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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

Edsurge

About 14 percent of all public school students receive special education services, and for many of them the switch to remote learning has been difficult on families and the schools that teach them every day. What is Universal Design for Learning? What is synchronous versus asynchronous learning? How are schools adjusting?

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Read Works Provides Access to Handy Text Passages

SpeechTechie

an app such as Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to use highlighting and other annotation tools. There's a lot you can teach with a passage as a context! Check out Readworks and sign up for a free account. The website is iPad-friendly, so you can activate Speak Screen while using a passage to have it read aloud , or download and "Open In."