Special Education Resources
Key Publications
Additional Resources
2008/2009 Brochure: Resources to Support Students with Diverse Learning Needs (1.6 MB)
Supporting Positive Behaviour in Alberta Schools (2008)
This three-part resource provides information, strategies, stories from schools, and sample tools for systematically teaching, supporting and reinforcing positive behaviour. The integrated system of school-wide classroom management and individual student support is designed to provide school staff with effective strategies to improve behavioural outcomes in their school.
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Building on Success: Helping Students Make Transitions from Year to Year (2006)
This resource provides sample ideas and templates for creating a learner profile that students, teachers and parents can use as part of the transition planning process. A print version, with the accompanying CD–ROM, is available for purchase.
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Focusing on Success: Teaching Students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2006)
This resource provides classroom teachers with information and practical strategies they can use to better meet the needs of students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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Handbook for Aboriginal Parents of Children with Special Needs (2000)
This handbook provides First Nations and Inuit parents with information about their rights and responsibilities regarding the education of their children identified with special education needs, as well as the education supports and services available to them.
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Our Treasured Children (1999)
This video complements the Handbook for Aboriginal Parents of Children with Special Needs. It highlights intergenerational stories from members of the Aboriginal community.
Individualized Program Planning (2006) 
A revision of Book 3 of the Programming for Students with Special Needs series, this comprehensive resource provides information and sample strategies that teachers can use to develop and implement an effective and student-focused individualized program plan (IPP).
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The Journey: A Handbook for Parents of Children Who Are Gifted and Talented (2004)
This handbook offers information and strategies to help parents nurture their child's learning and emotional well-being at home, at school and in the community.
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The Learning Team: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs (2003)
This handbook offers information and strategies for parents of children with special needs who want to be meaningfully involved in their children's education.
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Make School Work for You (2001)
A resource for junior and senior high students who want to be more successful learners. It includes information and strategies to help students know about themselves, get organized, make every class count, get along with others, do well on tests and projects, and stay motivated. It is a companion to Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities and The Parent Advantage. It has an accompanying teacher guide and an audio CD set to support students with reading difficulties.
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Our Words, Our Ways: Teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit Learners (2006)
This resource offers information and sample strategies that classroom teachers can use to help their Aboriginal students to be successful learners. It provides information on Aboriginal cultures and perspectives, and discusses the importance of family and community involvement. One chapter provides insights and suggestions for teaching First Nations and Inuit students who have learning disabilities.
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The Parent Advantage: Helping Children Become More Successful Learners at Home and School (1998)
Produced in collaboration with the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta, this resource offers practical strategies parents can use to help their children develop better organizational, reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, test-taking and project skills. French language version is also available.
Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2003)
This resource provides basic knowledge about this spectrum of disabilities, implications for educational programming and strategies for providing appropriate programming for students with autism spectrum disorders.
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Teaching Students with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Building Strengths, Creating Hope (2004)
This resource provides information on what FASD is, key considerations for planning effective education programs, and strategies for creating a positive classroom climate, organizing for instruction and responding to students' individual needs.
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Unlocking Potential: Key Components of Programming for Students with Learning Disabilities (2002)
This resource provides information to assist in developing and monitoring programming for students with learning disabilities. It includes sample strategies, suggested outcomes and connections to other Alberta Learning resources for each of the following nine components of programming for students with learning disabilities: collaboration, meaningful parent involvement, identification and assessment, ongoing assessment, individualized program plans, transition planning, self-advocacy, accommodations and instruction.
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Other books in the Programming for Students with Special Needs series
- Teaching Students Who Are Gifted and Talented (2000)
- Teaching Students with Emotional Disorders and/or Mental Illness (2000)
- Teaching Students With Visual Impairments (1996)
- Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities (1996)
- Teaching for Student Differences (1995)
- Essential and Supportive Skills for Students with Developmental Disabilities (1995)
- Teaching Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (1995)
