Best Practices & Quickguides

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Open Access, Placer County SELPA
Relevant categories:
Disabilities Special Education Technology
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Overview

This resource table brings together practical quick guides that support teams in understanding student needs and implementing effective supports. It includes tools to guide assistive technology decision-making, plan and implement trials, document supports within the IEP, and strengthen executive function skills that promote independence and learning. Together, these resources help educators build consistent, student-centered supports that improve access, participation, and success across learning environments.

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  Keywords: Accessibility, Accessible Technology, Assistive Technology, Executive Functions, Inclusion, Individualized Education Plan (IEP), Neurodiversity, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Best Practices & Quickguides

Name Type Description Access
Executive Function Quick Guide Guide Explains executive function skills and offers strategies for supporting planning, organization, self-monitoring, and flexible thinking in learning environments. View
AT Considerations: Quick Guide Guide A concise overview that helps teams follow a collaborative, step-by-step process for identifying student needs and making informed assistive technology decisions. View
Documenting AT on the IEP: Quick Guide Guide Provides guidance for clearly describing assistive technology needs, purposes, and supports within the IEP to ensure access, participation, and progress. View
Best Practices & Guiding Questions for AT: Trials & Implementation Document Outlines key steps and guiding questions to help teams plan, conduct, and implement assistive technology trials and ensure successful use across settings. View

Executive Function Quick Guide

Explains executive function skills and offers strategies for supporting planning, organization, self-monitoring, and flexible thinking in learning environments.

Guide
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AT Considerations: Quick Guide

A concise overview that helps teams follow a collaborative, step-by-step process for identifying student needs and making informed assistive technology decisions.

Guide
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Documenting AT on the IEP: Quick Guide

Provides guidance for clearly describing assistive technology needs, purposes, and supports within the IEP to ensure access, participation, and progress.

Guide
View

Best Practices & Guiding Questions for AT: Trials & Implementation

Outlines key steps and guiding questions to help teams plan, conduct, and implement assistive technology trials and ensure successful use across settings.

Document
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Assistive Technology (AT)

Assistive technology (AT) is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of tools, strategies, and services that enables a student with a disability to complete a task they would otherwise have difficulty with or be unable to do. Federal law requires IEP teams to consider assistive technology for every student with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) to ensure equitable access to instruction, materials, and school activities. Accessible technology refers to technology that's been designed with the needs of many different users in mind. Often Accessible technology ...

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Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC)

Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) is an area of clinical practice that addresses the needs of individuals with significant and complex communication disorders characterized by impairments in speech-language production and comprehension, including spoken and written modes of communication. Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) describes multiple ways to communicate that can supplement or compensate (either temporarily or permanently) for impairments in speech-language production and/or comprehension, including spoken and written modes of communication. AAC is augmentative when used to supplement existing speech, and alternative when used in place of speech ...

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Universal Design of Learning (UDL)

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework for designing flexible, inclusive learning environments that anticipate learner variability and reduce barriers to participation, engagement, and achievement. Rather than expecting students to adapt to a single method of instruction, UDL encourages educators to provide multiple ways for learners to engage with content, access information, and demonstrate understanding. By emphasizing learner agency, accessibility, and intentional instructional design, UDL supports equitable opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities and diverse learning needs. This collection of resources provides ...

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Added on 6/2/2026   ·   Last updated on 6/2/2026