Disability: Nonverbal Students

Scholastic’s website provides a wealth of information about how children grieve and that teachers can help children manage loss.

This resource from the Children’s Grief Education Association outlines age-specific expectations for how students may deal with grief, as well as suggestions for each.

This resource from the National Alliance for Grieving Children suggests activities and strategies that can be used to help students cope with feelings associated with grief and loss, as well as rapid change.

These documents from The National Center for Grieving Children & Families provide frameworks and resources for responding to grief and loss during the pandemic.

This resource from The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) serves to promote the ability of children and youth to cope with traumatic or unsettling times.

These resources compiled by Autism Speaks serve as an entry point for discussing grief and loss with students with autism.

This resource from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities provides suggestions and resources for people with intellectual disabilities coping with loss.

Website designed to provide educators with the information, insights, and practical advice they need to better understand and meet the needs of the millions of grieving kids in America’s classrooms.

The Center for Complicated Grief is dedicated to improving the lives of people suffering from complicated grief by helping clinicians and the general public learn how to recognize complicated grief.

A non-profit with the mission of helping people find hope after loss.