UDL - Universal Design for Learning

The National Center on the Use of Emerging Technologies to Improve Literacy Achievement for Students with Disabilities in Middle School is researching and developing a technology-rich learning environment called “Udio” that will make it possible for schools to provide all learners with Universally Designed for Learning (UDL) literacy experiences as they read independently across the curriculum. Consider joining the research in this important product.

To achieve their mission and vision, the Center is leveraging the capabilities of the Web itself to create a more distributed ecosystem for adolescent literacy, termed “Udio,” where the goals are to:

1.  foster a passionate interest and investment in reading for learners who have traditionally been uninterested in, or disenfranchised by, traditional classroom literacy practices;
2.  substantially improve the reading comprehension skills of middle school learners who have experienced recurrent failure in the domain of reading.