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NCAC: Research & Solutions: Students Make Progress with UDL: General Education and Special Education Associations: Important Ideas from CAST Directors, Staff Members, and NCAC

Important Ideas from CAST Directors, Staff Members, and NCAC

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Two co-executive directors, David Rose and Anne Meyer, head cast's 40-member staff and varied projects. CAST professionals are specialists in education, special education, reading and language arts, occupational therapy, neuropsychology, engineering, clinical/school psychology, vision rehabilitation, telecommunications and technology policy, information systems, research, accounting, writing, and administrative and media support. They are leading authorities on universally designed instruction, educational accessibility, and more.

The following are selected papers from CAST that reflect that expertise.

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• Testimony: Hearing on Education Technology before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and education, by David Rose, Ed.D. (July 2001): Ideas about what Congress can do to support access to learning.
• The Future is in the Margins: The Role of Technology and Disability in Educational Reform: Innovations that are driven by students "at the margins" directly benefit all learners.
• Balanced Instructional Support and Challenge in Universally Designed Learning Environments, by Chuck Hitchcock, M.Ed. (2000): It may not be not be as difficult for teachers in the future to modify teaching methods and curriculum materials to meet individual student needs.
• Role of Online Communications in Schools, by Follansbee, S., Hughes, R., Pisha, B., & Stahl, S. (1997) This study reveals significantly higher scores on measurements of information management, communication, and presentation of ideas for students who had online access than for control groups with no online access.
• Obtaining Digital Materials: Guidance from the CAST Web site.
• Learning to Read in the Computer Age: CAST's co-directors Anne Meyer and David Rose help teachers grasp the theories and uses of computers for the teaching of reading.