Recommended Links
The following are links to recommended organizations and web sites that provide information on learning disabilities, ADHD, and other issues.
You can also see this list organized by type of organization, by focus, or by audience.
Institute for Connectivity in the Americas
The ICA strives to create a true community in the Western Hemisphere by connecting the citizens of the Americas and promoting hemispheric integration through innovative uses of interactive communication technologies. The website is also available in Spanish and French.
Institute for Educational Leadership
IEL equips leaders to make a difference by expanding horizons, linking practice and scholarship to policy, and making connections across ideas and individuals, problems and opportunities. IEL offers leadership programs and support for collaborative networking through the National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform.
Institute for Learning and Development
Research ILD is a non-profit organization that leverages research and technology to develop and disseminate research-based multi-media educational materials. It aims to help children, adolescents, and adults with learning and attention differences develop persistence and resilience, and to attain success in school and in life.
Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Education Research and Improvement, this page offers manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews and summaries of outstanding publications, and announcements of conferences in urban education. Many of the resources deal with language minority students.
Institute on Community Integration
ICI's mission is to improve the community services and social supports available to individuals with developmental and other disabilities, and their families, throughout the United States and abroad.
The mission of the Institute on Disabilities is that, in partnership with people with disabilities, families and allies from diverse cultures, they work to change systems so that people can live, learn, work and play in the communities of their choice.
Interactive Classroom Activities
Provides ideas for a variety of interactive student activities, such as information gap, ordering and sorting, problem-solving, and conversation grids.
Interesting Things for ESL Students
A fun study site for English language learners with word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs, and much more.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Intermountain TESOL, an affiliate of International TESOL, provides professional development for ESL teachers in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.
International Center of Indianapolis: Transitioning Refugees*
Transitioning Refugees: Connections at the Crossroads — A Resource Guide for Service Providers and Volunteer Mentors
International Children's Digital Library
An online library whose goal is to collect and make available the best historical and contemporary children's books from around the world, in their original language.
International Children's Digital Library
This digital library hosts a collection of books from around the world. Ultimately, this organization hopes to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature available from the world community.
International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is an international organization that concerns itself with the complex issues of dyslexia. The IDA membership consists of a variety of professionals in partnership with people with dyslexia and their families. The IDA actively promotes effective teaching approaches and related clinical educational intervention strategies for people with dyslexia. We support and encourage interdisciplinary research. We facilitate the exploration of the causes and early identification of dyslexia and are committed to the responsible and wide dissemination of research based knowledge.
International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and treatment of the learning disability, dyslexia. The International Dyslexia Association actively promotes effective teaching approaches and related clinical educational intervention strategies for dyslexics. IDA supports and encourages interdisciplinary study and research, facilitates the exploration of the causes and early identification of dyslexia and is committed to the responsible and wide dissemination of research-based knowledge.
International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council
The International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) accredits quality Multisensory Structured Language Education training courses. Accredited courses meet IMSLEC criteria and instructional program standards for preparing specialists in Multisensory Structured Language Education.
International Reading Association
The International Reading Association is a professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. IRA members include classroom teachers, reading specialists, consultants, administrators, supervisors, university faculty, researchers, psychologists, librarians, media specialists, and parents.
International Reading Association: ELL Resources
The International Reading Association suggests resources for educators to meet the needs of English-language Learners (ELLs), including recommended reading, lesson plans, and literacy links.
Links to information on relief efforts in various countries around the world.
