10 Research-Based Tips for Enhancing Literacy Instruction for Students With Intellectual Disability
This article provides educators and IEP team members with a framework for reflecting on current reading practices to make research-based adjustments that are likely to improve student outcomes. Each tip describes the rationale for the recommendation and provides implementation guidance.
Authors: Christopher J. Lemons, Jill H. Allor, Stephanie Al Otaiba, and Lauren M. LeJeune
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: Teaching Exceptional Children
Arizona Department of Education AT Short Term Loan Library
Arizona Department of Education, Exceptional Student Services works in partnership with Northern Arizona University Institute for Human Development Arizona Technology Access Program to make available at no cost, a wide variety of assistive technology devices, equipment, software and professional development materials to school personnel to improve access to assistive technology.
Publisher: Arizona Department of Education
Comprehensive Overview of Intellectual Disability
IDEA defines intellectual disability as significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance." This document includes causes, signs, implications for school, and tips for teachers.
Publisher: National Association of Special Education Teachers
Down Syndrome Factsheet (for Schools)
This factsheet provides information on what teachers should know about students with hemopphilia and how to support their learning in the classroom.
Publication Date: February 2022
Publisher: KidsHealth
If You’ve Got a Problem, ICEL Will Solve It
This webinar describes how the RIOT/ICEL (RIOT refers to review, interview, observe, test and ICEL refers to instruction, curriculum, environment, and learner) matrix can support problem-solving by helping teams to organize their diagnostic data, refine hypotheses, and guide decision making. Examples and resources for data collection are included.
Author: Jason Harlacher
Publication Date: December 2023
Publisher: National Center on Intensive Intervention
Intellectual Disability and Developmental Disability
This chapter from Understanding and Supporting Learners with Disabilities covers intellectual disability and developmental disability definition, characteristics, educational considerations, levels and areas of support, and general teaching strategies.
Author: Paula Lombardi
Publication Date: Updated July 2022
Publisher: University of New Hampshire
MTSS for All: Including Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities
This Brief provides suggestions for ways in which MTSS can include students with the most
significant cognitive disabilities so that MTSS provides a whole school and whole district approach to be implemented by educators. Ideas for how to use MTSS as encompassing practices for all students are presented following a short history of MTSS and a summary of current MTSS models.
Publication Date: January 2020
Publishers: National Center on Educational Outcomes and TIES Center
Providing Meaningful General Education Curriculum Access to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
This brief discusses what access to and progress in the general education curriculum means for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. It also confirms that federal education laws require that students who participate in the AA-AAAS receive instruction in the same grade-level content as all other students. It is the achievement expected on the same grade-level content that can be reduced in breadth, depth, and complexity
Authors: Ricki Sabia, Jessica Bowman, Martha Thurlow, and Sheryl Lazarus
Publication Date: July 2020
Publisher: TIES Center, University of Minnesota
Standards-based Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for Students Who Participate in AA-AAS
This brief provides guidelines and examples from the National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) resources to use when creating standards-based IEPs for students in AA-AAS.
Publication Date: October 2015
Publisher: National Center and State Collaborative