Special populations refers to students in identified groups, such as urban, rural, and minority students, English language learners, and students with disabilities.  Resources include creative instructional strategies to meet the needs of these students using technology.

 

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Assistive Technology for Alternate Assessment and Evidence-Based Practice

Find out some ways to use technology for ongoing accessible diagnostic and prescriptive curriculum planning and alternate assessment through general education curriculum software that has been designed for universal access and provides scaffolds for differentiated instruction.

Digital Divide and EdTech

Browse a list of tools that provide fact sheets, research, articles, and online resources for addressing the multicultural digital divide.

Emergency Management for Schools

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) sponsors Emergency Management for Schools trainings to provide support to school staff and administrators interested in enhancing their preparedness efforts. On this site, viewers can access four one-hour Web casts, each featuring one of the four phases of emergency management: Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. These Web casts can be played in conjunction with the Power Point presentations made available to enhance schools' training experiences.

Introduction to Assistive Technology

This module provides an overview of assistive technology used by children with disabilities ages 5-11: what it is and how it can be used to promote independent participation in elementary classrooms.

Assistive Technology Training Online Project

Literacy - Teacher to Teacher

The annual Teacher to Teacher summer workshops sponsored by the U.S.Department of Education have become popular places for teachers to pick up lesson ideas and teaching strategies from accomplished colleagues (and share some of their own). This page collects the 2007 presentations and handouts from literacy workshop sessions around the USA. Materials are provided on teaching reading, comprehension, vocabulary and writing across the curriculum, working with struggling adolescent readers, narrative writing, expository compositions, persuasive writing, reading and writing in math and science and with limited English proficient students, plus literature and the arts. Browse dozens of articles and click anything of interest to read a summary. Middle grades teachers and literacy coaches will want to examine the several presentations on unlocking the mysteries of informational text.

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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.

Math Matrix

The math matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of math for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

CITEd

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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Reading Matrix

This matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of reading for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

NCTI

Schools Moving Up

This resource contains profiles of schools throughout the country and how they are improving student achievement. Detailed information is given on each school's improvement process. Schools Moving Up also offers online events and other resources focusing on professional development, diverse learners, and the No Child Left Behind Act.

WestEd

Supporting Struggling Writers Using Technology

Review this report on writing technologies for students with special needs to learn how technology can help students improve their writing skills.

Texas Assistive Technology Network AT Modules

Assistive Technology in Texas Schools Series Each module in the Assistive Technology in Texas Schools Series was designed for use by regional education service center and district staff responsible for assistive technology (AT) capacity-building in the state of Texas. The modules can be used to build knowledge and skills in AT service delivery at various levels throughout the state education system. The content of each module directly supports the legal mandate of IDEA’97 that requires that AT devices and services be provided to a student with disabilities if required as a part of the student’s Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). These modules are aplicable to every state, not just Texas.

Texas Assistive Technology Network (TATN)