The goal of this module is to discuss how to support interaction and teach communication as students engage in academic instruction across the school day. Self-directed and facilitated versions available.

How can we design learning experiences so that they are meaningful and challenging for all learners? Whether you are designing instruction for in-person classroom experiences, online synchronous experiences, remote asynchronous experiences, or anything in between and beyond, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help us anticipate learner variability and make instruction flexible and useful for all.

The AEM Navigator facilitates the process of decision-making around accessible formats of educational materials for individual students. It assists teams in making informed, accurate, and multi-step decisions related to determining a student's need for accessible formats, selecting the format(s) needed, acquiring materials, and determining the supports needed by the student, family, and school staff.

Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches.

This module provides an overview of the effective instructional practices for Mathematics and relates them specifically to students with significant cognitive disabilities who will complete the alternate assessment.

This instructional video demonstrates how to make a weighted marker to help students improve their hand stability while writing. (Time: 2:06)

A publication aimed at parents of students with SCD aimed at informing parents about how grades are assessesed. "The purpose

This module focuses on composing, decomposing, and comparing numbers and how these concepts support students' understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

This module provides an introduction to Universal Design for Learning as it relates to the Common Core State Standards and students with significant cognitive disabilities.

This module provides an introduction to the College and Career Readiness Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics for teachers who work with students with significant cognitive disabilities who will complete the alternate assessment.

This website provides links to resources that support teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities.

This module provides an overview of principles of instruction in English Language Arts and relates them specifically to students with significant cognitive disabilities who will complete the alternate assessment.

This module describes shared reading, a reading approach that emphasizes interaction and engagement with books. In the DLM assessment, students frequently engage in a shared reading of a text before rereading a text to respond to questions.

In this module, participants will learn to identify the components of an Anchor-Read-Apply text comprehension lesson, match purposes for reading with anchor activities, and describe the difference between asking questions to assess comprehension and teaching students to understand text in increasingly complex ways.

This module reviews the Anchor-Read-Apply framework for reading comprehension. Participants will learn how to generate purposes for reading using the DLM Essential Elements and review activities to help students activate background knowledge.