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The National Center for PTSD, housed within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, works to "improve the care of Veterans and others affected by trauma through its strong commitment to research on the prevention, causes, assessment, and treatment of traumatic stress disorders." As a center of excellence for research and education of post...

Personalizing the Writing Experience The act of writing requires a wide range of mental and motor skills including executive functioning skills like planning, organizing, focusing and monitoring progress. While the writing process involves the universal steps of pre-writing, drafting, revising and editing, each person's approach to writing is...

This resource from TERC provides American Sign Language dictionaries for math and science topics. The following dictionaries are included: Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), Signing Science Picture Dictionary (SSPD), Signing Math Dictionary (SMD), Signing Math Picture Dictionary (SMPD), Signing Earth Science Dictionary (SESD), and Signing Life...

This webpage, provided by DeafTec, is a list of survival signs for educators who may have a student who uses American Sign Language. Each video recording depicts a person signing an essential classroom phrases in ASL. Phrases include "my office hours are...", "questions on the homework?" and "test time left."

This resource provides an overview of the elements of Universal Design Learning in higher education. From the landing webpage, users can navigate to read about the following subtopics: About UDL, Getting Started, UDL Examples, and UDL Institutions. Getting Started: This section offers information about how educators interested in UDL can get...