SEEM Equity Resources - Students with Disabilities

Supporting Students with Disabilities

Resources to help make schools and classrooms work for and affirm disabled and neurodiverse students, and to help support educators work towards disability justice and a neurodiversity lens.

Ableism training for Zoom.pptx

Non-Narrated PowerPoint with introduction to disablism, neurodiversity, disability justice, and deep accessibility, and how they relate to schools. A similar, narrated and captioned video can be found here.

Videos:

UDL: Reducing Barriers
Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
Reimagining Disability and Inclusive Education
No Body is Disposable series

Books:

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life (2012) by Thomas Armstrong

Articles:

Achieving Equity In Special Education
Selection from Your Students, My Students, Our Students
7 Tips for Achieving Equity in Special Education Autistic Hoya's Brief Abled Privilege Checklist
Universal Design for Learning--Addressing Equity, Opportunity, and Challenge for All Students
Fair is Not Always Equal Infographic
In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed with Special Ed Needs in Aftermath of Water Crisis
What to Do when a School Doesn't Understand or Believe in the Least Restrictive Environment
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Special Education

Resource Banks:

Neurodiversity Strengths Checklist
Guidebook and Foundations for Inclusive Practice from DESE
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Resources
UDL Guidelines
CASEL Social Emotional Learning Resources and Support

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