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Brief interview with successful co-teachers.

"Macomb County's E3T Universal Design for Learning professional development team is dedicated to providing teachers with the tools and strategies they need to remove curriculum barriers and increase learning opportunities for EVERY learner.  E3T teams learn to create flexible curriculum that meets the needs of a wide range of students including gifted students, struggling students, students for whom English is a second language, disadvantaged students, disengaged students, in short, all of the students who comprise today's classrooms. E3T is based upon an instructional framework called Universal Design for Learning or UDL. UDL is a research-based approach to teaching, learning and assessment that draws on brain research and new media technologies to respond to individual learner differences and interests.   E3T teams efficiently and "

This project has been produced by the Consortium for Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs and an interdisciplinary team of AT and Telehealth experts across the country. The interdisciplinary team designing this AT curriculum is comprised of experts in the fields of informational technology, assistive technology, telehealth, rehabilitation engineering, and service provision. The team consists of includes Rachel Brady, Toby Long, Jean Minkle, Penny Reed, John Richards, Mike Rosen, Steve Sulzbacher, and Joy Zabala.

"Welcome!!! MrMatt.Org is a free website designed to help educators with assistive and educational technology services. The site contains the opinions of Matt Connell, Educator and Assistive Technology Specialist, and has no connection with any specific developer or service. Matt Connell is an Early Childhood and Special Education teacher in Western Kansas. In addition to teaching three- and four-year-olds with special needs, Matt is also the co-chair of his district's Assistive Technology team."

"Collaborative multimedia presentations enable small groups like teaching teams to work together to: * present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways * engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience"

"Although students may not become augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) clinical specialists, they often will work with individuals demonstrating complex communication needs who benefit from AAC. This necessitates knowledge of some basic principles of assessment including AAC assessment as a team process involving planning and implementing interventions for current and future communication needs; the inclusion of no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech communication systems; and assessing communication needs with partners in the individual's social network. The assessment also must include a capability profile and feature matching to select the appropriate components of the AAC system. Because the system we provide for today will become the system we use tomorrow, assessment must be considered an ongoing process throughout the lifespan of the individual."