Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
Sample Grading Rubric for Students with Complex Access Needs
This rubric can be used to obtain a more specific and objective activity grade.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Autism, Behavior, Instruction, Significant Cognitive Disabilities
Behavioral Momentum
Behavioral Momentum is an instructional strategy that helps students transition from easy tasks to more challenging tasks, building confidence and engagement by creating a pattern of success.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Instruction
October Monthly Instructional Guide for Students with Complex Access Needs
This month’s focus is on teaching with rigor. The content aligns with Quality Indicator I: Alignment with State Standards and Quality Indicator IV: Differentiated Instruction on 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
Monthly Instructional Guides for Students with Complex Access Needs
Our monthly instructional guides were designed to help special education teachers in self-contained classrooms navigate the school year. Serving students with a variety of complex access needs, these teachers require organization, creativity, and extensive knowledge of curriculum, instructional
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion, Instruction
UDL Lesson Plan Form Template
This sample UDL Lesson Plan Form can be used to encourage teachers to design lessons that meet the unique learning characteristics of their students. It allows teachers to individualize their lessons based on multiple means of engagement, representation, action/expression, and materials/resources
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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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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Behavior
Behavior as Communication
In this video, Ayo Jones discusses why behavior is communication.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Behavior
Proactive Behavior Strategies
In this video, Ayo Jones talks about how positive behavioral supports can be implemented throughout instructional activities to maintain focus and engagement.
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, ARD/IEP Supports
PLAAFP Excerpt Document For a Student with Complex Access Needs
This document is an excerpt from a Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP) document for a student with a significant cognitive disability and complex access needs and is discussed in the course A Step Toward IEP Quality and Rigor for Students with Complex Access
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Significant Cognitive Disabilities, Inclusion
Circle of Relationships Map
This map helps a team explore student relationships.
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