If you work with special education students who are deaf and you need to learn sign language, you may want to get an iPod Touch or an iPhone, because there is a great application to learn sign language: iSign. You can use it to learn the language or you can use it as a phrase book to communicate sporadically with deaf students. The phrase book is animated and comes with close to 300 words. It is well worth the price of $3.99 on the App Store.

“All kinds of minds” is a very useful collection of documents and information for kids who are learning differently. It presents learning disabilities in a very positive way. The online parents toolkit is great with sections on mathematics, reading, writing and attention. It includes firsthand experiments that simulate visual and auditory distractions for parents and teachers to truly understand what it is to learn with a disability. For each condition, the basics are given and the difficulties are described. Strategies on how to cope with the difficulties are provided as well as a list of resources. The site is constantly updated with news and recent content. This is a web resource that should be added to your bookmark no matter if you work in a special education classroom or in a regular classroom.