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Disability: Orthopedic Impairment

  • Leading by Convening: A User Guide

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    The Leading by Convening (LbC) framework is used to engage stakeholders in improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities.

  • Census Information – Education

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    The Census Bureau provides information on a variety of educational topics, which can be infused into instruction to add relevance to topics.

  • Flexible Mindsets to Change: Navigating the Challenges of Shifting Contexts for Learning

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    Three staff members of a charter management organization discuss how they implemented and continue to update a plan to provide a comprehensive learning environment for all students. They discuss the importance of a flexible mindset, their efforts to create a sense of culture for students and staff, and how they approach challenges with translating special…

  • The Opportunity for Stronger Connection to Your School Community

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    A high school special education teacher who teaches in a self-contained classroom discusses positive changes to his practice and classroom community during distance learning. He describes practical tips for strengthening communication in classrooms where the first language of many parents is not English, while also improving overall relationships with your classroom community.

  • Meeting Students Where They Are: Strategies for Adapting Services for Students with Disabilities

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    A paraprofessional at a rural high school discusses how she has adapted her services to a virtual learning environment. She shares specific strategies she has used with her three students, who have social and emotional disorders, significant physical disabilities and dyslexia, respectively. She discusses how she has tailored her services not only to accommodate her…

  • Supporting Students with Significant Needs in Distance Learning

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    A school leader at a full-time special education day school discusses critical strategies for distance learning with students who have significant needs. Transitioning technology, communicating with parents, establishing routines, prioritizing engagement, and implementing many ways for students to show what they know as learning demands are increased are addressed with illustrative examples. 

  • Using Pets to Meet Occupational Therapy Goals in the Virtual Setting

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    This case study explores the calming and motivating presence of pets during virtual learning, particularly within the context of school-based occupational therapy. In it, an occupational therapist talks about the benefits of leveraging students’ surroundings in their virtual environments to keep students engaged.

  • Occupational Therapy in the Park: A Creative, Socially Distant Solution for a Child With a Learning Disability and ADHD

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    This case study describes my work with Lucy, a 5-year-old child with working memory weaknesses, visual spatial difficulties, ADHD, and sensory processing disorder. Because Lucy struggles with attention, she finds it difficult to retain what letters and numbers look like. Before the pandemic, we had been doing a lot of multisensory work to help her…

  • Uplifting Student Voices: Using Accessible Templates and Tools for Virtual Presentations

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    This case study describes a middle school special education teacher’s creative solutions for pushing students to create and virtually present using Google Slides in a self-contained classroom. Students present projects they develop and are proud of during the time of distance learning. The use of paced Google Slides templates, word banks, sentence starters, select-to-speak tools,…

  • The Push-In Model in a Virtual Classroom

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    This case study describes a speech-language pathologist’s transition from face-to-face push-in sessions to an online push-in format in virtual classrooms. Technology resources and new strategies are trialed with a middle school–age student working on writing and comprehension at a school for students with language-based learning differences. Screen sharing, breakout rooms, chat feature, whiteboard features, and…