eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

As schools make recorded lessons available to students online, they may not be making them accessible. stating that both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in their online lectures, courses, podcasts, and other educational materials. Next page: Getting Onboard with Accessibility.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Accessibility is a “critical key” when it comes to leveraging technology for all students — including those with disabilities, according to a new toolkit offering accessibility resources and tips for state and district education leaders.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Educators in Miami-Dade County Public Schools use Gemini to generate quizzes and answer keys, and students are creating study materials aligned to concepts they’re struggling with for personalized tutoring and support.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Learning is still, and always has been, a social activity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2015

In rural southern Mississippi, finding enough qualified speech-language professionals to fully serve a growing population of students with speech and language delays can be problematic. News Online Learning Special Education Top News' Stone County School District in Wiggins, Miss.,

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

Persistent teacher shortages and the cost and time required to fill special education roles often exacerbate the strain. Adding to the complexity, Parts B and C of the IDEA mandate that all children with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) in the least restrictive environment (LRE).

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. The challenge: Remote learning requirements keep changing, and I can’t keep up.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This story on data privacy in special education originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. To ensure data privacy, legal standards such as FERPA and IDEA have been designed, which require schools to limit the access to the students’ PII.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Four years ago, my team and I designed, planned, and implemented a research-based, whole-child wraparound approach to special education. This whole-child wraparound model is even more critical now that students and educators are facing what may be the most difficult year yet.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting. There are different types of learning environments that serve students with special needs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

During this launch month, Capstone is offering a special Educator Preview to all educators who want to explore the new resource for free. AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), ensuring it’s accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Tobii Dynavox, the global leader in assistive technology for communication, today announced the new generation of its special education platform Boardmaker. Boardmaker provides a fully inclusive education environment for parents, special education teachers and schools to millions of students around the world.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

PresenceLearning, the leading provider of live online special education related services for K-12 schools, reached the milestone of delivering more than three million teletherapy sessions to students nationwide. This comes at the one-year mark of schools dealing with learning during a global health crisis. About PresenceLearning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. John no longer had access to a laptop. I was ecstatic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Now, the certified academic language therapist and licensed dyslexia teacher at Griffis Elementary School in Caddo Mills (Texas) is leading the way in using technology to help some of her dyslexic students develop a love for reading. Next page: How educators are using Bookshare to reach students with dyslexia. Making a difference.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2015

Michigan now allows Medicaid reimbursement for online speech therapy, which could help with access. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services policy, live, online speech-language therapy, also known as telepractice, is simply “subject to the same provisions as therapy provided to a patient in person.”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“When using Foundations in Learning’s reading program Access Code , my language arts resource students made remarkable growth in their ability to tackle longer, multi-syllabic words, and this translated to better fluency and greater confidence. Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”. Empowering Clinicians.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. She wasn't involved in the day-to-day educational interventions like we are.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Texthelp , a global leader in literacy and accessibility technology, today announced that they will acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc., a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. WOBURN, Mass.,

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

When Marisha Speights first started as a speech language pathologist in preschools serving affluent families in Nashville, Tennessee, she used the typical screening and assessment measures that she believed and was taught worked well. It was, I dont think this child has a speech or language issue, but the test says theyre at risk.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2018

Many educators—general classroom teachers and special educators as well—also are looking for resources to help neuro-typical students better their peers with autism. Special educators and families are hungry for advice and encouragement. Providing services for children with autism is a growing challenge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our overall objective was to expand access to literacy and use real-world data in curating and individualizing collections to better serve the needs of the district’s highly diverse student population. We’re a minority-majority district with approximately 6,600 English Learners (ELs) and 5,200 students classified for special education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The first complex challenge the UW College of Education will use AI-human collaboration to tackle is co-creating and co-evaluating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with disabilities in Wyoming and beyond. Serving as the cornerstone of special education ( Yell et al.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Is easily accessible at school or home. Complies with State and Common Core educational standards. HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings. About Super Duper Publications.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Learning is still, and always has been, a social activity.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

As powerful as answering those questions can be for making systemic changes, there is a second path a district can follow: by drawing upon a data sample that spans three years, educators can evaluate the quality, completeness, and consistency of their IEP practices both at the student and aggregate levels.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2016

As more students on the autism spectrum enter classrooms each year, technology has the potential to help those students have equal access to educational opportunities. Here are 5 apps to help children and adults with autism develop skills, learn, and interact better with others.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, general education teachers have joined special education teachers in emphasizing the need for inclusivity in the classroom. By creating inclusive classrooms, educators aim to foster learning environments that are equitable and nurturing to every student.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

About 14 percent of all public school students receive special education services, and for many of them the switch to remote learning has been difficult on families and the schools that teach them every day. Asynchronous means that it’s offline, so you can access it in your own time. And then of course, accessibility.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Needless to say, our access to reliable data improved significantly once we had a unified literacy program in place. Easy access to valuable data. This was a big shift for us because we now have access to an ongoing collection of data points quickly to better support students. Better reading test scores.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. We asked the same questions to more than 1,000 special educators and they added feeling exhausted, frustrated and confused. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. –Michele Dick, Education Specialist, Wacom. It is time to find the balance again.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

They often do this by intentionally choosing language that shapes the learning environment. Beyond Teacher Talk: Shaping Student Language with Anchor Charts When it comes to the whole class, children need a shared set of principles for participation. Most of these principles will play out with some kind of language.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

With Black students not even scoring half of the overall percentage, we’ve just gotten a sign to ring the alarm on equity in science education. This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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