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"Newsela will publish Post articles at five reading levels for 2nd-12th grade readers, including the original version exactly as it appears in the print or online edition of The Washington Post. All articles from The Washington Post are available at https://newsela.com/~washingtonpost."

"Review elements of a tweet. Ask students to write their 'handle' (i.e. username) on the top of 3 post its. Play a video, pausing to allow students to add something they learned on their post it to mimic a tweet. Display the tweets around the room and have students walk around the room creating at least three reply tweets to other students."

"The following units have been developed by Arlington Public Schools teachers to support science instruction through children's literature at the elementary level.  The documents are posted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format so that teachers may use and modify the materials for their own classrooms."

Blog post by Chris Bugaj about using the Voice Note feature of Read&Write for composing and written expression.

Paths to Technology is designed to assist educators and families in learning and staying current on ever-changing technology for students with visual impairments and blindness. The goal of this project is to enable students with visual impairments and blindness (VIB) to succeed in paperless mainstream classrooms and post-school opportunities for employment by achieving digital literacy and by staying current with rapidly evolving technology. Created as an interactive site, Paths to Technology will be a resource for defining and disseminating best practices, training, and support for teachers of the visually impaired, braille transcribers, other education professionals, parents and students themselves.

A blog post from a clinician who explains why she stopped using an ABA approach.

Scanning Pictures as a Work Job Blog Post

A blog post detailing why it is important to have an end goal of language use and a system in place for how to get there .

Blog post with description and files for using PowerPoint to create storyboards.

The NYC DOE posts some good implementation materials for what they call "give me 20" including some premade overlays for the GoT 4 (look down the page).

Story from Huffington Post about a school that banned the R-Word.

This blog post explains the importance of motor planning (written by a mother of student who uses AAC)

Search every post ever on the QIAT Listserv

Pictures of vocabulary words

Each week Night Light Stories does a blog post featuring a visual representation of a word. These posts are done in alphabetical order and help students learn vocabulary.

Washington Post Article - Specific parts of the brain are activated when children try to comprehend sentences. Scans allow researchers to measure that process.

"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 audio, video, podcasts and easy post to blogs

Blog post with some good tips for using Twitter

Blog post with video about using Ipad with camera adapter with NEO keyboard