Instructional Adaptations and Universal Design for Learning in Special Education : A Comparative Literature Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Youn Jung Park ◽  
Eun Young Kang
2022 ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
Nena Raschelle Neild ◽  
Katie Taylor ◽  
Amanda Crecelius

Deaf students face challenges and barriers in US general education classrooms due to barriers of non-matched monolingual instruction. The demographics of deaf education classrooms have changed over the years and no longer are families encouraged to choose one modality. Multilingual DHH students face unique challenges and barriers that cannot be left unaddressed or overlooked. The following chapter outlines a literature review of the guiding principles of UDL specifically to address the challenges and needs of multilingual DHH. This chapter addresses the need for the three guiding principles, engagement, representation, and expression, along with the integration of technology. Practical application will guide current deaf educators in creating lessons and physical classrooms while implementing technology to meet deaf students' needs in general education classrooms.


2021 ◽  
pp. 004005992110101
Author(s):  
Lauren L. Foxworth ◽  
Andrew I. Hashey ◽  
Courtney Dexter ◽  
Shelly Rasnitsyn ◽  
Rachel Beck

Explicit Instruction (EI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) have been identified as high-leverage instructional practices in special education, effective for bolstering academic outcomes among learners with processing difficulties and enabling all learners to access curriculum. Given the breadth of research supporting the use of EI across content areas and age groups for individuals with learning disabilities and the importance of intentional, universal design and delivery of lessons that maximize access to content for all learners, teachers and researchers must not only understand EI and UDL but be able to jointly leverage both key instructional practices to create effective and accessible lessons. The purpose of the current article is to demonstrate that EI and UDL can be used in tandem to render instruction in special education accessible to the broadest range of learners, and in the most impactful manner possible.


Pedagogika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-213
Author(s):  
Alvyra Galkienė

By applying a qualitative method of dialectical modelling, the following three models of inclusion are analysed: integration, inclusive special education, and universal design for learning. The prerequisites significant for the implementation of each model are tested by contradicting them against other models, in order to reveal education components and their connections that either strengthen or impede the qualitative evolution of inclusive believes and practice.The results of integrated education analysis underline the impulse of societal movement that encouraged the development of processes of inclusion and the restructuring of educational system; however, at the same time, they reveal the possibility of tension due to the desynchronization between various components of social and educational system. The reduction of tension and the sustainability of inclusive evolution requires the harmonisation of social believes and cultural experience.The analysis of the “Inclusive special education” model shows that any polarized attitude and educational effort towards different groups of pupils generates barriers for ensuring successful learning for all the pupils and shapes elements of educational segregation. In overcoming this barrier, the change in educators’ attitude and practice is significant, embracing the entirety of the learners and giving priority to professional co-operation.The connections between the components of universal design for learning model allow to cover the whole of the variety of learners and to aim at personal success for every pupil. A universal educational environment that corresponds with the variety of educational needs is the core precondition for a good quality inclusive education.


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