In this video, Ayo Jones, an experienced special educator and instructional coach, shares tips on student portfolios.
How can students with significant cognitive disabilities make progress toward higher academic standards and more postsecondary opportunities? This professional development module defines comprehensive academic instruction as an important strategy to achieve those goals.
How can students with significant cognitive disabilities make progress toward higher academic standards and more postsecondary opportunities?
How can students with significant cognitive disabilities make progress toward higher academic standards and more postsecondary opportunities?
In this module, participants will review the goals of supporting participation in discussion and the need of an expressive means of communication for all students. Participants will also be given 5 strategies to use in supporting students during discussions with teachers and peers.
This module provides an overview of symbols to support communication and interaction. It also describes the use of symbols and photographs in text.
This resource describes how to make different types of tactile books for students who are blind or low vision, including those with deaf-blindness or multiple disabilities.
A checklist for running a successful online meeting or PD; adaptable for K–12 professional development needs.
The goal of this module is to discuss how to support interaction and teach communication as students engage in academic instruction across the school day. Self-directed and facilitated versions available.
In this module, participants will learn to identify the components of an Anchor-Read-Apply text comprehension lesson, match purposes for reading with anchor activities, and describe the difference between asking questions to assess comprehension and teaching students to understand text in increas
Universal Design is an approach to curriculum design that can help teachers customize curricula to serve all learners, regardless of ability, age, gender, or cultural and linguistic background.
The Communication Supports Inventory- Children & Youth (CSI-CY) is a tool to help professionals working with students with complex communication needs make educational plans that are comprehensive enough to capture their strengths and restrictions.
In this video, Dr. Caroline Musselwhite discusses the cost of underestimating the potential of individual students in the context of literacy instruction for students with significant disabilities.
This module focuses on the use of a ten frame as a tool to help students develop an understanding of base-ten as well as composing and decomposing.
A publication aimed at parents of students with SCD aimed at informing parents about how grades are assessesed. "The purpose