A Teacher's Guide to Cystic Fibrosis
This guide will help teachers provide reassurance to both parents and students by working with them and CF health care professionals to maximize a student's overall learning experience, while helping to maintain his or her health.
Publisher: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
ADHD Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with ADHD and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Anxiety Disorders Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with anxiety disorders and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: June 2023
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Apraxia of Speech Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with apraxia of speech and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: October 2024
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Arizona Department of Education AT Short Term Loan Library
Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services works in partnership with Northern Arizona University Institute for Human Development Arizona Technology Access Program to make available at no cost, a wide variety of assistive technology devices, equipment, software, and professional development materials to school personnel to improve access to assistive technology.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education
Asthma Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with asthma and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: February 2024
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Asthma-Friendly Schools Initiative Toolkit
This Toolkit is a planning tool based on real-life activities that have been used in schools throughout the U.S. to create a long-term asthma management plan. The Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance that includes tools, templates and resources that aim to keep students healthy, in school and ready to learn.
Publication Date: June 2025
Publisher: American Lung Association
Cancer Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with cancer and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: February 2025
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Cardiomyopathy Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with cardiomyopathy and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: November 2024
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Celiac Disease Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with celiac disease and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: October 2024
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Cerebral Palsy Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with cerebral palsy and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: March 2021
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Classroom Strategies for Teaching Students with ADHD
This article explores evidence-based classroom strategies teachers can use to support students with ADHD. These classroom management techniques will help improve focus, manage behavior, and promote academic success while contributing to a more inclusive, supportive learning environment for all students.
Author: Rachel Barron
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: Effective Students
Comprehensive Overview of Other Health Impairments
This overview focuses on conditions and diseases that can significantly affect a child’s health and ability to function successfully in school. To be served under the OHI category, the student’s health condition must limit strength, vitality, or alertness to such a degree that the student’s educational progress is adversely affected.
Publisher: National Association of Special Education Teachers
Cystic Fibrosis Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with cystic fibrosis and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: October 2024
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Diabetes Fact Sheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with diabetes and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: September 2023
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Encircle Families
Collaboration between families and professionals results in the best possible outcomes for children with disabilities. Encircle Families is an Arizona nonprofit organization that provides free training and information to parents to help them understand their rights, roles, and responsibilities in their child’s health care and education. Training for pre-service and in-service professionals in education is available to improve collaboration between families and providers and achieve better results for children.
Publication Date: 2025
Publisher: Encircle Families
Executive Functions (Part 1): Understanding Why Some Students Struggle
This module explores executive functions and explains why many students struggle with cognitive processes related to learning. It then examines why it's critical for teachers to explicitly teach these students when, where, and how to use effective study strategies to help them succeed academically.
Publication Date: 2022
Publisher: IRIS Center Peabody College Vanderbilt University
Executive Functions (Part 2): Strategies to Improve Students’ Academic Performance
This companion to the Executive Functions (Part 1) module reiterates the importance of teachers providing explicit instruction to students with executive function difficulties on the use of effective strategies. It then overviews a number of these strategies: graphic organizers, note-taking, mnemonics, organizing materials, time management, comprehension strategies, and self-regulation strategies.
Publication Date: 2022
Publisher: IRIS Center Peabody College Vanderbilt University
Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel
This comprehensive online resource is designed to educate school personnel about how they can help students manage their diabetes effectively. The guide provides tools and resources that promote a supportive environment and equal access to educational opportunities for students with diabetes.
Publication Date: October 2023
Publisher: National Diabetes Education Program
Hemophilia Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with hemophilia and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: January 2021
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities
This revised and updated guide is relevant for general education and special education teachers. It includes four domains of evidence-based practices: Collaboration, Data-Driven Planning, Instruction in Behavior and Academics, and Intensify and Intervene As Needed. Each domain includes elementary and secondary examples of practice, research updates, and relevant resources for more information.
