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.
Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts
Located in the College of Education on The University of Texas at Austin campus, this center is committed to providing leadership to educators in effective reading instruction through its diversified research, technical assistance, and professional development projects.
Verizon Reads is the umbrella organization for Verizon's national literacy platform. Established in 1999, Verizon Reads is dedicated to the fight for a more literate America through meaningful programs that create awareness, raise funds, and encourage collaboration among literacy providers.
Vermont Folklife Center: Refugee Experiences
These educational resources for grades Pre-K-12 focus on the question, "What does it mean to be a refugee?"
Viet-AID's mission is to build a strong Vietnamese community and a vibrant Fields Corner through the following measures: promoting civic engagement and community building; building affordable housing and commercial development; providing small business technical assistance and micro-enterprise development; and offering high quality child care services.
Vietnamese American Civics Association (VACA)
Founded in 1984 as a Mutual Assistance Association (MAA), VACA provided an array of services designed to help Vietnamese refuges and immigrants to address daily living needs, successfully adjust to a new country, culture and language and achieve economic self-sufficiency. Services offered by VACA include: naturalization assistance, ESL, employment services, social services and health education.
Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA)
Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) whose main goals are promoting harmony and cooperation amongst Vietnamese Americans, especially in the fields of Culture and Science, and providing a multi-faceted environment where young Vietnamese American professionals can exchange ideas, share skills, and participate in the building of a strong Vietnamese-American community.
Virginia Department of Education: Strategies for Mathematics Instruction in the LEP Classroom
A resource guide that includes information on language acquisition, challenges to ELLs and teachers, instructional strategies, assessment and a list of resources published in 2004. Due to the age of this document some of the links are dead, but overall the information is very solid.
Visual Thinking Strategies Model
A short article on the creator of Visual Thinking Strategies, Abigail Housen, and the theory behind the model's success.
Vocabulary Activity: Prediction and Confirmation
An activity for vocabulary prediction and confirmation featured on the Florida Center for Instructional Technology website.
Website with lists of common English prefixes, roots, and suffixes and their meanings from the South Hampton College of Long Island University.
Voces del Corazón: Voices from the Heart
The National Writing Project (NWP) presents a Literacy Night event where students read, write, and reconnect with their families. This article provides some guidelines on how to prepare a creative and inviting environment for a positive reading experience.
