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The Use of an Eight-Step Instructional Model to Train School Staff in Partner-Augmented Input

"The Lifespan Transitions Center at OCALI The Lifespan Transitions Center offers resources, training, technical assistance, and consultation to support the successful transition of individuals with autism and multiple disabilities throughout their school careers and into their adult lives. Resources address community living and employment."

SET-BC's vast collection of free downloadable visual supports available in both PDF and Boardmaker file formats in the following categories: school, home, community, sample communication displays, young adults, and seasons and holidays

Create a free login to access a wealth of downloadable Boardmaker templates and activities. Search features enables you to specify category, grade level, interactivity, and more. Must have Boardmaker software to open the files. LCPS staff members can get the Boardmaker CDs from the school libraries.

Dade County Interactive Storybooks bit.ly/dadestories

Miami-Dade County Public Schools provides free downloadable interactive storybooks with visuals created with Boardmaker software. Includes links to numerous additional categories of visual supports.

"Welcome to the Student Inventory for Technology Supports (SIFTS). The SIFTS is a tool to assist school teams in matching a student's needs with assistive technology (AT) features."

"For kids with ADHD, difficulty with focus, hyperactivity and impulsivity can make it harder to learn in the classroom. Here's a look at some accommodations that can help."

Links to Ian Bean's free resources to accessible materials, videos and other activities, along with documents and information useful to those working with or parenting young people with severe and complex needs. All of their resources have been virus checked and determined to be safe to download for use at school or at home.

School administrator using Twitter

Student from Hamilton Elementary School describes a famous woman.

Explanation of how to participate in the 12-13 Strategy-A-Day Calendar Creative Sharing Contest. Only employees of Loudoun County Public Schools are eligible to participate in the giveaway but anyone is free to share pictures of how they've used the Strategy-A-Day Calendar. Send your pictures to Chris.Bugaj@lcps.org. Happy Sharing!

Episode #46 features another excerpt from the presentation for the Individual Differences in Learning Association in Howard County, Maryland. This excerpt describes WordTalk; a free text-to-speech plug-in for Microsoft Word. The episode features a bumper from Karen Janowski who is an assistive technology consultant, an assistive technology specialist for a school district in Massachusetts, adjunct faculty member at Simmons College, and school board member in her town. She is also one of the innovators behind the UDLTechToolKit wiki, which contains a plethora of resources useful for differentiating instruction.

Data about elementary and secondary schools in the US?

"United Opt Out National serves as a focused point of unyielding resistance to corporate ed. reform. We demand an equitably funded, democratically based, anti-racist, desegregated public school system for all Americans that prepares students to exercise compassionate and critical decision making with civic virtue."

Guest blogger, special educator, and high school transition specialist Chelsea Eddy on "Do Your Students Have the Skills to Pay the Bills?"