UDL, universal design for learning, aims to accommodate the needs of all learners and develop various approaches to instruction, curriculum materials, and assessment. Resources include strategies to implement UDL in the classroom in order to address the diverse needs of students to achieve their academic potential. 

 

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Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social – and Educational - Networking (PDF)

Share this survey from NSBA with your administration. Discuss how to address the recommendations about school policies and social networking.

District Assistive Technology Program Implementation Models

Learn what North Attleborough Public Schools are doing with their district wide model incorporating Assistive Technology into the classrooms. This resource includes forms that are a result of the collaboration of ideas among various Assistive Technology sites.

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation is a professional development module created by Access Center staff for technical assistance providers or district or State personnel. This module provides background information about differentiated instruction, demonstrates differentiation strategies, and addresses issues of implementation at the school and district level.

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Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

This Issue Brief urges groups working on children's issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.

Interactive Map of Preparedness Resources

This tool provides an accessible, interactive directory of federal, regional, state, and local disability-related emergency management resources. The map contains information on regional branches of FEMA and ADA&IT Technical Assistance Centers, Governor's websites and state disability resource agencies, a directory of ILCs and SILCs by state, state Citizen Corps and American Red Cross Chapters, as well as links to State and local Emergency Management Agencies.

InTime Videos

Watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies.

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I've Got a Palm in My Pocket (PDF)

This article discusses the advantages of using palm pilots to increase student achievement in an inclusive classroom. The assistive technologies embedded in handheld computers offer benefits to students both inside and outside the classroom. 

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Maryland Assistive Technology Network

The Maryland Assistive Technology Network (MATN) provides assistive technology specialists information on the most up-to-date AT policies, practices, and devices. CTE offers professional development opportunities to MATN members through its semi-annual institutes with nationally acclaimed leaders in assistive technology, regional meetings, and the MATN Online Web site.

Maryland Online IEP

The Maryland Online IEP is a tool developed by Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services in Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education with funding from IDEA Part B, the U.S. Department of Education. The tool produces and maintains one complete record of IEP information for each child. The result is a high level of data integrity and accuracy from which educators and the families they serve can make effective decisions.

MATNOnline Wiki

This wiki provides educators in Maryland with resources to support the education of all students in a Universally Designed for Learning Classroom supports students with disabilities with the use of Assistive Technology.

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Simmons Assistive Technology Showcase

The Assistive Technology Showcase wiki provides handouts from the 2008 CEC Assistive Technology Showcase, sponsored by Simmons College and Apple Computer, Inc.

The Family Center on Technology and Disability: Emergency Preparedness

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Universal Design Information Brief (Word)

This information brief describes the history and emergence of universal design in education, key organizations using universal design, and ways in which universal design can be used to make educational curricula and instruction accessible.

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Using a Universal Design Approach to Find Barriers and Solutions in the Curriculum (Word)

The purpose of the Finding Barriers and Solutions Exercise is to provide educators, administrators, and family members with the opportunity to share ways of making learning more accessible and effective for all students.

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