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Invite students or educators to create their own superhero as a writing prompt or as a behavior strategy (What Would Your Hero Do?)

This collection of visual supports and other resources provides examples of various strategies that can be used to support students on the autism spectrum, as well as others with and without disabilities. Some of these visuals have also been used as part of a school's Response to Intervention (RTI) or as part of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports (PBIS). Many of the visuals can also be used with families to assist their son/daughter at home. Others may benefit adults on the spectrum, as well.

Visual supports from the Indiana Resource Center for Autism

This tactile book is based on Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree By Eileen Christelow and is part of the Circle Time Braille Kit: Five Little Monkeys. It is designed be used in conjunction with the Teacher's Guide, as well as the Interactive "M" Book to help young children who are blind or visually impaired to develop emergent literacy skills, including tactile skills, counting to five, prepositions, positional concepts and the letter "m" for beginning readers at the Kindergarten level.

Free resources and ideas that just make sense! End Math Anxiety, Reading Strategies, Learning Patterns and Much More!

PrAACtical AAC is written by two professors of speech-language pathology, Robin Parker and Carole Zangari, who are passionate about AAC. Our blog is a virtual space where we can muse aloud about the state of the field, share information about implementing AAC strategies, provide resources, and discuss news of interest to the AAC community. You can read more about our blogging journey here and here. PrAACtical AAC's Mission: To improve the level of AAC services available to individuals with significant communication challenges by supporting speech-language pathologists and other interested stakeholders-

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This website, created by the Loudoun County Assistive Technology Team, provides links to resources for low tech to high tech math and science tools and strategies. They are created with Microsoft Office Suite, free Internet downloads, or other inexpensive materials to provide access to math and science curricula for all students. Includes cheat sheets for MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Book where Christopher Bugaj, Mark Nichols, and Melissa Hartman contributed two chapters; a chapter on professional development strategies and another on tools integration.

UDL Strategies Wiki: "Multiple means of representation - the 'what' of learning with varied ways that new information can be presented to students."

Fitzgerald Key and other recommendations for Color Coding for Language

Each of us has stories worth telling. The writing prompts offered here will help you or you students find your/their own special voice. Read the prompts, let your mind wander freely and listen carefully to the voice within.

Information Kit for AAC Teams Teaching Strategies - Modelling in Everyday Activities http://www.rockybay.org.au/resources/useful-links

The presentation focused on critical features of classroom management. It includes general overview of SW-PBS including classroom and individual support system, application of continuum of instructional and PBS, and RTI model approaches. The presentation describes all levels of SWPBS implementation strategies and RtI logic application for student success (for academic and behavior).

PDF describing these strategies

Slide deck related to a presentation on teaching language to students who use AAC by planning meaningful activities all day long. It reviews critical components including core vocabulary, motor planning/memory, aided language stimulation, language development, classroom implementation strategies, planning for language all day long, data collection, and more!

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.

Example of different ways to use mindmaps

If you found this site by searching for Be More Awesome during an Escape The Room with Instructional Strategies session, guess what?!?! You're doing it! We encourage you to search the LCPS AT Diigo site to find other resources to help you provide options for students! Try searching for "reading" or "math" or anything else you're interested in learning about. Now be even more awesome by going to the link associated with this resource to discover your next clue OR, if you use a screen reader, do another search in the LCPS AT Diigo Group for the tag "BeMoreAccessible".