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Technical Brief: Access, Participation, and Progress in the General CurriculumBy Chuck Hitchcock, Anne Meyer, David Rose & Richard Jackson A Technical Brief prepared by the National Center on Accessing theGeneral Curriculum The landmark IDEA amendments of 1997 stipulate that students with disabilities are entitled to access, participation, and progress within the general education curriculum. This language offers greater potential educational opportunities for students with disabilities than they have ever before enjoyed. Whether these potential opportunities are realized will depend upon how we interpret each of the key terms "access," "participation," "progress," and the "general curriculum" – and whether new tools, methods, and approaches are implemented. This paper contends that the most critical step to increase access, participation, and progress for students with disabilities is to change the curriculum itself. In so doing, we will create a curriculum that is better not just for students with disabilities but for all students. Further, we examine what the key terms mean in the context of the special, the mainstream, and the universally designed curriculum. Universal Design for Learning is discussed in detail and links to additional resources are provided. We welcome your feedback on this brief and hope that ongoing dialogue will advance our thinking about how best to improved access, participation, and progress for all learners, especially for individuals with disabilities. Table of Contents
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