6 Modifications for Your Early Ed Classroom

Improve inclusion in your early childhood classroom with these simple modifications from the popular guidebook Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs.

10 Worst Modifications for Students with Disabilities (and 100+ Good Ones!)

Good modifications are a wonderful way to support your students with disabilities so they can experience everything the general curriculum has to offer. But bad modifications—at best, they don’t help, and at worst, they can do more harm than good.

Inclusion Guest Blog: Renay Marquez of ParaEducate

I’m very pleased to welcome another special guest to the blog: Renay Marquez, co-founder of ParaEducate, which is one of our favorite resources for special education teachers, paraeducators, and advocates for people with disabilities.

17 Great Accommodations & Modifications

As many of our posts have emphasized this year, designing your lessons using the UDL framework goes a long way toward meeting each of your students’ specific learning needs.

Inclusion: How to Know It When You See It

If you’re a member of an inclusive school community, do you sometimes wonder if your school is “getting inclusion right”?

Paula Kluth’s Tips and Strategies for Supporting All Students

How do we make schools responsive to every learner that walks through the door? In this video, Autism Expert Paula Kluth discusses challenges you may encounter in an inclusive classroom and the tips, supports, and strategies needed to overcome them. Her advice will benefit your students with and without disabilities.

Inclusion Case Studies: Voices from the Classroom

This chapter excerpt provides two examples of educators' approaches to teaching in an inclusive environment. Read the excerpt for tips on organization and management strategies that include all students.

Common classroom modifications for sensory modulation disorder (SMD): Rationale and effect on adaptive response

Get great strategies for teaching early elementary kids with sensory issues as well as why and how each strategy works in this appendix excerpt. Modifications are categorized by seating/positioning, environmental mods, wearables, materials, and routine.