Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Including visual supports, such as a self-management checklist, during vocational training organizes activities to aid students’ independence as they learn expectations and routines.

This video shows how Mr. Broden, a middle school special education teacher, uses the Sample Grading Rubric for Students with Complex Access Needs and demonstrates how to: identify prerequisite skill access points to TEKS provide instruction that integrates individual accommodations and modifications

This video shows how one educator adapts age-appropriate books and texts in ways that match her students’ unique strengths and abilities to increase interest and engagement, support vocabulary development, and strengthen understanding of concepts and experiences.

This video shows how one educator uses a personal communication dictionary to document student-specific actions and their meanings.