Jessica, your article on "Making Math Accessible" hit a chord.
This is such a powerful title, "When will they stop ignoring students with disabilities?"
I feel the frustration. Students are entering my class at the middle school level deficient in all areas of vital math skills, such as knowledge of number properties and operations, measurement, basic geometry, data analysis, statistics, probability, and algebra as the website stated. It is alarming that no one mentions the fact that too many of the students with disabilities score at the bottom in math and science, since they are highly elated to each other, and rarely go on to get advanced degrees or go to college. I always felt that one of the major factors in keeping students with disabilities from math success was their lack of reading ability. It makes since that one critical issue which is overlooked is the fact that science and math educational materials in our schools are not accessible to students with disabilities. As a math teacher, this is something I will work harder on; making my notes and text information more accessible.