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"The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners is to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state standards. "

Create symbol based communication and educational materials to support the literacy needs of any student. The program includes over 4500 symbols and 22 different languages.

Visit the IRIS Center for Training Enhancements for free online interactive resources that translate research about the education of students with disabilities into practice. Our materials cover a wide variety of evidence-based topics, including behavior,

primes, graphs, digits, sums of powers, bases, algebra and more!

Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the

Edutopia search by grade level, topic, media, weekly e-newsletter, classroom guides project-based learning

A free PDF Book outlining a methodology for doing AT assessments related to communication

Place value practice. Look at base ten blocks determine the number, then select it from the group of numbers. Immediate feedback

A web-based word processor designed to allow people to work together in real-time.

"Twiddla is a no-setup, web-based meeting playground. Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly. "

Games in the Classroom

a free web-based tool that enables anyone to author and publish educational materials that use the Universal Design for Learning framework to flexibly respond to the needs of all learners. The link to the press release that explain more about the product and a link to the actual tool is located at: http://www.cast.org/about/news/2013-03-12.html

This is a free site that allows you to build online interactive lessons or modules... really easy and really cool!

Create dynamic, UDL supported learning environments!

"The Sensory Learning NZ website is the home of the Sensory Learning Toolkit (SLTNZ). The SLTNZ has been designed primarily for practitioners of students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). We have researched, tried and tested tools to gather data and approaches to learning that are suitable and relevant to this group of students. Tools that show the very small and often subtle changes in student behaviour that show learning and how they learn. At the heart of the SLTNZ is the belief that 'everyone is learner', starting from a base of 'presuming competence' and celebrating achievements. The overriding framework and approach however can be used with higher functioning students of all ages. The tools used to gather data will change but the process will be the same."

These two-page print-outs make word wheels; each one consists of a base page together with a wheel that spins around (they are connected by a metal brad). When you spin the wheel, words are formed or displayed. Heavy paper (like cardstock) makes better wheels.

Students are asked to Look over the picture. Write a story based on what you imagine is happening.

AccessIT promotes the use of electronic and information technology for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels. This Web site features the AccessIT Knowledge Base, a searchable database of questions and answers regarding accessible electronic and information technology. It is designed for educators, policy makers, librarians, technical support staff, and students and employees with disabilities and their advocates.

NATE -- the National Assistive Technology in Education Network -- brings together information from the many fields and disciplines that are involved in assistive technology services in educational settings. We provide that information in a cohesive, integ

Assistive Technology Trainer's Handbook (P.Reed, M. Kaplan, G. Bowser) This manual is designed for all AT service providers who train others. It contains research-based information about planning, providing and evaluating training

This tactile book is based on Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree By Eileen Christelow and is part of the Circle Time Braille Kit: Five Little Monkeys. It is designed be used in conjunction with the Teacher's Guide, as well as the Interactive "M" Book to help young children who are blind or visually impaired to develop emergent literacy skills, including tactile skills, counting to five, prepositions, positional concepts and the letter "m" for beginning readers at the Kindergarten level.

PEEP's educational outreach aims to model science inquiry skills and stimulate curiosity. Our team works with early childhood educators, public libraries, museums, community-based organizations, and families to motivate their support of preschoolers' innate curiosity and interest in exploration.