Fresh off her return from an amazing conference, we sit down with Julie Ortlieb to explore her learning around the essential strategies for addressing literacy among students with complex needs. Julie shares her expertise on what works and what doesn’t in the...
Special education is an ever-changing landscape. As such, we’ve seen a lot of instructional shifts throughout the years due to legislative changes and mindset. There has also been way more research in the area of literacy for students with significant disabilities...
Reading is a complex process that encompasses many different processes working together to unlock our written code and make meaning of it. The Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) illustrates that skilled readers must have solid word recognition skills...
Teaching reading and writing to students with complex needs can seem like an insurmountable task amongst all of the other areas of focus, but literacy is a crucial aspect of their education and well-being. While it may be tempting to focus solely on “functional...
