Assistive Technology in Action (PACER): Multiple short videos that offer real-world examples of how innovative AT is making a difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities. (4 minutes each)

5 Myths About Assistive Technology (Understood.org): Is it “cheating” to use assistive technology (AT) like dictation and text-to-speech? Does it give kids an unfair advantage? Hear from Jamie Martin, assistive technology consultant, on these and other common myths about AT tools. (3:46 minutes)

Introduction to Assistive Technology (Center on Technology and Disability): Short video outlining basic topics and concepts for using assistive technology with students with disabilities. (5 minutes)

AFB Envisions a World of No Limits for Children with Visual Impairments (American Foundation for the Blind): AFB’s goal is to provide you with the information you need to learn about available technology and even discover new ways to use technology to enhance your everyday life. To that end, we have created some captioned, audio-described videos that show important categories of assistive technology in action.

Resources on AT for Families (Center on Technology and Disability): This webinar, presented by PACER Center, gives an introduction to finding helpful resources from the Center on Technology and Disability (CTD) to support families. Information covered includes topic areas, types of resources, and tips for navigating and searching the CTD website. The webinar was created as a resource for professionals at parent centers, but may also be useful for family members wishing to learn more about accessing CTD resources. (40 minutes)

Understanding Assistive Technology: Simply Said (PACER Simon Technology Center): The definition of Assistive Technology presented by the PACER Simon Technology Center. (2:33 minutes)

Crisis Planning and Children’s Challenging Behaviors: Making a Plan That Works (PACER): Webinar is for educators, mental health providers, community support staff and other professionals who would like more information on crisis planning. It covers some key features of proactive crisis plans, what we should know about challenging behaviors before developing a crisis plan, and questions to ask when considering a child’s escalating challenging behaviors. (54 minutes)

Five Tips For Parents of Young Children: Encouraging Positive Behavior (PACER): Webinar will provide parents with tips to encourage positive behavior in their young child. It includes basic assumptions about behavior as well as the benefits of using guidance rather than punishment to teach appropriate behavior. (22 minutes)

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: Supporting Your Child at Home and in the Community (PACER): Parents are their child’s first teacher and are crucial in helping them be successful in school, at home and in the community. This video explains how Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) can be used to teach and encourage appropriate behaviors at home and in the community (7 minutes)

Tips for Talking to Youth Who Are Under Stress (PACER): This presentation is for first responders, police, youth workers and others who work with youth with disabilities to help prevent the escalation of challenging behaviors. (13 minutes)
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Understanding and Addressing Challenging Behaviors (OCALI): 13-part series based in positive behavior intervention supports, functional behavior assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning.

Understanding Challenging Behavior in Young Children (Eastern Connecticut State University): In this video, early childhood teachers, home child care providers, and experts discuss some of the possible influences of children’s behavior and how to respond objectively. (16 minutes)

Disability Rights Video Series (National Parent Center on Transition and Employment): Series of videos on "Disability Rights" from the National Parent Center on Transition and Employment.

History of the Disability Movement in the United States (PACER Center): Presentation by University of Kansas Professor Michael Wehmeyer that characterizes the history of people with disabilities, particularly people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as having 3 distinct waves. Firstly, the Professional Movement, predominant from 1850 to mid 20th century; secondly, the Parent Movement that emerged in the 1950s; and thirdly, the Self-Determination Movement. (9 minutes)

Parallels in Time: A History of Developmental Disabilities (Minnesota Department of Education): Developed by the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, this multimedia site contains an overview of the historical progress of developmental disabilities.

Building Organizational Skills and Executive Functions in Children with ADHD (NYU Langone Health): Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often struggle with organizing schoolwork, managing time, and planning projects. NYU Langone psychologist Dr. Richard Gallagher discusses techniques and best practices from our highly successful book, Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD. (31 minutes)

InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning Center on Developing Child at Harvard University: This 5-minute video provides an overview of Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System. (5 minutes)

Organization Skills for Children (Akron Children’s Hospital): Between school science projects, soccer practice, ballet lessons and the visit from Aunt Bea, today’s kids have a lot to keep straight. In this Children’s Channel video podcast, Geoffrey Putt, PsyD, director of parenting and family support at Akron Children’s Hospital, offers some tips to help parents keep their kids organized at home, at school and everywhere in between. (5 minutes)

