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"Welcome to Weather Wiz Kids®. I'm meteorologist Crystal Wicker. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It's also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents to give them the right tools to explain the different types of weather to children. "

Visit our Youtube page to watch video tips about teaching children with special needs cooking skills from an occupational therapist, chef, and teachers. ARTICLES: Adaptive Cooking Tools Resources Glossary Why Teach Cooking Skills? Disability Awareness Classroom Assignment Suggested Meal Plans

Inspiration Software provides teachers with a means to create visual thinking tools that help build a solid learning foundation for all students.

CAST Book Builder introduction tools and philosophy Book Builder Public Library book created by Loudoun County Public Schools

fun online tool

Tutorial/cheat sheet on adding the Voice Comment feature on the Quick Access Toolbar in MS Word 2007 to easily create voice recordings in the document. Great tool for student and teachers!

BigBlueButton enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.

Welcome to BridgingApps! Many teachers have found using mobile devices with their students with and without disabilities to be beneficial in numerous ways. However, finding appropriate apps and accessories to meet the needs of your students and your classroom can be challenging and confusing. We view our website as a shortcut in that process. We focus on apps that have been designed to address a particular need or have been creatively adapted by users to meet a specific need. Finding apps is just the first step in an exciting journey of discovery with your students that will involve trial and error. All of the app reviews on our website have been conducted by therapists or special education teachers, and they have been trialed with someone who has a disability. We invite you to explore these pages to help you find the tools you need to get started and to share best practices with us on your journey of discovery.

"We believe that it is more important to focus on the person who will be using the technology, rather than the device itself. We assume that you are here because you want to improve a skill or creatively compensate for a deficit that may be preventing a person with a disability from maximizing their highest potential."

University of NC at Charlotte's website of adapted books that go along with curriculum in NC standard course of study. The books open with and print with Writing with Symbols, a rebus based software tool. A simplified Word version is available as well that can be used alone or with other graphic generating software.

adapted texts for older students University of North Carolina at Charlotte UNC-Charlotte Charlotte's Web

"If You Build It, They Will Read!" Authoring Books Online with CAST Book Builder Following Universal Design for Learning principles, engage readers with a free online authoring tool that allows users to create, read, and publish digital books while meeting"

What is chirbit? Record, upload, and share audio easily. Features Share your audio on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, your blog or website. Upload audio in mp3, wav, aiff, wma, ogg, amr, or m4a formats. Record on the go using any smart phone with a voice recorder & email. Browse The Top 100 Chirbit Posts, Featured Chirbits or Twitter to see how others are using chirbit.

comprehensive self-study multi-media modules regarding Assitive Technology: ◦AT Assessment Process in the School Environment ◦AT Assessment Tools ◦AT Consideration in the IEP Process ◦AT Supports and Services in the IEP ◦Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) ◦Overview of Assistive Technology (AT)

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.

The excerpt uses pages 14 through 18 of the report to demonstrate some UDL features. To see descriptions of the UDL features and how they support learning, click on "Show UDL Information. Click on each UDL icon for feature descriptions. Our excerpt demonstrates only a few examples of UDL learning supports. For more information about UDL and the UDL Guidelines, go to The National Center on UDL. Learn More

Sample article with embedded text-to-speech tools

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

Students will be able to… *identify and describe the germination process of a bean plant. *conduct a simple science experiment and observe and record the outcome. *identify the basic needs of bean seeds in order to germinate. *measure the growth of a bean plant using standard measurement. *recognize that tools (rulers,…) have specific functions (to assist in measuring, …) to makes tasks easier.

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.