Background Papers
National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC) Publications
Curriculum: Effective Classroom Practices
- Explicit Instruction (last updated 11/2/09)
- Differentiated Instruction with UDL (last updated 1/14/11)
- Differentiated Instruction (last updated 1/14/11)
- Curriculum-Based Evaluations (last updated 8/17/09)
- Classroom Management (last updated 11/2/09)
- Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention (last updated 11/3/09)
Curriculum: Enhancements
- Background Knowledge (last updated 11/3/09)
- Graphic Organizers
- Text Transformations (last updated 8/21/09)
- Curriculum Modification (last updated 11/2/09)
- Virtual Reality/Simulations (last updated 8/24/09)
- Background Knowledge with UDL (last updated 11/2/09)
- Graphic Organizers with UDL (last updated 8/24/09)
- Virtual Reality/Simulations with UDL (last updated 8/24/09)
Teacher Practice
- Curriculum Access for Students with Low-Incidence Disabilities: The Promise of Universal Design for Learning
- Technologies Supporting Curriculum Access for Students with Disabilities (last updated 8/24/09)
- Effective Teaching Practices and the Barriers Limiting Their Use in Accessing the Curriculum: A Review of Recent Literature
- Teacher Planning and Universal Design for Learning Environments
- A Glimpse at Current Teaching Practices with Preliminary Survey Results
Policy
- The Promise of Accessible Textbooks: Increased Achievement for All Students (last updated 10/30/09)
- Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities: The Role of the IEP
- Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities: A Discussion of the Interrelationship between IDEA '04 and NCLB
- Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities: A Discussion of the Interrelationship between IDEA '97 and NCLB
- Post IDEA '97 Case Law and Administrative Decisions: Access to the General Curriculum
- Access to the General Curriculum for Students with Disabilities: A Brief Legal Interpretation
- Policy, Property and Permissions: A Discussion of Accessible Curriculum Materials
- Policy, Property and Permissions II: Summary of May 7, 2004 Meeting
- NCAC Policy Group White Paper for Policy, Property, & Permissions
- Overview of State Studies
- Schools Without Rules? Charter Schools, Federal Disability Law, and the Paradoxes of Deregulation
- Disability, Race and High-Stakes Testing of Students
- High-Stakes Testing: Opportunities and Risks for Students of Color, English-Language Learners, and Students with Disabilities (last updated 8/26/09)
- Update on Implementation of IDEA: Early Returns from State Studies
- Funding Mechanisms in Special Education
- Related Services: Minnesota's System of Inter-Agency Coordination
Consensus Building
Other
- Balanced Instructional Support and Challenge in Universally Designed Classrooms
- Technical Brief: Access, Participation, and Progress in the General Curriculum (last updated 11/3/09)
Papers by CAST
Federal and State Legislation Regarding Accessible Instructional Materials: A Discussion of Accessible Curriculum Materials, by Erica S. Perl- NCAC Policy Group White Paper for Policy, Property and Permissions, by Erica S. Perl
- National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard Report—Version 1.0, by the National File Format Technical Panel
- The Promise of Accessible Textbooks: Increased Achievement for All Students, by Skip Stahl, NCAC (last updated 10/30/09)
- Text Transformations, by Nicole Strangman and Tracey Hall, NCAC (last updated 8/21/09)
- Accessible Instructional Materials: An Annotated List of Research Articles
Access to Rich Digital Content
- Comments on Accessibility of Google Print and Google's Library Project, by Jim Fruchterman
- The Soundproof Book: Exploration of Rights Conflict and Access to Commercial eBooks for People with Disabilities, by George Kerscher and Jim Fruchterman
- Surpassing Gutenberg: Access to Published Information for Blind Readers, by Janina Sajka and George Kerscher
The Development of DAISY
For the most comprehensive collection of papers related to the development of the DAISY 2.02 recommendation, plans for moving the standard forward, etc., consult the DAISY Consortium's web site.
Of particular interest may be this article, by George Kerscher and Jennifer Sutton, published in the ITD Journal from Equal Access to Software and Information: DAISY For All: Publishers' Collaboration Enabling Print Access.