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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion. Discuss the need to broaden participation and opportunities for people with disabilities in your department/college. Jennifer E. Garland, Ph.

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5 ways to leverage UDL for student inclusivity

eSchool News

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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Summarized transcription versus real-time captioning: What’s best?

eSchool News

Summarized transcription: What and why Summarized transcription, a form of “speech-to-text services,” provides “meaning-for-meaning” transcriptions by summarizing the essence of a discussion or other spoken content. This not only aligns with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles but also showcases a commitment to inclusive education.

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#6: 5 ways to leverage UDL for student inclusivity

eSchool News

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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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

Edsurge

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. What is Universal Design for Learning? That can be a website, a blog, a discussion board.

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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

Edsurge

The school followed suit, developing an initial Individual Education Plan (IEP) and throughout the year, made a series of reactionary amendments to try to keep up with her evolving needs. Our daughter is now in third grade, and we recently attended her annual meeting to discuss progress on her IEP. Fast forward to this school year.

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Special Ed Students Have Lost Many Services. Here’s How SEL Strategies Can Help.

Edsurge

All teachers and students are currently experiencing challenges with accessibility, the promotion of emotional and physical wellness, and academic progress—issues that the special education community knows all too well. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating? And our teachers are under tremendous pressure.