Arranged in four formats, the following resources provide general information on special education and access:
Access in Action
Special Education in Plain Language: User-friendly Handbook on Special Education Laws, Policies, and Practices in Wisconsin (Summer 2002)
This guide published by the Department of Public Instruction in Wisconsin describes what the special education law says and means in user-friendly language. Topics covered are: IEP process, evaluation procedures, IEP team participants, eligibility determination, IEP development, placement, re-evaluation, other school choices, mediation, and discipline issues.
Information Briefs
What Does it Mean to Improve Access to the General Education Curriculum?
Examines the multidimensional and dynamic framework the Access Center developed through an extensive literature review and discussions with educators from the special education community.
Special Education and Access Terminology
Provides a quick reference of definitions and examples of terms frequently used when talking about students with disabilities, special education, and access.
Teaching Matters: The Link Between Access to the General Education Curriculum and Performance on State Assessments
This brief is an introduction to the linkage between classroom practice and student performance on State assessments. It provides practitioners and administrators with an overview of instructional practice and content, based on rigorous academic standards, to heighten awareness regarding the connection between access to the general education curriculum and student performance on large scale assessments.
Word | PDF
Access to the General Education Curriculum for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
This brief explores the linkages between alternate state standards, alternate assessment, the IEP, and classroom instruction and assessment as the process of providing access to the general education curriculum for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
Word | PDF
Links
DB-LINK --
The National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
Helps parents, teachers, and others by providing them with information to foster the skills, strategies and confidence necessary to nurture and empower deaf-blind children.
National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC)
Provides a vision of how new curricula, teaching practices, and policies can be woven together to practially improve access to the general curriculum. The site includes highly useful case stories and publications.
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
Aims to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well prepared to work with students who have disabilities and with their families.
Special Connections
This national project out of the University of Kansas develops tools and resources that support students with special needs in general education settings.
Presentations
An Overview of the Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
This presentation is used to provide audiences with an overview of mission, goals, and services available through the Access Center. It is a general informational presentation that can be adapted to a variety of audiences.
Access Center Brochure
The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
This presentation provided an overview of the Access Center and the services and products we offer. It was intended to introduce the audience to the Information Sharing Community initiative that is available to CCSSO constituents through our relationship with the Council.
Handout
For additional information on this or other topics,
please contact
The Access Center at center@air.org.
The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-8
The Access Center is a cooperative agreement (H326K020003) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, awarded to
the American Institutes for Research
1000 Thomas Jefferson St. NW,
Washington, DC 20007
Ph: 202-403-5000 | TTY: 877-334-3499 |
Fax: 202-403-5001
|
e-mail: center@air.org website: www.k8accesscenter.org
This report was produced under U.S. Department of Education Cooperative Agreement H326K020003 with the American Institutes for Research. Jane Hauser served as the project officer. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department of Education.
No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service or enterprise mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred.
