Accessible Academics

There's this mistaken idea out there that people who talk about presuming competence believe that all nonspeaking kids are "locked in geniuses." That's presuming KNOWLEDGE and it's not the same as presuming COMPETENCE. We don't know what we don't know. A lot of times our students know so much more than we would suspect - because they've been listening to everyone talk about and around them for years - but there's a lot they don't know, particularly if they've been in a segregated classroom learning the same repetitive skills day after day for years on end. So instead of assuming that they KNOW everything, we're assuming that they CAN LEARN anything. This presumption of competence is the foundation of our Accessible Academics course. This is a self-paced, ten module course that starts with the ideas of presuming competence and understanding motor/movement differences and builds to explain and model how to adapt age-appropriate academic tasks for students who communicate by making choices. This course is entirely self-paced. You’ll have access for life. Learn strategies to adapt: 🔡 reading decoding / phonics / spelling 📖 reading comprehension ➗ common core mathematics 🔬 science knowledge and experiments 🌍 social studies and history 📝 creative writing ⌨️ academic writing Additionally, there is an entire module devoted to language you can use to ask for specific accommodations, supplementary services, and meaningful IEP goals that align to real objectives but are accessible to complex communicators.