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Learners with Disabilities

Universal Design for Learning: It All Starts with a Goal

The purpose of this course is to model and identify Universal Design for Learning (UDL) based lesson ideas that increase access for the range of ways adults learn. In this course, your task is to assess how you are currently designing to increase access in adult learning. You will know you have been successful in this course if, upon completion, you are able to use UDL to design environments that increase access to learning for adults.

Universal Design for Learning: Learning that Works for All

The purpose of this course is to model and identify UDL-based lesson ideas that increase access for the range of ways adults learn. In this course, your task is to assess how you are currently designing to increase access in adult learning. You will know you have been successful in this course if, upon completion, you are able to use UDL to design environments that increase access to learning for adults.

Universal Design for Learning: Making Math Matter

The purpose of this course is to model and identify UDL-based lesson ideas that increase access for the range of ways adults learn. In this course, your task is to assess how you are currently designing to increase access in adult learning. You will know you have been successful in this course if, upon completion, you are able to use UDL to design environments that increase access to learning for adults.

Universal Design for Learning: Making Reading & Writing Matter

The purpose of this course is to model and identify UDL-based lesson ideas that increase access for the range of ways adults learn. In this course, your task is to assess how you are currently designing to increase access in adult learning. You will know you have been successful in this course if, upon completion, you are able to use UDL to design environments that increase access to learning for adults.

Universal Design for Learning: Building Communities for Learning

Technology has expanded the options for when and where learning can take place. Through the design of accessible distance learning environments and the creation of rich personal learning networks, you will create learning communities that build on the experience and knowledge adult learners already possess while balancing the many demands they have on their time and motivation.

Universal Design for Learning: Self-Advocacy for Work & Learning

This course introduces opportunities for learner agency and self-advocacy that help learners develop executive functioning skills needed for work and education. Learn how to use classroom exercises and routines to enhance learners' agency and self-advocacy, which in turn will strengthen their executive functioning skills, which are essential for success in future education, training, employment, and civic life. Course participants will learn to identify and connect learners’ goals with practices that support increasing independence and self-advocacy.

Universal Design for Learning: Improving Systems for Adult Education

The purpose of this course is to model and identify UDL-based lesson ideas that increase access for the range of ways adults learn. In this course, your task is to assess how you are currently designing to increase access in adult learning. You will know you have been successful in this course if, upon completion you are able to use UDL to design environments that increase access to learning for adults.

L2A: Legal Issues, Self-Disclosure, and Confidentiality

This course examines legal and ethical issues that specifically affect adults with learning disabilities (LD) and is meant to provide an understanding of the law to guide professional practice. It identifies the legal, self-disclosure and confidentiality issues that are relevant to service providers working with adults with LD; and discusses possible implications for service delivery when a student discloses a learning disability.

Audiences:
• Instructors and practitioners in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and low Adult Secondary Education (ASE) programs
• Instructors of adults with learning disabilities (LD)