Overcoming Academic Obstacles: From Procrastination to Perfectionism (Educational Connections): Tips, Tools, and Solutions for Academic Success. This presentation will cover organization, tools to tackle distraction, procrastination, study skills, and more! (46 minutes)

Penn State Student Disability Resources (SDR) Study Skills (8 minutes)

Study Skills 1: Research and Note-taking Skills (Center on Technology and Disability): Researching and taking notes is an important activity central to the academic lives of many teens and adults. This webinar for parents with Tara Bruss and Sarah Giffen-Hunter begins with a discussion of the purpose of note-taking and useful strategies to employ. Tools include a range of technology supports for taking notes while listening to information and instruction, taking notes while reading, and organizing the information. (1 hour)

Support for Students with Executive Functioning Deficits: Barbara Haas-Givler is a board certified behavior analyst and Director of Education & Behavioral Outreach at Geisinger’s Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute (ADMI). In this webinar, Ms, Haas-Givler will discuss strategies in which we can support students who have executive functioning deficits. (47 minutes)

Technologies and Strategies to Help Students Start, Focus, and Finish Strong: We expect students to have executive function skills, yet, they are rarely explicitly taught in the classroom. Many of our students with learning differences and attentional difficulties experience issues with starting, maintaining focus, and finishing tasks. Using Dr. Thomas Brown’s model of executive function, Todd Hanson from the Groves Academy will explore the processes and tools available to help in each of the areas of activation, focus, effort, emotion, memory and action. (58 minutes)

Visual Strategies for Organization and Planning (LD@School): Students who have learning disabilities and difficulties in executive functioning skill frequently struggle to keep track of the things they need for schoolwork. For many of these students, explicit teaching of strategies for organization and planning – especially VISUAL strategies – is essential to the learning process. This online professional learning video is a joint venture between the Ottawa Carleton District School Board and the Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario’s LD@school Project. Our goal is to teach educators and parents how using visual structure and supports can improve organization and planning in our students. (25 minutes)

Best Practices in Family & Community Engagement Video Series: The Best Practices in Family and Community Engagement Video Series is designed to support each program's efforts toward systemic and integrated engagement. Rooted in the Office of Head Start (OHS) Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework, the videos highlight examples of innovative approaches to engagement that foster strong relationships with families and lead to positive outcomes for children and families.
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​Introduction to Family Engagement in Education (Harvard edX): Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools. (2 minutes)

Career Possibilities – Explore/Dream (PACER Center): “Career Possibilities: Discover, Explore, Dream!” is the first in a series of webinars created to help teens explore career options and learn about assistive technology that can help them succeed at school, work, and the community. This webinar introduces teens to several online career resources that can help them identify career interest areas. (19 minutes)

College Preparation (PACER National Parent Center on Transition and Employment): 11 short videos that cover a variety of topics for students with disabilities preparing for college.

Disability Disclosure (PACER Center): This video provides a short introduction to disability disclosure for youth with disabilities in school or at work. It shows a young adult filling out an application for employment and trying to decide if he should disclose or not his disability. (3 minutes)

How Aspergers Works (PACER Center): This video offers tips to motivate your child with Asperger’s using the “Sensory Funnel.” (3 minutes)

Making Friends When You Have a Learning Disability (National Center for Learning Disabilities): Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Thomas Scholars discuss their experiences with making friends and offer tips to make social life easier for kids with learning disabilities and their parents. (5 minutes)

Making the Move to Managing Your Own Personal Assistance (National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability): Youth with disabilities discuss how they use personal assistance services (PAS) and what’s involved in finding and managing their own services. (4 minutes)

Preparing for Adulthood: Taking Charge of My Own Health Care (PACER): Four-part series. (4 minutes each)

Simply Said Series: Understanding AT, AIM materials, VR and Making SSI Work for You (PACER Center.): Simply Said is an ongoing video series designed by the PACER Center to explain complex topics in easy-to-understand language. The videos feature simple drawings that make it quick and easy to learn. This format makes this resource especially easy to share. The series covers topics from Assistive Technology to Accessible Instructional Materials. (4 minutes each)

Stress Relief Tips for People with Learning Disabilities: Having a learning disability can be stressful. In this insightful video these teens with LD explain how they cope and de-stress. National Center for Learning Disabilities. (1 minute)