Publication Date: March 2024
Publishers: Council for Exceptional Children and CEEDAR Center
High-Leverage Practices Videos
These videos accompany High-Leverage Practices for Students with Disabilities and provide revised and updated information supporting the four domains with High-Leverage Practices within each domain and concrete examples to anchor and reinforce both knowledge development and application.
Publisher: CEEDAR Center
How Teachers Can Help Kids with OCD
This article provides some things to do to help students with OCD—and the class as a whole—focus on learning. Included is a video of ways to support students with OCD.
Author: Jerry Bubrick
Publication Date: Updated December 2024
Publisher: Child Mind Institute
IDEA Disability Category Tip Sheet: Other Health Impairment
This tip sheet defines other health impairment (OHI) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA) and shares strategies for success, describes how an OHI may impact students, and shares strategies for success.
Publication Date: February 2025
Publisher: PROGRESS Center at the American Institutes for Research
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: January 2020
Publisher: KidsHealth
Navigating Tourette Syndrome | An Educator’s Guide to Planning and Support
This tool kit is designed to assist educators and support staff in recognizing complex symptoms and serve as a guide towards developing effective support plans to allow children with Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Tic Disorders to thrive both socially and academically. It provides an overview of Tourette Syndrome, how to manage tics in the classroom, 504 Plans and IEPs, possible accommodations, and suggestions for assistive technologies.
Publisher: Tourette Association of America
Other Health Impairment
This fact sheet covers special help for children, specific health impairments, other health impairments not mentioned in idea’s definition, addressing medical issues, life at school, and planning for transitions.
Publication Date: July 2024
Publisher: Center for Parent Information and Resources
Seizure First Aid Training and Certification
This webpage explains free online or in-person training that provides information to increase the knowledge, skills and confidence in recognizing seizures and safely administering seizure first aid. The first aid procedures in the course reflect the standard of knowledge and current best practices.
Author: Patty Osborne Shafer
Publication Date: April 2022
Publisher: Epilepsy Foundation
Sickle Cell Disease Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with sickle cell disease and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: November 2023
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
The Role of Speech Therapy in ADHD Management
This webinar will explore the critical role of speech therapy in supporting individuals with ADHD. It highlights the various ways speech therapy can improve social communication, language processing, executive function, literacy, and self-awareness.
Author: Letizia Hendrickson
Publication Date: March 2025
Publisher: CHADD
There's Much More to OCD Than You Think
Emily Kircher-Morris and Natalia Aíza, a therapist and advocate, talk about the complexities of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). They discuss common myths and misconceptions, the OCD cycle, identifying the various types of OCD, and understanding how it often coexists with other neurodivergent conditions like ADHD and autism.
Publication Date: March 2025
Publisher: The Neurodiversity Podcast
Tics and Tic Disorders
This webpage explains tic disorders as a group of neurological conditions characterized by sudden, repetitive, involuntary movements or vocalizations. Tic disorders include provisional tic disorder, persistent (chronic) tic disorder and Tourette syndrome.
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: Cleveland Clinic
Tips for Teachers Video Series
This four-part video series offers tips for tailoring homework to make a difference, creating a positive dialogue with parents, and identifying classroom accommodations, interventions, and executive function.
Publisher: CHADD’s National Resource Center
Tourette Syndrome Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with Tourette syndrome and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: January 2025
Publisher: Nemours Children’s Health
Universal Design for Learning for Children with ADHD
The goal of this study is to analyze the impact that Universal Design for Learning, an individualized approach that combines current neuroscientific knowledge, creating personalized teaching based on the strengths and weaknesses of the student, has on basic learning abilities.
Authors: Alessandro Frolli, Francesco Cerciello, Clara Esposito,
Maria Carla Ricci, Rossana Pia Laccone, and Fabio Bisogni
Publication Date: August 2023
Publisher: National Library of Medicine
What Is Cystic Fibrosis?
This article explains cystic fibrosis systems, diagnosis, causes, treatments, and living with the disease.
Publication Date: March 2022
Publisher: National Institutes of Health