Tools

This DeafTEC webpage provides best teaching strategies, based on Universal Design for instructors teaching in a mainstreamed classroom with a mix of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing students. The goal of these strategies is to improve teaching practice that will provide greater access to learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing students but will...

Created by Durham College, this site provides an overview of Universal Design Learning (UDL) Principles and the benefits of UDL. On the left panel of the website are resources on course outlines, lesson plans, graphic organizers, accessible documents, and other tools for faculty and educators on creating accessible and universally-designed...

This website, made available by the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), provides "strategies and resources for making science accessible for all students, including those with disabilities." The resources on this page are organized into the following topics: Physical Disabilities, Cognitive Disabilities, and General. Each category is...

This webpage, from the National Center on Accessible Education Materials, provides information for instructors on how to create high-quality videos that engage learners and support understanding. Lighting, sound and other aspects of creating videos for instruction are discussed in these resources.  Content is available in multiple formats for...

This website, made available by UDL for Teachers, provides information for teachers on applying universal design in their classrooms in order to make their teaching more accessible. The website feature three introductory videos with the following titles: An Introduction to Universal Design, Case Studies in Universal Design, Case Studies in...

This webpage from CAST, Inc. provides information on guidance for implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is defined as "a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn." These guidelines can be used in any discipline by "educators, curriculum developers,...

This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides a 2-page tip sheet that covers Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This resource includes short overviews of UDL principles, how UDL applies to the classroom, how UDL can be incorporated, and how UDL works with ADA accommodations. Related resources and references are...

This website provides information about the XR Access Initiative, "a community committed to making virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (XR) accessible to people with disabilities." This initiative was launched by Cornell Tech and Verizon to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities are considered in the future of the aforementioned...