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Offered by the National Center on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), the UDL Series provides web-based rich media presentations and resources to increase understanding of the UDL framework, enhance utilization of UDL tools, processes, and resources, support effective UDL implementation, and inform UDL advocates, families, and communities about professional development and policy initiatives.

MathType Guide for Physically Disabled and Low Vision Users

FREE tool to help educators devleop their own digital books to support reading instruction.

Cheat sheet created by the Loudoun County Public Schools' Assistive Technology Team on using the Boardmaker Plus v. 6 Symbolate tool. Type in the text, or copy and paste it from a document or the Internet, and the graphics will appear with the text. It also has a text to speech feature that reads the text aloud. Provides wonderful supports for struggling readers and English language learners!

Check out this interactive number line! Combining this online tool with our low tech tactile number line provides multisensory math supports for students with diverse learning needs.

"Our Free Educational Songs are both entertaining, and informative. Research shows that children learn better through music than through almost any other medium. Use these educational MP3s to support and enhance your lesson plans"

UDL Wikispaces Wiki created using Glogster.Interactive Wiki providing a variety of information and support for implementing a UDL framework within educational environments

Karen Janowski's wiki contains an amazing array of free UDL tools and resources for all classrooms, including math, literacy, study skills, research, and much more.

Assessing Students' Needs for Assistive Technology (ASNAT) 5th Edition - complete version

How Do You Know It? How Can You Show It? Data collection Reed, Bowser & Korsten

Creating your Own Electronic Text to Support Text Comprehension by Students With Moderate to Severe Disabilities from TAM 2009

Free visual supports premade with accompanying demonstration videos for their use

"Core Word Round-up!" many many many resources

The National Urban Technology Center (Urban Tech), a not-for-profit educational corporation, transforms lives through the power of technology by giving youth the capacity for positive behavior and academic success. Urban Tech achieves its mission by teaching students essential life skills, and by training and coaching parents and educators to support social and emotional learning. Urban Tech's flagship programs, The Youth Leadership Academy® (YLA) and SeedTech®, are delivered online to enhance the ability of schools and after-school programs to reach and effectively teach all students.

"Connecting best practices with technology to meet the Common Core Standards" Free registration In your PowerUp Classroom, technology tools will support your use of research-based practices to meet your students' needs. Technology tools and resources can help you employ UDL principles to customize instruction and better meet the needs and abilities of each one of your students.

This basic keyboarding course provides structured lessons with visuals emphasizing left hand and right hand finger placement, with additional exercises to support two hand use.

This keyboard lesson (first of a series) provides visuals and instructions emphasizing left hand and right hand finger placement, with keyboarding exercises that support two hand use.

WATI Assessing Students' Needs for Assistive Technology (2009). 1. Assistive Technology for Mathematics. Marcia Obukowicz, OTR

Here you will find a variety of tools and resources to support implementation of I'm Determined materials. To get started, click on the elementary or secondary tab below. Materials in this section will help you assess your students' self-determination needs.

This has resources that span the life span on self determination.

'The PACER Report' reveals the many ways PACER helps children with disabilities reach their full potential. Intrepid reporters Violet and Graham, who have Down syndrome, investigate the breaking story of PACER's past and present, and show us what's in store for the future."