Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Student Portfolios for Students with Complex Access Needs
In this video, Ayo Jones shares tips and strategies on student portfolios.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Significant Cognitive Disabilities, ARD/IEP Supports, Instruction
Building a Foundation
The purpose of this series is to create a standard of high-quality instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities across the state of Texas. Each course in the series explores a Quality Indicator from the Rubric of Effective Practices.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Teaching Literacy to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
The purpose of this training is to give teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities the information and tools needed to provide meaningful literacy instruction and experiences.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Instruction
Connecting Communication and Instruction for Students with Complex Access Needs
Learning Objectives: Define communication and establish the importance of teaching communication skills. Demonstrate the relationship between communication and behavior. Review considerations in developing and acquiring communication systems. Investigate student response modes. Explore strategies
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
April Monthly Instructional Guide for Students with Complex Access Needs
This month’s focus is on acknowledging progress. This is where you celebrate the results of all the hard work you have accomplished while implementing the best practices from the Rubric of Effective Practices for Students with Complex Access Needs and the Administrator Companion Document to the
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
May Monthly Instructional Guide for Students with Complex Access Needs
This month’s focus is on wrapping up the school year. All year, you have used the Rubric of Effective Practices for Students with Complex Access Needs and the Administrator Companion Document to the Rubric of Effective Practices for Students with Complex Access Needs to guide your practice. This
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Autism, Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Behavior, Blind/Visually Impaired, Deafblind, Instruction
Strategies for Personnel to Effectively Transport Students with Disabilities
This resource is intended for school transportation staff and includes information on how to support students with disabilities on the school bus. This resource includes sections for supporting student behavior on the bus, disability characteristics, disability-specific support strategies, and
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ARD/IEP Supports, Behavior, Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Autism, Evaluation
Data Collection: Frequency Recording
This video shows one educator sharing how she uses a frequency data collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to determine a need for new/updated IEP goals or behavior intervention.
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ARD/IEP Supports, Behavior, Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Autism, Evaluation
Data Collection: Interval Recording
This video shows one educator sharing how she uses an interval data collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to determine a need for new
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction, Autism
Recasting
This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the strategy of recasting to model articulation, grammar, and vocabulary. Recasting is repeating what a student says with an expansion as a means of giving implicit and direct feedback. It promotes using complete and grammatically correct sentences
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