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"To date, there are few guidelines to support clinicians and manufacturers in the design of effective AAC systems for beginning communicators. When AAC systems are well designed, they may enhance communication and language outcomes for beginning communicators with complex communication needs. However, poorly-designed AAC systems may potentially interfere with language learning and communication effectiveness. In this session, we will discuss guidelines for the design of effective AAC technologies for beginning communicators with complex communication needs, including infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with developmental disabilities (e.g., autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome) as well as older individuals with significant cognitive impairments. The session will present research results from recent studies and will suggest clinical guidelines to improve the design of AAC systems based on these research results. "

"This site supports educators and students in their teaching and study of universal design. Universal design is an approach to the design of all products and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability, or situation."

"Welcome to UDL presented by CAST for the SSTR1. The Universal Design for Learning Workshop is designed to introduce participants to the concepts and principles of Universal Design for Learning and to provide practical applications for your practice."

"Designing Options for Every Learner: Universal Design for Learning"

"Gateway to Language and Learning© is a series of pages sets designed for children and adults who communicate through the use of a augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC). Created in 1997, Gateway© was the first core word page set designed for use on a dynamic display device. It continues to be the only communication page set designed from a developmental perspective. Authored by Joan Bruno"

"In response to all of the attention given to the flipped classroom, I proposed The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education in which the viewing of videos (often discussed on the primary focus of the flipped classroom) becomes a part of a larger cycle of learning based on an experiential cycle of learning. Universal Design for Learning has also been in the news lately as a new report Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move was released by the National Center on UDL, May, 2012. This post describes the principles of Universal Design for Learning and how they naturally occur when a full cycle of learning, including ideas related to the flipped classroom, are used within the instructional process."

"Manage your entire life from the most convenient, accessible, electronic device you have, your iPhone. Student TA allows the most astute scholar to manage their most challenging courses on a beautiful, luxurious design. With the ability to organize nearly every aspect of a student's life, Student TA is conveniently equipped with all new top-of-the-line features and tools designed to help you. With premium luxury design, comes premium features', including a revolutionary new interface of My Planner, and encompassing pertinent aspects such as Courses, Assignments, Organizations, Events, and Professors."

"UDL - Universal Design for Learning The pedagogical framework to designing learning environments to teach and to support ALL learners! Curated by Kathleen McClaskey"

UDL Implementation: A Tale of Four Districts is the story of four school districts taking the journey into the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) implementation process. Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland, Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, Cecil County Public Schools in Maryland and Chelmsford Public Schools in Massachusetts participated in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project to explore and pilot processes and tools developed to support UDL Implementation within their own unique districts. The story is told primarily through the voices of the dedicated educator leaders from these districts and the UDL facilitators who supported them. During the one-year grant, the districts worked with CAST, Inc. to develop and implement an effective and sustainable district plan to support the integration of Universal Design for Learning.

"Ten Simple Steps Toward Universal Design of Online Courses Implementing the principles of universal design in online learning means anticipating the diversity of students that may enroll in your course and planning accordingly. These ten key elements will greatly enhance the accessibility and usability of your course for students with and without disabilities."

"The Center for Universal Design in Education (CUDE) develops and collects resources to help educators apply universal design to all aspects of the educational experience: instruction student services information technology, and physical spaces."

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing educational environments that enable all learners to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. This is accomplished by simultaneously reducing barriers to the curriculum and providing rich supports for learning.

"This website is designed for both the general education teacher and the special education teacher to learn about universal design for learning and how all students can access core curriculum using alternate options and for those students with IEPs or 504 plans, using assistive technology to help in that access"

"Batalugu.com was founded on the belief that anyone can create nicely written (possibly rhymed), beautifully illustrated and well designed, so that the printed version of your book will have the quality of a store bought children's book. If you are a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, or have any children in your life, you would probably like to write and illustrate a unique story especially for them. You can also create books with them. The book you have created can be shared on line with everyone. Our friendly, easy to use on-line tools will help you create the books you wish to dedicate to your children. They will take you step by step as you write, rhyme, illustrate, design and print. Registration to our website, as well as the creation and sharing of your books online are FREE of charge."

"Universal Design for Learning Dialogue Guides Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that can help you turn the challenges posed by high standards and increasing learner diversity into opportunities to maximize learning for every student. Drawing upon new knowledge of how the brain works and new technologies and media now available for teaching and learning, UDL frames a systematic approach to setting goals, choosing or creating flexible materials and media, and assessing students accurately. "

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"iSolveIt is a mobile digital learning environment that supports the development of logical thinking and reasoning skills, which are essential competencies of algebra and mathematics in general. The environment includes a collection of tablet-based puzzles that have been designed using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)."

"This paper explores how new digital technologies can be used to design curricula that are flexible enough to adapt readily to individual differences. The authors propose that universal design for learning-as the confluence of advances in the neuroscience of human variability and in multimedia technologies-can create an "ecology for learning" which provides rich, diverse, student-centered learning pathways for all students. "

"Crack The Books™ is the first standards based, core curriculum aligned digital textbook that includes both interactive enhancements and universal design accessibility features. Designed for all students, from children with special needs to students who are academically gifted, our Crack The Books™ interactive textbooks give educators a powerful new teaching tool to help students of all academic skill levels meet state standards for reading comprehension. Our Crack The Books™ textbooks are the first interactive Textbooks that can be adjusted for reading level."

"Braille has come a long way since its invention in the 19th century, but it's still tough to apply it to the highly-visual storytelling we see in comics. This realization led Phillipp Meyer, a Copenhagen-based interaction designer, to create the first comic for the blind."