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Congress Approves Bill to Reauthorize the Higher Education Act

BILL WILL EXPAND POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

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This policy forum proceedings document provides an introduction that includes federal education regulatory language for universal design for learning (UDL). It summarizes panel presentations from the higher education, state-level, local-level and national-level perspectives. Throughout the panel and during the subsequent group discussions, several suggestions and proposed strategies to improve policy to impact implementation of UDL were given by participants. These are summarized.
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Additional copies are available from NASDSE; however, there are no restrictions on copying because this document was produced with federal funds. This document is available for downloading at www.projectforum.org. Additionally, Project Forum's site has more than 100 documents available for download. Please take a moment to visit and bookmark this site and send to others on your staff.
The following Project Forum document was recently prepared under Federal Cooperative Agreement H326F050001:

Download: UDL-PolicyChallengesandRecommendations.pdf

Does your school or local school system have a FREE Bookshare membership for your students with print disabilities yet? If not, you’ll probably want to get one, so that you can get digital textbooks for your qualified students who also have IEPs. It’s easier now because Maryland has named Bookshare as one of our Authorized Users of the NIMAC, the central repository for U.S. K-12 digital textbooks.

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