Virtual College Campus Tour for Individuals with Disabilities (PACER Center): The Virtual College Campus Tour was created to help teens explore the world of post-secondary education through the comforts of home. This virtual college campus tour can help students discover and explore the many different types of higher education institutions available and answers the questions a student with a disability needs to ask to have a successful experience. (24 minutes)

What Can Medical Providers and Teachers Do To Help You Take Charge of Your Own Health Care? (PACER Center): Teens lead the discussion in PACER’s video series (6 minutes)

What does Guardianship Mean to You? (PACER Center) (3 minutes)

Close Enough (Baraboo School District): East Elementary School students explain what personal space is, and how to keep the right amount of personal space between yourself and others at school. (5 minutes)

How to Teach Your Child to Apologize (Understood): Does your child have trouble saying, “I’m sorry”? Do his apologies come across as insincere? This is a common challenge for kids who struggle with social skills. (3 minutes)

Making Friends When you have a Learning Disability (National Learning Disability Center): Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Thomas Scholars discuss their experiences with making friends and offer tips to make social life easier for kids with learning disabilities and their parents. (5 minutes)

Social Skills for Adults and Teens (Family Support Center of NJ) (42 minutes)

Social Skills Training: Making Friends in Middle School (TDSocialSkills) (3 minutes)
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Social Skills Training: Resolving Disagreements (TDSocialSkills) (2 minutes)

Social Skills Training: Taking Turns Speaking (TDSocialSkills) (2 minutes)

Teaching Individuals with ASD Skills for Building Relationships and Friendships (VCU): This webcast will provide teaching strategies for building relationships and friendships with individuals with ASD. A video demonstration of strategies with young adults and their parents will be provided. (50 minutes)

Alex on inclusion (2 minutes)

Dan Habib – Disabling Segregation (17 minutes)

Engaging Students with Learning Differences Early On  (10 minutes)

Inclusive Education Discussion Series 

Inclusive Learning – Everyone’s In (11 minutes)

The Power of Inclusive Education (3 minutes)

SWIFT Domain and Features at Henderson School (15 minutes)

Teach Special Education (5 minutes)

What is inclusion and why is it important? (5 minutes)

Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL): CELL has developed specific materials to assist parents in guiding their child’s early literacy development through the use of fun and exciting literacy learning experiences. Practitioners working with parents will also find these resources helpful. Facts, activities and videos.

Choosing “Just Right” Books (SSD): When your child chooses books to read, make sure they are the right fit. This video teaches you how can make sure your child is choosing books that aren’t too hard or too easy for them to read. And letting them choose “Just Right” books for themselves let’s them gain independence and awareness of their interests. (5:48 minutes)

Family Engagement, Language, and Literacy Webinar Series: In this webinar series, learn strategies to partner with parents and families to help their children develop language and literacy skills. Find out how to use these strategies to meet school readiness goals. (57:36 minutes)

My Time to Read: A Family Activity (SSD): This video gives tips and information on how to improve your child’s reading by making it a part of family activities. Learn about the benefits of reading together as a family. (3 minutes)

PBS Series: Launching Young Readers: This series consists of 30-minute television programs that explore the stages of reading that every child goes through. The programs feature the country’s top reading experts, look at different reading strategies, provide practical advice for parents, and interweave the personal stories of children, families, and teachers.

Reading Basics -- A Michigan Alliance for Families Webinar: Reading Basics with Mary Bechtel. (51 minutes)

Reading Tips for Students with LD (National Center for Learning Disability) (2:16 minutes)

Rhyme Time: Phonemic Awareness (SSD): This video gives tips on how to implement the important aspects of rhyming and phonemics into reading and games with children. This is one of the first building blocks to young people learning about how spoken words are made up of several individual sounds. (5:36 minutes)

Brain Games: Fun Ways to Teach Your Child Math Without Leaving the Dinner Table: Professor Ming Ming Chiu from the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education is known for helping parents find teachable math moments. Learn some of Chiu’s “Brain Games” in this video. (4:32 minutes)

How Parents Can Help Their Children in Math: Dr. Raj Shah offers examples to equip parents with approaches and strategies for creating a safe and fun math learning environment for their elementary students. (7:06 minutes)

