Instructional Technology

Families of children with disabilities play a critical role in fostering development and promoting independence across the life span of their children. Although implementing collaborative supports can...

Delivering high quality instruction grounded in evidence-based practice is a critical responsibility of special education teachers. One challenge for teachers is determining if they are implementing...

VM is a type of video-based instruction that shows each step in a chain of skills needed to complete a task. VM can be used in different ways to meet the unique needs of a particular learner with...

This article addresses practice guidelines for applying High Leverage Practices (HLPs), Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines, and effective communication strategies when using multimodal...

Special education teachers have benefited from using a variety of available technologies in their practice (S. E. Anderson & Putnam, 2020). Technologies have significantly enhanced the capabilities of...

The use of assistive (AT) and instructional technology (IT) may be the broadest high-leverage practice (HLP) within the instruction domain (McLeskey et al., 2018). It is broad because the universe of...

Technology tools can help expand postsecondary education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). Postsecondary education programs for individuals with ID can support students...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has opened new doors, enabling tools that are intuitive, adaptive, and personalized. Nowhere is this transformation more impactful than in special...

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model system, has taken the world by storm. Fearful that students would use ChatGPT to circumvent the learning process, multiple school...

Writing instruction is crucial for all students. Over 80% of students in the eighth grade are not writing at proficiency (U.S. Department of Education [USDOE], 2011). A series of national reports...