Educational Ressources for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
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This project is dedicated to creating high-quality, accessible educational materials targeting students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities and learning disabilties. The aim is to provide meaningful support to educators by offering thoughtfully designed digital resources. They include a wide range of tools such as assessments for specific topics, instructional material and books in easy language. Each resource is designed with simplicity, clarity, and adaptability in mind, ensuring that it can be effectively used in a variety of educational settings—from mainstream classrooms to special education environments. All resources are offered free of charge and are available for immediate use in the classroom.
Assessments
- Sight Word Reading: In this test, students read a list of sight words out loud for two minutes. The test uses a special sight word list for students with intellectual disabilities. To access the test, please visit www.levumi.de and register for free.
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Reading Screening: The Levumi Reading Screening measures four areas of reading, namely phonological awareness, vocabulary, reading fluency and reading comprehension and is also usable for students with intellectual disabiltiies. To access the test, please visit www.levumi.de and register for free.
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Read the study about the results and comparison between students with learning disabilties and intellectual disabilities [here]
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Easy Language
- Goethes Faust in leichter Sprache: This book is a complete translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Book “Faust” - a German story of the classic period. This book tragets students starting at about age 16 and older due to explicit topics, like e.g. death, murder, depression, sex etc.