ATLAS4Learning

Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities and Dual Sensory Loss: NCDB/ATLAS Report | National Center on Deaf-Blindness Beginning in 2020, NCDB and Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS) began working together to identify characteristics of students who are deaf-blind and have significant cognitive disabilities, using data gathered by both projects. This resulted in the publication of an extens...

We serve the full continuum of learners by exploring the connections between teaching and learning and how assessment can work in service of those connections.

Lessons learned from I-SMART helped inform the design of the UDA Tool.
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This tool shows how the UDL framework can be applied in the design and delivery of large-scale assessments.

“This grant fills a gap for trainers who need support in their work with teachers of students with significant cognitive disabilities.”
-Sarah Koebley, ATLAS associate director of professional learning and principal investigator of SETTT for Success

“What we know, combined with what ATLAS knows, fills a profound gap in helping us demonstrate the challenge and importance of identifying [students who are deafblind with significant cognitive disabilities] as early as possible.”
- Sam Morgan, National Center On Deaf-Blindness director

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