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This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. 

A comprehensive catalog of educational technology. If you like the concepts of universal design for learning this book will bring you to the next level with technology. The book outlines the very best educational technology to reach special education students, diverse learners and engage all students in the learning process. There is a new generation of low-cost technology to help reach challenging students like never before. This gives teachers countless tools to include in your UDL toolbox and enhance your teaching.

STAR - Alabama's Assistive Technology Resource, is a federally funded program designed to increase access to and acquisition of Assistive Technology (AT) for Alabamians with disabilities. T.A.S.C will be providing modules for STAR Training as outlined b

A poster outlining important aspects of a ergonomically correct workstation setup

Article outlining research about the benefits of reading for pleasure.

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

Episode #44 is up for your listening pleasure and boy is it a doozy! It clocks in at just under 42 minutes! Yikes! Episode #44 is kind of a unique episode because it features a recording of a live event. Back on November 14th I was lucky enough to attend the Powering Up with Technology Conference in Prince George's County Maryland. At that conference I presented a session called Alternative Professional Development. I use the term "presented" loosely because, although I was listed as the presenter, the session was more of an integrated brainstorming session. I was more of the moderator for the discussion than a presenter. During the session we tried to outline some of the common problems with staff development happening in public schools and then try to come up with some solutions. During the course of the discussion a bunch of great ideas were mentioned about how to address some of the problems with the typical professional development model. Furthermore, a number of concrete resources are mentioned that can be used to assist students. You can access the entire presentation as generated by the audience here: Alternative Professional Development Presentation from PUWT09.

Episode #94 features a recording of a live event from the Loudoun County Public School's ActivLoudounPlus conference. Kevin Hale, an Algebra teacher at Loudoun County High School, explains how an accommodation outlined in one student's IEP blossomed into a strategy accessible to any student.

Episode #94 features a recording of a live event from the Loudoun County Public School's ActivLoudounPlus conference. Kevin Hale, an Algebra teacher at Loudoun County High School, explains how an accommodation outlined in one student's IEP blossomed into a strategy accessible to any student.

PDF outlining the specification for accessible signage

Student's strength/preference is to provide verbal responses. Student might answer questions using her/his voice. Student outlines thoughts for an essay by recording voice notes in each cell of a graphic organizing template and then goes back to type in what was recorded. Teachers could use this feature to provide audio feedback. Teacher could use this feature to provide instructions, hints, reminders, or other comments to students.

In this blog post by a famous AAC clinician named Gail Van Tatenhove she tells the story of Velma, an employee at an adult facility who witnessed Gail talking with an AAC user by modeling on the device. Velma was inspired to become "America's Next Top Modeler" with Gail acting as her coach. In the article, Gail outlines some initial scripts she gave to Velma to use when chatting with the AAC user. These scripts were necessary because Velma couldn't be expected to know where every word was she might ever need to say. The scripts took the pressure off! Velma only needed to find these few words. Guess what happened? In time, Velma learned where all of these words were so she didn't need to use the scripts at all.

Leading visual thinking and learning tool providing integrated diagram and outline views for creating dynamic mulit-modal graphic organizers

Tucker, age 11, outlines different ways educators can transform themselves into Educational Experience Designers and describes some different tools that can be used to provide students with more options. A big thanks to TTAC/ODU (http://ttac.odu.edu/) for sponsoring the creation of this video series!

Fint printable Quick Guides for Inspiration 8. Inspiration software allows students to create webs on the computer screen to organize their thoughts before writing. It is an excellent accommodation for students whose handwriting difficulties limit the benefit of making webs on paper.