
Digital Tools for Students with Special Needs
What happens when a lesson assumes every student learns the same way? This week you match a free tool to each student's barrier, using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and build a communication page and a visual schedule you can use straight away.
About this course
What does it mean to design a lesson for a class where one student can’t read grade-level text, another has no verbal speech, and a third loses focus within minutes of a routine changing? Universal Design for Learning (UDL), developed by CAST, answers with three principles — Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression — built…
Methodology
Each task starts from one of four invented student profiles and the barrier the student meets, and only then chooses a principle and a tool or setting.
Communication pages and schedules are built by hand first, then compared with the apps on the trainer’s device, so what you learn works with or without a purchase.
Every tool is looked at for what information it holds, and the week ends with a privacy checklist to take to your school.
What you'll take home
Describe a student’s barrier through the three UDL principles and choose a tool or setting that addresses it.
Adapt a text with Immersive Reader or Read&Write and build a twelve-symbol communication page for a student who does not use speech.
Build a visual schedule with a planned-change card for a student who is anxious about changes in routine.
Write a privacy checklist for assistive tools and identify what to ask your school.
Plan what you will try first at school, starting with free tools or paper, for a student whose barrier you have named.
Other dates for this course
- 8–12 Feb 2027 Bremen Planned
- 5–9 Apr 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 24–28 May 2027 Mersin Confirmed
- 26–30 Jul 2027 Budapest Planned
- 27 Sep – 1 Oct 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 11–15 Oct 2027 Budapest Planned
- 29 Nov – 3 Dec 2027 Antalya Planned
- 20–24 Dec 2027 İstanbul Planned
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