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National Center for Technology Innovation
Advancing Technology Innovations for All Students

Universal Design [UD]

wheelchair accessibility sign Accommodate the needs of all learners and develop various approaches to instruction, curriculum materials, and assessment. Resources include design guidelines, presentations, and strategies to implement UDL to address the diverse needs of students to achieve their academic potential.

  • Liberated Learning: A University/Corporate Partnership with Global Reach

    Posted on April 6th, 2005

    Liberated Learning is an automated captioning system that enables teachers’ lectures to appear on a screen as they speak. Students can read as the professor talks and, at the end of the session, the system provides a text transcript and multimedia notes available on line after speech recognition errors have been edited out of the system. This alternative to conventional note-taking for students with disabilities also provides help to non-disabled students—they, too, can use the final notes and can benefit from having a visual lecture as well as an auditory one. The tool assists a range of learners, including typically-abled, quadriplegics, second language learners, students with learning disabilities and people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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  • Center for Applied Special Technology

    (CAST) is a not-for-profit education research and development organization that uses technology to make education more flexible and accessible for all students, especially those with disabilities.

  • National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum

    The National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum is a project established by Center for Applied Special Technology, provides a vision of how new curricula, teaching practices, and policies can be woven together to create practical approaches for improved access to the general curriculum by students with disabilities.

  • National File Format Initiative

    National File Format Initiative, endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education on July 27th, 2004, the voluntary standard aims to guide the production and electronic distribution of flexible digital instructional materials such as textbooks so they can be more easily converted to Braille, text-to-speech, and other accessible formats.

  • RTI (Response to Intervention) Wire

    organizes categories of free resources online that address RTI as an emerging approach to the diagnosis of learning disabilities. Sample topics include Understanding the Model, Using Teams to Problem-Solve, Selecting the Right Intervention, Monitoring Student Progress, and Graphing Data for Visual Analysis.

  • What is Universal Design?

    This Web site supports the teaching and study of universal design through instructional materials and open forums. It provides a place where educators can interact with each other and exchange information.

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