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Significant Disabilities

Here are resources that the UPDC and its partners have created or discovered, which are available for use in the classroom and in the home.

Counting Objects

Educating Students with Significant Disabilities: It is a program for teaching one-to-one correspondence and counting objects in random order.
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Autism Monograph Edition of the Utah Special Educator Journal

This edition of the Utah Special Educator Journal has 88 pages dedicated to Autism topics and resources.
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Math 4 Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Presentation by Cindy Myers (Utah State University). The presentation is a thought provoking discussion on math instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities.
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Teaching Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Presentation by Glenna Roundy (Jordan District) given Dec 2, 2008 at the USOE's Significant Disabilities Focus Group.
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A Comparison of Math Curricula for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Compiled by the Significant Mentoring and Access to Resources Task force - March 2010 (.pdf)
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A Comparison of Reading Curricula for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Compiled by the Significant Mentoring and Access to Resources Taskforce - 2009 (.pdf)
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Teaching Sequential Tasks


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24 Evidence Based Practices

Resources for parents and teachers. Used for students with autism and significant cognitive disabilities. (.pdf)
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UPDC Supports for Teachers of Students with Significant Disabilities

List of resources, publications, instructional videos, partnerships and tools that UPDC uses as it supports teachers.
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Public Domain Curriculum Resources


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UNC Center for Literacy and Disability Studies

They promote literacy and communication for individuals of all ages with disabilities. They also host the Deaf-Blind Classroom Project.
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EXTENDED CORE STANDARDS

They describe academic content towards which students with significant cognitive disabilities should work to achieve competencies in math, science and English language arts (ELA) at each grade level from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
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