eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

According to the World Health Organization , around 15 percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability or special educational needs—and of that 15 percent, 2 to 4 percent experience significant difficulties in functioning. percent) who are 15 or older and have significant difficulties in functioning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Classes have a wide mix of strengths and weaknesses, and a one-size-fits-all curriculum does not meet most children’s needs. In 1990, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) renewed our national focus on the least-restrictive environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. Overcoming Disabilities. Immersing in Education.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

I understand the pressure teachers feel to cover the standards and move through their curriculum. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning. Teachers want all students to be successful.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

With generative AI emerging as a pivotal element in the dynamic educational landscape of 2023, Imagine Learning conducted the survey to explore the perceptions, current practices, and future aspirations of educators who have already embraced technology in the classroom.

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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., under review ).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In a recent edWebinar , Aimee Dearmon, Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), says the disruption of routines, schedules, classroom layouts, and necessary social distancing protocols will be very difficult for our most vulnerable students with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2015

Understanding Dyslexia is an online program that helps teachers identify students who have dyslexia, a learning disability that affects as much as 10 percent of the population. Curriculum News Professional Development (PD) Special Education Top News' The program also explains how to help these students learn to read.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The most common of all neuro-cognitive disorders, dyslexia impacts about 20 percent of the US population and represents 80-90 percent percent of all individuals who have learning disabilities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This includes considerations for students with disabilities, such as providing text alternatives for images and accommodating various learning styles. Curriculum diversity and inclusion: Review and update curricula to be more inclusive and representative of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

rated, ensuring Capstone Interactive is accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities. Among the improvements, the eBook platform and reader will be Section 508 compliant and WCAG 2.1

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

The belief that lowering reading expectations benefits struggling readers not only hurts students’ competency but under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is against the law. Schools need to set challenging goals for students with disabilities while also scaffolding up the content. In the case Endrew F.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Personalize curriculum and support: Children continue to face learnings gaps, particularly in math and sciences, and students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and other special learning needs will require additional support that is not always offered within a traditional classroom. According to the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ultimately, we want the students to have the skills they need to increase academic engagement and decrease their disruptive behaviors so that they can access the school curriculum.” To test the intervention, approximately 50 public high school students from Jefferson City, Hallsville and Fulton will participate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I started building an esports curriculum and, every time, I got shot down, I would add an element to the curriculum addressing the reasons I was told we couldn’t have a team. Ten percent of the students in GSE have some kind of disability. That’s not true, either. Kids love socializing through video games.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Adjusting to a rigorous curriculum, learning new skills and understanding the nuances of classroom learning are just a few of the many pressures students face. For students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia and related language processing difficulties, these struggles are amplified even in the most ideal learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

My role in launching specialized schools in Louisiana for students with low-incidence disabilities reinforced the importance of educational options, a need that is universal regardless of a student’s abilities, grade level, learning style, preferences, social class, and geographic location.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

When educators know how to identify a student with a learning or language disability, they can act immediately to begin remediation. Here are steps educators can take to support struggling readers in middle or high school.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Anthony Baker, project director for Digital Promise, which has further developed and researched the Challenge-Based Learning model, explains that this approach enables students to make meaningful connections to their science curriculum while also answering the age-old student question: “Why do I need to learn this?”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. ’s curriculum division will form a new company, named Building Wings , which includes the products Readtopia® and First Author®. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability, or language are no longer barriers.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

Students from low-income families, those with disabilities, and English language learners were disproportionately affected. The differences were quite pronounced, equating to about five months of learning in math and 11 months—more than a full school year—in English language arts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Eventually, I felt I had no choice but to finally take my son for a thorough evaluation that revealed not only ADHD but also dyslexia and dysgraphia, a writing-related learning disability. Teaching dyslexic students requires more than just following a curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2017

By Calvin Hennick Tools give students with special needs the same access to science and math activities as other schoolchildren.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As I got to know them, I saw that herculean efforts to mask their reading disabilities revealed intelligence, determination, and traumatic relationships to school. Lucy Calkins revised her popular but widely criticized “Units of Study” curriculum to include phonics-focused lessons.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

As schools transition to increased use of digital books and reading technologies, educators and school librarians are creatively integrating digital titles and Sora into curriculum programs and pleasure reading. Sora is the award-winning student reading app available in more than 53,000 schools worldwide.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

TouchMath, a multisensory math program that makes learning foundational math concepts accessible and clear for students who struggle to understand grade-level content, designed the DySc to identify students as young as three who may be at risk for dyscalculia, a specific learning disability in mathematics.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Integrate AI in curriculum : Incorporate AI-related tasks to teach content and digital literacy simultaneously. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Curriculum itself must be personalized in order to truly meet the needs of students with learning disabilities. Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

EdSurge talked with with Kimberly Tew, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction in Robbinsville, New Jersey, to get a better understanding of how districts are preparing for the mandate. So, I think the state mandate around LGBTQIA and disability resources is really timely, considering the work we’re already doing.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Thanks to tech tools and awareness groups, more students have gone further in higher education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

The Populace study reported that today’s parents want more individualized educational experiences for their children, with greater emphasis on students’ interests and personal/career goals than on a one-size-fits-all curriculum. Throughout history, Americans have always been willing to pay (through taxation) to educate our country’s youth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2023

” Conferences offer the opportunity for educators–from administrators and classroom teachers to IT leaders and curriculum directors–to attend sessions targeted to their interests and their individual school or district needs. And it’s the kind of learning that will change the story of education.” Get started here.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the United States boasts a diverse ecosystem of schooling options, it lacks a truly pluralistic system due to preferences for local control, along with resistance to a government-prescribed curriculum. Pluralistic systems in the United States face constitutional challenges, particularly regarding funding for religious schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Before anything else happens, we must recognize that our students miss school for a variety of reasons , ranging from bullying, to a lack of established relationships and engaging curriculum, to feeling unsafe physically or emotionally. Begin tracking chronic absence data early, no later than kindergarten.

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