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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. "

Study & Organization Tools to Build Student Text and Lecture Comprehension"

Directions on how to build a mouse house.

"The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. "

"Building Books Page by Page: Becoming Your Own Digital Publisher! EDU-41" Mike Marotta, Judie and Sally ATIA14

PACER's National Parent Center on Transition and Employment provides tips for young people with disabilities and their families on effective strategies for building the first resume. Includes a step by step action plan for employment.

The definition of Assistive Technology as written in the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Improvement Act

"Resources for AAC Strategies and Tools (RAST) is a compilation of tools and strategies to assist teams in providing collaborative services in line with clinical knowledge and researched practices. RAST's purpose is to provide teams with concise user-friendly resources for organizing, teaching, and building teams that support users of AAC. Intervention supporting users of assistive technologies is a dynamic process (King, Baroody & Haymes, 1998; Beukelman & Mirenda,1992)."

Great for building memory skills! Train your brain!

"Reinforce money skills and concepts, with these printables, lesson plans, and quizzes for your mathematics class. The topics learned will help your students in practical, real-life situations now and in the future. Included you'll find lesson plans about the monetary system of ancient civilizations, daily warm-ups for all grade levels, cost-evaluation exercises to build your students awareness of budgets, printable sheets of dollars and coins, activities for holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, quizzes, and much more!"

Free downloadable Installation and Quick Start Guide for the QX5 digital microscope, available in the computer labs at LCPS elementary schools. Great accessible science tool! See tiny things on your computer. Great for students with visual challenges! Take the microscope off its base for magnified viewing. Build a picture collection of your discoveries and creations. Produce your own movies and slide shows.

Learning with LEGOS. The possibilities are endless with these mostly free bookmarked resources.

"The visuals engine will help you build visual supports and sequences for your child."

Looking for games and activities to do with your students to help them learn to use their communication systems more effectively and engage in social interactions? CALL Scotland to the rescue! Their website provides a wealth of free downloadable games and activities designed to provide fun communication opportunities.

"Below, you'll be able to download a short but constructive and fun communication activity for a youngster who uses AAC. The activities aim to help a student to learn and practise - in other words, use! - his or her communication aid to enjoy interactions with others and build up useful social and communicative experiences. To benefit, you first need to ensure that the Talker is always out of its bag, charged up, and on the table/wheelchair mount ready for daily use. That done, even a 5 minute 'gap' can be turned into a useful communication game. The activities are taken from CALL's 'Keep Talking' book, which was inspired by the teacher who, on one of CALL Scotland's visits, said with some desperation 'I know I'm not doing enough. Somehow, my brain goes all fuzzy - I just can't think of any communication games...'."

Orange County Public Schools - AAC Implementation Strategies Model It!!! thoughts on aided language AAC Plan for Implemention a planning tool for who and how implemention will happen Greetings & Closing Poster instructions to staff on how to implement single message device Dyanmic AAC Competency Goals Word Hunts A game to encourage vocabulary building using AAC device. Writing Communication Goals A Plan for Indroducing Core Vocabulary

"Accessibility is essential for leveraging technology and providing educational opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities. Our CTD Accessibility Suite includes tools and resources designed to support SEA and LEA leaders in building state and district capacity. Feel free to use, share, and repurpose these materials for planning meetings, trainings, and other professional development activities.  "

Use Boardmaker Plus or Speaking Dynamically Pro to build talking note boards and study guides. Find out more on assistive technology at http://nolimitstolearning.blogspot.com