Aligning Instruction and IEPs to Essential State Standards for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

By Mary Schillinger

How can you support learning goals in core-aligned lessons while meeting students’ needs in their daily living, functional and adaptive skills? What IDEA mandates must you follow? Get the answers in this new resource — a training tool, program development guide and best-practices reference all in one — with:

  • An overview of the essential standards and how they should be applied to programming and instruction for this student population

  • Explanation of the legal components of core-aligned IEP goals and how to comply

  • Guidance to individualize learning tasks to each student’s strengths while maintaining the highest level of rigor possible

  • Forms, templates and checklists to guide you through developing programming and instruction that facilitate students’ achievement

  • And more!

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