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  Helping Your Child with Math While at Home

  In this video, we’ll discuss three key points to consider in order to help your child with math at home. This video is part of the Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home​.

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  Helping Your Child with Reading at Home

  In this video, we’ll discuss three key points to consider in order to help your child with reading at home. This video is part of the Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home​.​

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  Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Math While at Home

  In this video, we’ll discuss three key points to consider in order to help your child with the foundations of math while at home. This video is part of the Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home​.

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  Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Reading at Home

  In this video, we’ll discuss three key points to consider in order to help your child with Foundations of Reading at home. This video is part of the Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home​.

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  DL #30: An Example of UDL and Online Collaboration

  What does it look like has always been one of the biggest questions about including students with significant cognitive disabilities. This post is one example of how a middle school in Carroll County, MD moved their UDL lesson planning process online as a result of COVID. It includes the process and examples of the actual work. 

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  TIES Brief 6: Grading My Child with Significant Cognitive Disabilities in an Inclusive Classroom

  Grades are assigned and report cards given in inclusive classrooms. It is important that thought has been given to how work from students with significant cognitive disabilities will be graded and what will be in the report card. The purpose of this parent Brief is to (a) identify the IEP team’s role in grading and report cards, (b) provide ideas for how to talk to teachers about grades and their meaning, and (c) suggest what to do if the school or district has not yet identified grading and report card considerations for students with significant cognitive disabilities in inclusive classrooms.

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  DL #23: Pivoting Between Paraprofessional Support in Inclusive Schools and Distance Learning

  Paraprofessionals are central to the success of educating students with disabilities in general education contexts, especially students with significant cognitive disabilities. Distance learning is pushing the field to consider how paraprofessionals can fulfill their roles in new and creative ways, particularly with the use of technology. Apply the Learning Components framework to clarify paraprofessional roles and how they can be carried out whether instruction is in-school or during distance learning. 

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  Helping Your Child with Academics

  This video addresses ways for parents to help their school-age child with a significant cognitive disability with academics when the child is learning at home.

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  Helping Your Child with Communication at Home

  This video describes ways for parents to enhance existing communication skills for their school-age child with a significant cognitive disability when the child is learning at home.

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  Helping Your Child with Routines at Home

  This video describes ways that parents of school-age children with significant cognitive disabilities can develop home routines that support learning and behavior when the child is at home. 

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  Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Communication at Home

   This video describes ways for parents to support emerging communication skills for their school-age child with a significant cognitive disability when the child is learning at home.

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  TIES Distance Learning #22: Grading Considerations for Inclusive Classrooms in an Online Environment

  Grading students with significant cognitive disabilities through distance learning requires carefulthought into what grades really mean and how to quantify student learning in a way that isenriching for all students.

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  TIES Brief 5: The General Education Curriculum–Not an Alternate Curriculum!

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  TIES Brief 4: Providing Meaningful General Education Curriculum Access to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

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  Tip #11: Grading for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

  Teachers in inclusive classrooms must carefully consider the grading process to provide fair and equitable grades for all students in their class, including students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. This TIP shares grading considerations and potential adaptations. 

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  Tip #12: Standards-based Grading and Report Cards in Inclusive Elementary and Middle Schools Article

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  Tip #13: Talking About Grading with Parents or Guardians and Students for Inclusive Classrooms Article

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  TIES Distance Learning #17: Planning for Instruction both at School and Distance Learning: The 5C Process

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  TIES Distance Learning #13: Distance Learning is Emotional Work: Tips for Parents and Caregivers

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  TIES Distance Learning #11: Embedding Instruction at Home