Special educators have a tremendous amount of expertise to share, especially about individualizing instruction for students with specific kinds of disabilities and taking into account each child's special needs.

Here are half a dozen "starter" links that will take you into the heart of more, more, more. 

Special Education Curriculum Websites

• About.com's Links to Special Education Teaching Strategies and Best Practices
  http://specialed.about.com/od/teacherstrategies/
  Teaching_Strategies_and_Best_Practices.htm
• About.com's Links to Mainstreaming/Inclusion Information & Strategies
  Mainstreaming: http://7-12educators.miningco.com/msub81mainstreaming.htm
  Inclusion/Integration: http://specialed.about.com/od/integration/Integration.htm
• Instructional Strategies on the Internet
  http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/inclusion/
  teaching/front_teaching.html#strategies
  Links to special education teaching and learning technique sites reviewed by the Washington State Department of Education.
  
  
• Intervention Techniques
  http://special.edschool.virginia.edu/information/interventions.html
  Special education majors at the UVA review journal articles on teaching techniques for students with disabilities.
  
  
• Pre-school Zone: Resources for Early Childhood Special Education
  www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/pep/pz.html
  
  
• Teachers Helping Teachers
  www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SpecialEducation.html
  Special Education lesson plans submitted by teachers.
  
  
• TeacherVision.com Search Engine
  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plan/resource/5775.html
  Searching under the word "Curriculum", "Disabilities" or the phrase "Special Education" brings up a list of articles and web resources on that subject, broken down into subtopics.

Specific Disabilities

LD Online
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/strategies.html
LD Online provides a wealth of materials for and about students with learning disabilities. You'll find articles about specific instructional strategies and techniques for for this population, including:

• General classroom instruction, accommodations
• Teaching phonological awareness, reading
• Teaching spelling
• Teaching oral and written language
• Teaching organization, active reading/ listening, and study skills
• Teaching mathematics
• Teaching social/ behavior skills