Introduction to Fractions: Using Play-Doh to Learn (SSD): This lesson shows how you can use Play-doh as an aid to teach children about the foundations of learning fractions. Students can visualize what they are learning. And the best part is if they make a mistake, it’s just Play-doh, so they can just start over until they get it right. (5:53 minutes)

Math is Everywhere (Sesame Street): Look around: Exciting math opportunities abound! Whether you’re indoors, outdoors, or on the go, making math part of your daily routines helps your child understand that math is fun — and important. (19:54)

Mathematics and Early Childhood Development (Mind Research Institute): Researchers have found that early math education (between the ages of 3-5) is critical for cognitive growth and future learning success. (2:52 minutes)

Understanding Developmental Dyscalculia – A Math Learning Disability: Approximately 5% of children have a specific learning disability* affecting their ability to acquire even the most basic numerical and mathematical skills. This difficulty has been referred to as "developmental dyscalculia." (1:11:34 minutes)

Using the Elevator Strategy: Adding and Subtracting Decimals (SSD): The elevator strategy is a practical lesson on adding and subtracting decimals. It teaches how to place the numbers in proper vertical alignment to keep place values in order. (3:11 minutes)

Word Problems: Using the C.U.B.E. Strategy (SSD): Word problems can be overwhelming. Aside from the task of reading and figuring out how to solve the problem, students are often expected to combine several new math concepts. This video introduces the CUBE strategy, one approach for solving word problems. (4:38 minutes)

Anxiety and the Family -- Parenting Anxious Children (Yale University) (12 minutes)

Childhood & Adolescent Mental Health (PBS) (60 minutes)

Childhood Schizophrenia: What Are the First Signs? (Child Mind Institute) (3 minutes)

Children and Mental Health: Recognizing Problems Early (Cleveland Clinic) (3 minutes)

Children's Mental Health Disorders - A Journey for Parents and Children (CDC) (5 minutes)

Five Signs of Teen Depression (PBS) (3 minutes)

Improving Care for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder (Mayo Clinic) (3 minutes)

Introduction to Anxiety and Anxiety Child Anxiety Disorders (Yale University) (18 minutes)

Understanding Trauma (Formed Families Forward) (10 minutes)

What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder? (Attitude Magazine) (2 minutes)

​When Anxious Children Become Anxious Adolescents (Child Mind Institute) (3 minutes)

​ADHD Separating Fact from Fiction (National Council for Learning Disability) (7:28 seconds)

Children’s Mental Health Disorders – A Journey for Parents and Children (CDC): Meet two families and hear about their experiences living with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Tourette Syndrome. (5 minutes)

Does Your Child With a Learning Disability Have Trouble Making Friends? (National Council for Learning Disability) (3 minutes)

Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschools (CDC) (4-5 minutes each)

Family Strategies – Show Me Careers (Employment Ready) (5 minutes)

I Wish I’d Known THIS About Learning Disabilities Sooner (National Center for Learning Disability) (3 minutes)

Inclusive Listening: Building Understanding, Supporting Collaboration (CADRE) (1 hour 13 minutes)

Learning Disabilities Expert Advice: How Can Parents Advocate To Support Their Child’s Giftedness? (National Center for Learning Disability) (2:41 minutes)

Learning Disabilities, What Are the Different Types? (National Council on Disability) (7:30 minutes)

Parent Being the Experts (PACER) (2 minutes)

Social Security Disability Claims Process (Social Security Administration): This seven-video video series explains the Social Security Administration disability insurance claims process.

Strengths of Students with Learning Disabilities and Other Disorders (National Center for Learning Disability) (8:30 minutes)

Student Privacy 101 – FERPA for Parents and Students (PACER) (4 minutes)

Tell Me About Depression (NAMI): Depression affects over 16 million American adults each year. Learn more about depression information, treatment and how to get help. (2 minutes)

What is ADHD? (National Center for Learning Disability) (7:42 minutes)

What is Dyscalculia? (National Center for Learning Disability) (7:45 minutes)

What is Dysgraphia? (National Center for Learning Disabilities) (6 minutes)

What is Dyspraxia? (National Center for Learning Disability) (5 minutes)

What is Executive Function? (National Center for Learning Disability) (5 minutes)

What is Nonverbal Learning Disability? (National Center for Learning Disability) (6:12 minutes)

What is Visual Processing? (National Center for Learning Disabilities) (6:11 minutes)

