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College Students With Learning Disabilities Are Asking For More Support. Will They Get It?

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College students with learning disabilities experienced a sudden rupture of the status quo this spring when most of their courses moved online. In some cases, the change interfered with the coping strategies students use to learn.

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Virtual academies remove barriers and unlock student potential

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Since the pandemic, it has become clear to many parents that online learning is a better fit for their children, prompting them to seek alternative school options for the best educational outcomes, like virtual academies.

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ReadSpeaker Announces Text-to-Speech Integration and Certified Partnership with Moodle, the World’s Largest Learning Platform

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As of September 1, ReadSpeaker’s accessibility and engagement tools are fully integrated into Moodle LMS, expanding learning opportunities for more than 200 million learners. ReadSpeaker is a great innovator in this space and brings our users the most trusted text-to-speech enhanced learning tools available today.”.

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10 steps for making your online courses accessible for all students

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UDL is tough enough in a face-to-face environment, but the real challenge might be how to implement the principles in an online world where students’ abilities and learning styles differ drastically. Knowing Where to Start.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? The Case For Shutting Schools Down Instead of Moving Classes Online. Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.

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From the Marine Corps to the Classroom

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I feel like I've had so much life experience and everything, but then I still have to go through the motions with the credentialing program, when I feel like what I could use is a little more hands-on learning. During the day, in this program, we are substitute teachers, but then at night, we're doing online learning.

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Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed for Students with Disabilities including Neurodivergent Learners

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of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability. iii] [iv] ; furthermore, 19% of US undergraduate students reported having a disability, and of these, 35% reported a learning disability [v] for 2016 (the most current data we could find). For instance, in 2019, 6.2%