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Schools must do more to help families overcome language barriers

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residents who speak a language other than English at home. I talk to a lot of parents, both as a parent myself and in my work advocating for language services. What I hear is that while public, magnet, and charter schools are legally required to offer language services, schools simply aren’t using interpreters as much as they should.

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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

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It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

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How we turned around our English language learner (ELL) program

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Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. Some were students with learning disabilities. This way, students can track their own progress and achievements, and teachers can easily monitor and share data.

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Flipped learning is changing the face of special ed

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44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. If schools are to meet the learning needs of every student, including those with disabilities, then “we have to think differently about how we provide instruction,” Hill said. Flipped learning and one-to-one are a powerful combo for some populations.

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Helping All Learners Achieve Success on Their Own Terms

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An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

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1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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A virtual reality, AI-boosted system helps students with autism improve social skills

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For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Right now, the closest we can come to that is training peers.

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