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"This free webcast provides information on effective instructional procedures to teach literacy skills to individuals with ASD and limited speech."

"Is there is a way to narrow the middle school science and math gap for children with disabilities? According to one researcher, Dr. Matthew Marino of Washington State University, perhaps it has already arrived, via a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) curriculum in a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework underpinned by nascent assistive and instructional technology."

"The Center reviewed an array of software products and digital materials currently used to develop or distribute elementary and secondary instructional materials. The purpose of the review was to identify the extent to which product developers or publishers offered readily discoverable and publicly available information about product accessibility. Using the Section 508 standards for physical and sensory access as a benchmark, the Center has color coded products green, yellow, or red. "

"This section will cover: 1. Math Access Support (Assistive Technology) 2. Concept Support (Instructional sites) 3. Math Apps for use on different iDevices 4. Calculator Options 5. Math Resources 6. Low Tech to High Tech AT Options"

Char Shryock's website, full of curriculum, instruction, and assessment resources

This is the moment of the assistive technology Big Bang--that enlightening moment at our charter school where the special education department's framework of instruction began to re-work, re-think and re-imagine all the strategies and tools that AT would give us and how it would allow our students to reach higher potential.

"The iPad Accessibility Features Module is a 2 to 2.5 hour module designed to deepen the participants understanding of iPad features that support students with special needs. This facilitator guide is designed to help you instruct educators, parents, and/or students on the use of iPad accessibility and keyboarding features as well as the iPad basic features that can be used to support the learning needs of students as they access the curriculum. A variety of handouts are included within the iPad Facilitation Manual"

"The D75 Assistive Technology Evaluation Unit serves to evaluate students within our programs for use with assistive technology devices. In addition, students can be evaluated for physical access to these devices, to classroom computers, and to instructional materials. "

"Greetings and welcome to the Digital Wish eBuilder, Beta Testing Program! We're excited to have you be among the first to try out the eBuilder, a new digital authoring tool that lets anyone publish books, lesson plans, and content for both Apple and Android mobile devices! With the tool, authors can easily bring instructional content to their mobile devices with just a few easy steps."

"The first one is about the Declaration of Independence and uses One Republic's Too Late to Apologize. The second video, which won an Emmy for Best Informational / Instructional Program in 2012, is about women's suffrage and it uses Lady Gaga's Bad Romance to tell this important story. These two music videos make great additions to any history teacher's history lesson."

"The Accommodations Wheel is a resource educators can use to find and develop opportunities to provide students equal access to instruction and assessments"

"Math Webinar Series "Maximizing ALL Students' Mathematical Learning Through the Use of Powerful Instructional Strategies and Techniques" Archive:"

" In the AT world, mobile devices such as iPods, iPads, and iPhones are providing new and exciting options to access a huge array of applications.  This blog site is devoted to the use of these devices, highlighting apps that are particularly relevant to young children and school-aged individuals with disabilities, their families, and their instructional teams."

"A space to share my own creations, and other interesting bits that cover combining assistive technology, instructional technology and curriculum creation for students with special needs. My personal passion within teaching is finding a way to teach my students the functional academics they need to learn, while still meeting the requirements to teach to state standards. The fusion is possible, but it is a lot of work. I hope that this will grow to become a repository of sample materials that other teachers can use to support their classrooms."

UDI class checklist

"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."

wiki with resources on UDL, diff instruction, etc.

"The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 24 states, building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The shared goal of the NCSC partners is to ensure that students with the most significant cognitive disabilities achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options. The wiki and the materials hosted here help educators accomplish the NCSC goals by supporting instruction aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The materials on the wiki can also be used in states that are not using the CCSS. Much of the content that is covered on the wiki will also appear in other Mathematics and English Language Arts state standards."

I was asked to help paint the 'big picture' of technology use with relation to the education of students with disabilities. My viewpoint is (albeit, perhaps a biased one) that technology has the potential to be beneficial in almost every aspect of educating students with disabilities. However, as I was presenting, questions started to arise as to how technology - specifically assistive technology - fit into various initiatives and mandates - Response to Intervention (RtI), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) and the Assistive Technology (AT) mandate within IDEA. We had some lively discussion about these but I decided to put together a graphic to begin fueling the discussion and think about the relationships between these various initiatives and mandates. The graphic has been revised several times as my thinking has changed over time.

"This website provides guidelines for teaching literacy skills to learners with special needs, especially learners with complex communication needs * Autism spectrum disorders * Cerebral palsy * Down syndrome * Developmental apraxia * Multiple disabilities. The website provides information on: * What skills to teach * How to teach these skills * Videotaped examples of instruction with learners with special needs. "