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Family Education and Advocacy Perspectives

PACER and NCAC Partnership

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The staff of NCAC is working with the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) to determine issues that are most significant to parents and is working to ensure that the UDL approach is made known to parents and family advocates. Further, NCAC is committed to the integration of critical family and parent issues related to curriculum, teacher practice and policy.

PACER, a non-profit organization helping parents and families of children with disabilities, will participate in the work of NCAC through the National Center's Partner Web Site. As the family partner, PACER's feedback and input in the project is critical to assure that family stakeholders are represented in project activities and that the dissemination of project results reaches families.

Especially for Parents

Links and resources of particular interest to parents and families are listed below.

Articles of interest

• Students Make Progress with Universal Design for Learning: Read this NCAC/PACER article to learn about the exciting new possibilities that UDL brings into the classroom.
• O'Neill, L. (2001). Cyber Summer Camp: Promotes Learning in the Internet Age Exceptional Parent, 31 (3), 42-45.
• O'Neill, L. (2000). Seeing past a child's disability: One parent's view of Universal Design for Learning. Exceptional Parent, 30 (11), 26-32.
• O'Neill, L. (2000). Moving toward the vision of the universally designed classroom. Exceptional Parent, 30 (9), 52-56.
• Meyer, A., O'Neill, L. (2000). Beyond access: Universal Design for Learning. Exceptional Parent, 30 (3), 59-61.
• O'Neill, L. (2000). Computer technology can empower students with learning disabilities. Exceptional Parent, 30 (7), 72-74.
• Meyer, A., O'Neill, L. (2000). Tools and materials that support the learning brain. Exceptional Parent, 30 (5), 60-62.

For more articles relating to parents, families and Universal Design for Learning, please visit: http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=114.

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