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Curriculum Design

Teaching Every Student
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/

Integrating Technology into the Standard Curriculum
http://www.cec.sped.org/osep/recon3.html

A Framework for Universal Design in Curriculum Development
http://www.cec.sped.org/osep/appendix.html

District Technology Planning for All Students: Helping to Meet the IDEA '97 Mandate
http://www.edtechleaders.org/Resources/articles/idea.htm

A Curriculum Every Student Can Use: Design Principles for Student Access
http://www.cec.sped.org/osep/ud-sec1.html

Technology Tools

CAST's list of educational software with UDL features
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=204

Some companies that provide software that supports UDL:

AlphaSmart
AlphaSmart – Dedicated battery operated word processor. Check out the Communication Center.
www.alphasmart.com

Don Johnston, Inc.
Start-to-Finish Books - Classic Literature, Biographies, Natural Disasters
Write OutLoud 3 – Talking Word processor
BuildAbility - Make your own Reading & Writing activities
Co:Writer 4000 - Word Prediction and Writing
Simon Series Word Study
UkanDu Little Books Early Reading & Writing
http://www.donjohnston.com

Edmark
Stanley’s Sticker Stories
Thinkin’ Things Science
Millie’s Math House Primary Math, Logic
Bailey’s Book House Early Literacy skills
Sammy’s Science House
Touch Window An alternative input device
http://www.riverdeep.net

HearIt
Speaks any highlighted text on the screen – Freeware (Mac only)
http://mac-ny.tucows.webusenet.com/preview/205274.html

IBM
Via Voice Speech to Text Software
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/speech/

Inspiration Software
Kidspiration, Inspiration Brainstorming, outlining, writing organization tool
http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm

Intellitools - http://www.intellitools.com/

Learningneeds.com - http://www.learningneeds.com/

MacSpeech
IListen Speech to Text Software (Mac only)
http://www.macspeech.com/products/iListen.html

ScanSoft
TextBridge Pro OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software
Dragon Naturally Speaking Speech to Text Software
http://www.scansoft.com/textbridge/

Scholastic
WiggleWorks Elementary Reading/Writing/Literacy Software
http://www.scholastic.com/

Sunburst
Tenth Planet Series (Math and Language Arts)
http://www.sunburst.com/

Tex-Edit Plus
Full featured word processor – Shareware (Mac)
http://mac-ny.tucows.webusenet.com/adnload/203750_81804.html

text HELP!
Screen Reader 4 – Speaks any highlighted text on the screen – (PC only)
http://www.texthelp.com/screenreader.asp?section=product

Tom Snyder Productions
Timeliner 5.0, etc.
Math Mysteries
Graph Club
Fitz and Martina Series
http://www.tomsnyder.com/

Internet

Center for Applied Special Technologies (CAST)
Excellent resource for research and development information related to universal design for learning
http://www.cast.org

A to Z Teacher Stuff
Resource for locating alternative methods and materials
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

IntelliTools' Newsletter
An e-newsletter where IntelliTools customers can find out all they need to know about what's happening in the IntelliTools user community
http://www.intellitools.com/

News-4-You
Weekly Boardmaker-based Newspaper
http://www.news-2-you.com/

SETT Framework
Guidelines for making effective AT decisions
http://www.at-training.com/registered/ATBasics/Foundation/Assessment/sett.asp

Tools and resources that promote Web site accessibility:

Bobby - analyzes Web sites against accessibility guidelines
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp

Introduction to Web Accessibility
Library of links to accessibility materials
http://www.webaim.org

EText Sources

Electric Library
Contains only copyrighted content from reliable sources. Electric Library will deliver full-text documents from "natural language" inquiries. Sources include magazines and newspapers like TIME, U.S. News & World Report, People, The Economist, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and The Los Angeles Times.
http://www.elibrary.com/

The Children's Literature Web Guide
A collection of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown

The Library of Congress
This resource provides a wealth of information on the state of digital libraries today.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/

The Online Books Page
A directory of books that can be freely read on the Web, plus an index to thousands of online books & text archives.
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/

Project Gutenburg
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
http://promo.net/pg/

TeleRead
Teleread is a non-partisan plan to get electronic books into American homes--through a national digital library and small, sharp-screened computers-in an era of declining literacy.
http://www.teleread.org/

University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center provides access to over 5,000 texts (1,200 of these are available for the Microsoft Reader format), including classic British and American fiction, children's literature, and books on American history.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/