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Maryland UDL wheel designed by the State Department of Education

Another digital version of the AT Considerations Wheel

Interactive UDL Wheel

Episode #96 defines and examines the benefits of a language-based curriculum and discusses strategies for how teachers can implement this approach into their classrooms.

ECSE teachers, are you planning this way?

Episode #92 features a number of easy-t0-implement strategies to help students learn to be better spellers and to correct spelling errors.

Chris Bugaj gives an Ignite Presentation at the VSTE 2012 Annual Conference about a strategy to help people understand and promote universal design for learning

While this informatation is hosted on the Dynavox site, there are pdfs, websites, and videos that may be generally useful when seeking communication solutions. be sure to check out the AAC Needs Assessment, accessed by doing a search on the posted link. The Implementation Toolkit was designed for you! It provides hundreds of real-life resources and examples that promote successful communication in daily life using AAC. Use the resources for your personal growth or to train others. The resources found in the Toolkit cover topics related to AAC, its users and the people who support them. A variety of print materials, as well as instructional videos, feature essential information about AAC, lesson and therapy plans, techniques for communication partners, an introduction to our language software, InterAACt, and much more! The Toolkit is easy-to-use and will save you valuable time. Learn about common AAC topics using the "Learning Paths" tab, and find resources quickly using the "Search Resources" tab. You can also save selected resources to "My Favorites" so you can access them efficiently each time you visit.

"Augmentative Communication, Augmentative Communication News (ACN), distilling the ongoing research, exemplary practice, and new development activities in the field into a practical format that made it possible for clinicians, students and teachers to translate ongoing research and development into immediate practice. For fifteen years (1994-2009) Michael B. Williams, a gifted writer who himself relies on augmentative communication tools and strategies, wrote, edited, and oversaw the publications of Alternatively Speaking. This newsletter was written by and for people with complex communication needs and covered topics of personal and immediate interest to individuals who benefit using AAC. Alternatively Speaking provides straight talk on key issues, from the perspective of people who rely on AAC. Every single issue of these two seminal publications in the field of AAC is now available"

"14 Simple conversation social skills kits for children with autism: Free games, prompts, worksheets, activities"

This website provides a variety of strategies for introducing core vocabulary to students. Click on the link to "Year of Core Words" for an editable document with 12 grids of core vocabulary words (one grid per month) that you can add your preferred pictures to.

"These materials are supplemental to those found in the Pixon Project Kit"

This link will connect you to a wealth of low tech communication resources and strategies using Pixon core vocabulary symbols.

These script cards provide prompt hierarchies and response strategies for teaching basic core vocabulary words.

This video is part of the UBC Learning Commons three-minute tutorials series. The tutorial will demonstrate a mnemonic strategy and various methods for taking better notes

The goal of SciGirls is to encourage girls to find a passion of science, technology, engineering and math - or STEM. Each 30-minute episode highlights scientific and engineering processes following a different set of middle school girls who design their own inquiry-based investigations with the help of scientist mentors. The mentors offer the students a glimpse of exciting STEM career possibilities. SciGirls educational materials provide gender-equitable teaching strategies and hands-on inquiries based on the concepts modeled in SciGirls' videos.

TAC it Up "Do you teach students with intellectual disabilities? Do you spend most of your day creating lessons because there is no curriculum designed for your students? Do you have a desire to find out what other teachers are doing for students similar to yours? Do you want to spend some time learning new strategies, creating activities and sharing with others?"

The #FutureReady hashtag on Twitter where educators share strategies for preparing students for a future where they are ready to handle anything!

"Cubing is a differentiation strategy where students roll a cube that has different activities/tasks printed on each face of the cube.  When a student rolls a cube, he/she does the activity that appears on the face."