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Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ CAST Professional Learning offers many opportunities for educators, teachers, administrators, and organizations to enhance their professional understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for education design that is based upon cognitive neuroscientific principles. UDL, developed by CAST, has become one of the most widely, nationally accepted set of Guidelines that enable educators to amplify the learning experience and reach the variability of all learners.

Self directed course as well as a variety of video interviews with teachers and students of UDL classrooms, classroom strategies, implementation plans, and theoretical framework descriptions

CODES infor "Overlays You will need Boardmaker installed on your computer to open most of these files. Communication Books, Storybags, Low Tech Communication Kits, Tech 8/32 overlays, Games Pack Overlays Timetables" The CODES Framework now has its own website, please click on link to visit page http://codesframework.wordpress.com/ The Codes Framework - What is a successful AAC communicator and how do we know the individual is an effective communicator?

The SETT Framework is a four part model intended to promote collaborative decision-making in all phases of assistive technology service design and delivery from consideration through implementation and evaluation of effectiveness. SETT is an acronym for

bill before the Maryland General Assembly to incorporate UDL into our state framework.

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."

Created by teachers for teachers, the Math Academy series features hands-on activities and a fun learning environment for the teaching of mathematics to students. Use these lessons to enhance your classroom instruction while staying true to the academic rigor required by the state standards framework.

Most new curriculum frameworks, guides or plans are focussed on the connections or bridges between disciplines. Themes are often used to as these bridges to emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving approaches. Theme based projects help students to

Episode #101 of the A.T.TIPSCAST features a brief discussion about what comes next in one's personal quest to learn more about the implementation of the Universal Design for Learning framework.

Center for Applied Special Technology offers significant information on UDL such as research & development with UDL, professional development, products resources and publications. NOTE: CAST is the curator of the UDL framework

PDF describing the principles behind the Four Block literacy framework

How to make a Large Eye Gaze Frame

There is a rapidly growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effects of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention on the communication of children and adults with complex communication needs. Despite the positive impact of many AAC interventions, however, many individuals with complex communication needs continue to experience serious challenges participating in educational, vocational, healthcare, and community environments. In this paper, we apply the framework proposed by the International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to illustrate the need to re-think AAC intervention to improve outcomes for individuals with complex communication needs, and to foster a new generation of intervention research that will provide a solid foundation for improved services. Specifi cally, the paper emphasizes the need to take a more holistic view of communication intervention and highlights the following key principles to guide AAC intervention and research: (a) build on the individual ' s strengths and focus on the integration of skills to maximize communication, (b) focus on the individual ' s participation in real-world contexts, (c) address psychosocial factors as well as skills, and (d) attend to extrinsic environmental factors as well as intrinsic factors related to the individual who requires AAC.

The Bridge is an early literacy and language assessment framework based on observation and portfolio development/analysis. Several documents including an experimental version of the Bridge Assessment Tool can be downloaded by clicking on the files below.

Comprehensive guidelines developed by CAST for using and integrating the UDL framework within classrooms

14 page guide from the National Center for Learning Disabilities which showcases the goals, methods, materials, and assessment using the UDL framework

Episode #101 of the A.T.TIPSCAST features a brief discussion about what comes next in one's personal quest to learn more about the implementation of the Universal Design for Learning framework.