What Should Parents Consider When Choosing a Tutor for Their Child? (National Center for Learning Disability) (2:22 minutes)

Work With Your Doctor to Understand Your Child’s Learning & Attention Issues (National Center for Learning Disability) (1:23 minutes)

Partners in Policymaking online courses

Accessing the Dream: Preparing Deaf-Blind Youth for a Self-Determined Life (PACER) (4 minutes)

411 on Disability Disclosure (National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability) (4 minutes)

Self-Determination and Self Advocacy (National Gateway to Self Determination) (5:35 minutes)

Student-Led IEPs & Youth Engagement as a Dispute Resolution Option (CADRE) (1 hour 20 minutes)

What is Self-Determination? (National Gateway to Self Determination) (2 minutes)

​What is Self-Determination and Why is it Important? (National Gateway to Self Determination) (5 minutes)

Help! I’m Going to My First IEP Meeting (PACER Center) (11:45 minutes)

At the Table: Preparing for Your First Evaluation Planning Meeting for Your Child (PACER Center) (14:56 minutes)

At the Table: Receiving the Results of Your Child’s Special Education Evaluation (PACER Center) (10:23 minutes)

At the Table: Six Areas that May Affect IEP Services for Your Child (PACER Center) (19:27 minutes)

Special Education: What Do Parents Need to Know? (PACER Center) Recorded in American Sign Language (29:18 minutes)

Helping Children with Disabilities Learn What All Children Learn (PACER Center) (13:09 minutes)

IEP Module 1: Purpose, Timeline and Meeting Consolidation (FACT MO) (4:21 minutes)

IEP Module 2: Plan and Team Members (FACT MO) (8:25 minutes)

IEP Module 3: PLAAFP Part 1 -- Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (FACT MO) (10:58 minutes)

IEP Module 4: PLAAFP Part 2 -- Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (FACT MO) (5:02 minutes)

IEP Special Education Module 5: Special Considerations (FACT MO) (18:41 minutes)

IEP Special Education Module 6: Goals (FACT MO) (9:27 minutes)

IEP Special Education Module 7: Related Services (FACT MO) (3:25 minutes)

Now Where Did I Put That? Keeping Special Education Records (PACER Center) (18:05 minutes)

Steps to Success Online Trainings (MPACT): Five-part series.

Dispute Resolution Made Easy: Using CADRE’s Newly Released Parent Guides (CADRE) (1 hour)

An Introduction to Special Education (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction) (10 minutes)

​Individualized Education Program (IEP): Preparing Students for College and Career (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction) (5:29 minutes)

Introduction to Guardianship and Alternatives (National Resource Center for Supported Decision Making) (13:35 minutes)

Introduction and Guide to Supported Decision Making (National Resource Center for Supported Decision Making): 10-video series. (3-10 minutes each)

Supported Decision-Making: Protecting Rights, Ensuring Choices (National Resource Center for Supported Decision Making)
(1 hour 39 minutes)

Career Possibilities: Discover, Explore, Dream for Teens (PACER) (19 minutes)

Disability and Poverty in America (National Disability Institute) (2 minutes)

Employment/Provide Expectations (Show Me Careers) (5 minutes)

Employment Success Stories (Show Me Careers) (5 minutes)

Family Strategies (Show Me Careers) (5 minutes)

Health Care in the Transition Plan (PACER) (4 minutes)

The Job Accommodation Network: JAN is here for YOU! (PACER) (4 minutes)

Knowing Your Options: College, Independence, and Beyond (PACER) (25 minutes)

Mapping Your Future: Creating a Personal Transition Plan (PACER) (22 minutes)

Problems and Solutions When Dealing with Transportation When you have a Disability (National Gateway to Self Determination) (8 minutes)

Skills to Pay the Bills (PACER): Seven-part series

Supplemental Security Income SSI and SSI Work Incentives You Can Make an Informed Choice About Work (National Disability Institute) (60 minutes)

Transition Tips: How Parents Can Help Their Youth Find Employment Success (PACER): Five-part series (1 minute each)

Understanding Measurable Postsecondary Goals in the IEP (PACER) (5 minutes)

What Does it Take to be College and Career Ready? (Transition Coalition) (60 minutes)

What You Need to Know: Transitioning to Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities (Center for Technology and Disability) (60 minutes)

Work Early, Work Often (PACER): Three-part series (3 minutes each)