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• CAST Joins Effort to Improve Pathways for Diverse Learners to BioTech and BioMedical Careers

  

  Monday, June 3, 2019

  CAST partners with the New Hampshire-based Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute to seek ways to help students from diverse and underrepresented populations choose and embark on STEM careers.

• New from CAST: Antiracism & UDL

  

  Wednesday, August 5, 2020

  CAST is thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of this timely new title by veteran teacher and administrator in urban schools, Andratesha Fritzgerald.

• Timeline of Innovation

  

  Since its founding in 1984, CAST has seeded and grown the field of Universal Design for Learning through creative research and development, strategic partnerships, teacher preparation and support, and international outreach.

• Book

  The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies

  

  D. H. Rose, A. Meyer, & C. Hitchcock, eds., 2005

  This book addresses crucial questions about how to create full access to the general education curriculum for children with disabilities.

• Article

  Addressing Learning Disabilities with UDL and Technology: Strategic Reader

  T. E. Hall, et al., 2015

  CAST created Strategic Reader, a technology-based system blending Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) in a digital learning environment to improve reading comprehension instruction. This experimental study evaluates the effectiveness of The Strategic Reader ...

• Article

  Insights From the Development of a Digital Writing Tool That Supports Students With Learning Disabilities

  

  Vue, Hall, et al., 2015

  This descriptive study examined focus group data gathered to address two questions: First, do data from focus groups affirm and expand our understanding of writing and writing development among middle school students? And second, do data from focus groups provide information helpful to the use of digital technology for enhancing writing instruction, production, and engagement?

• Article

  The Role of Motivation in Remedial Reading Curriculum

  C.P. Proctor, et al., 2014

  The study examined self-reported levels of motivation in predicting reading comprehension among 76 linguistically diverse middle school-aged students with disabilities in an urban Northeastern school district in the United States. ...

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  A Universal Design for Learning-based Framework for Designing Accessible Technology-Enhanced Assessments

  R. P. Dolan, et al., 2013

  The increased capabilities offered by digital technologies offer new opportunities to evaluate students' deeper knowledge and skills and on constructs that are difficult to measure using traditional methods. Such assessments can also ...

• Report

  Technology Feature Brief: Adjustable Text Size

  

  CISL at CAST, 2023

  Making text sizes larger or smaller as needed can benefit readers of different ages and those with visual impairments. Having the ability to change the text size easily means that readers can easily use larger print when needed.

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  Technology Feature Brief: Manual Text Leveling

  

  CISL at CAST, 2023

  Text leveling is a process in which text is modified manually by a human to be simpler or more complex to fit a student’s reading skills. Text leveling is beneficial because educators can match reading materials to individual learners’ skill levels.