The IRIS Center is a national center that provides high-quality resources about students with disabilities for college and university faculty and professional development trainers. A great resource for more information about DI.

By Nancy Firchow, M.L.S. The goal for every student is to learn, but not every child learns in the same way. Kids with disabilities may have an especially difficult time with traditional classroom materials. Today, your child's teachers compensate for variation among their students by adapting how they present information, structure assignments, and test for understanding.

Traditionally curricula have been planned for an imaginary "average". This has resulted in inflexible curricula that have not met the needs of most students. In this paper, Meo discusses how to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into the curriculum planning process to include all students from the start.

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