Visual Recipes

Cooking is a favorite activity in many life skills and severe special needs classrooms. Here are some links to websites with picture recipes.

Online

• Adapted Learning search for recipe
  
• Boardmaker Recipes
  
• Bry Back Manor
• Cooking in the Classroom (scroll all the way down)
• Making Learning Fun
• Nellie Edge
  
• Non-Reader Recipes
• Recipes to Reading ($)
  
• Speaking of Speech
• Symbol World
  
• Tinsnips
  
• VisualRecipes.Com

Make Your Own Custom Picture Recipes

Books ($)

• A Picture Cookbook
  
• Visual Recipes for the Non-Reader
  

Special Needs Clothes, Shoes and Accessories

Clothes

• Able Apparel (clothing protectors)
  
• Adaptations by Adrian
• Armbraces (clothing protectors, winter gear, shoes)
  
• Bodysuit.com (body suits are great for kiddos who get their hands into their briefs)
• Colia and Co
  
• Easy Access Clothing
• Independent You
  
• Jon and Company
  
• Mini-Miracles (Canada)
• Special Clothes
• Wardrobe Wagon
  

Shoes

• Hatchback AFO Shoes (These things are the best! Any parent who springs for them gets my vote!)
• Keeping Pace AFO Shoes
  
• Soft Star Shoes Custom Made Sandals or Moccs
• The Wide Shoes work well with AFOs

Socks and Liners

• AFO Socks
• Comfort Products
• Creative Care
  
• Smart Knit AFO Liners
  

Temperature Control Clothing/Accessories

• Arctic Heat
• Body Cooling
  
• Cool Sport
• Glacier Tek
• Polar Products

Body Jacket Undershirt (TLSO Sock)

• Creative Care
• Royal Knit

Chewable Jewelry

• Chewlery
• Dr. Bloom's Jewelry
• Smart Mom Jewelry/Theething Bling

See also G-tube clothes.

Using Unique?

Some of us at the TLWMSN Ning have been discussing the best way to share adaptations, ideas and extensions of Unique Curriculum materials for learners with severe special needs. Should we use the Ning? A new Unique Curriculum Ning? A wiki? Adapted Learning? A Google or Yahoo Group? Something else? What do you thing? You can comment here on this post or log onto the Ning.

Also here are the Unique topics for this school year so we can start planning (especially for alternative assessment):

School Year 2009-2010

Subject	K-2	3-4	5-7	8-12
September: Government	This is My School	We Have Leaders	We Live in the United States	I Am a US Citizen
October: Life Science	Animals in Their Homes	Animals and Plants Around Us	What is an Ecosystem?	Knowing our Ecosystem
November: Geography	City and Country	Traveling Around	Getting to Know the United States	Places to Live and Work
January: Physical Science	See It, Feel It, Describe It	Sorting for Recycling	Combining and Cooking	Everyday Energy
February: People In Society	I Live in a Community	Communities Near and Far	It's a Big World	Who are the People In the USA?
March: Science and Technology	Tools at School	Technology in the Community	Technology in Our Lives	Tools That Help Us Every Day
April: Citizenship	We All Work Together	I Can Make Good Choices	What is a Good Citizen?	I Work in My Community
May: Earth Science	I Can Help the Earth	Water, Water, Everywhere	Caring for Our Good Earth	Recycle and Reuse Our Resources

PISP Website

You are going to want to give yourself plenty of time to explore the PISP website because it is chock full of rich resources. For example, any one section of the Training and Inservice pages you will find dozens of amazing PDF files that will offer you valuable information or allow you to better teach a trainings for others. Topics range from IEPS to assesment to AT to vision and more. Similarly there are learning modules which can direct your professional development process. There are instructions to create all sorts of participation kits to inhance meaningful inclusion and a thorough FAQS section about many different areas of intensive special education from freeding to behavior and there are some instructional videos about these topics as well.

New Activities at Help Kidz Learn

Help Kidz Learn has added three new activities. The first is a mouse, mouse emulator, touch screen or interactive white board accessible coloring book. Next there is a mouse, mouse emulator, touch screen, interactive white board or switch accessible bubble popping game. Finally there is a mouse, mouse emulator, touch screen or interactive white board accessible piano.

Photo Cuff Bracelets

These hip bracelets are for sale at Shanalogic. They hold four photos or for our purposes picture symbols. They come in these glitter styles, blue, green, crean or black with embelishments, green or blue with a bold accent, and a very masculine black or brown studded style.They could be a very stylish and cool way to bring some low tech communication or visual support to our students. They could be worn by teachers, aides, parents or students themselves.

Web Sites for Teaching Reading

• AAC and Literacy
  
• Building Language for Literacy
• Free Reading
  
• Leading to Reading
• Literacy Center
  
• Literactive
  
• Mighty Book
• Phonics Play
  
• Reading Rockets
  
• Roy the Zebra
• Starfall Reading