The Placer County Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA) along with
the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) launched a
new website designed to support California educators in their efforts
to make distance learning accessible to students with disabilities.
View the website.
“Each school district is integrating special education services into
their overall distance learning plans,” said Placer County
Superintendent of Schools Gayle Garbolino-Mojica. “Supporting academic
accessibility is a critical step for school districts and education
providers as distance learning plans are initially developed and rolled
out. This new website provides the guidance and best practices to
support educators in accomplishing that goal.”
The website, specially intended for California educators, is part of the Open Access Project,
which focuses on the principals of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
and incorporating Assistive Technologies (AT) into the design of
instruction and measurement of learning. The website highlights specific
strands for administrators, resource teachers, special day class
teachers and preschool teachers, speech-language pathologists,
occupational and physical therapists, adapted physical education
teachers and specialists who support deaf and hard of hearing,
orthopedically impaired and visually impaired students. Within each
strand, educators can find best practices and a variety of
implementation tools tailored to their needs and the needs of their
students.
The Open Access Project is funded by the California Department of
Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence as
a content lead within California’s Statewide System of Support. The
project is designed to provide universal shared resources and tools and
well as options for technical assistance to assist SELPA teams in
building capacity to eliminate barriers to access to education for
students with disabilities.
