eBook |
| General and Special Education Inclusion in an Age of Change: Role of professionals involved | eBook |
| Giftedness 101 | eBook |
| Supporting the Child of Exceptional Ability at Home and School | eBook |
| Creatively Gifted Students Are Not Like Other Gifted: Research, theory, and practice | eBook |