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What We're Really Talking About
When We're Talking About Universal Design for Learning
About This Resource
This poster names five things we mean when we talk about Universal Design for Learning.
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Accessible PDF of What We're Really Talking About (2 pages, 272 KB)
Visual version PDF of What We're Really Talking About (1 page, 931 KB)
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Text Version
What We're Really Talking About When We're Talking About Universal Design for Learning:
Creating the Conditions for Belonging
Picture: a crowd of people of different ages, cultures and abilities, including a person using a wheelchair.
Believing In, and Empowering, Every Learner
Picture: two hands holding up a person reading a book.
Embracing Variability
Picture: five figures in different colours, arms joined in a circle.
Understanding that Barriers Exist in the Design of Learning Experiences and the Environment, Not the Learner
Picture: a thumbs up with stars around it.
Engaging in the Iterative Design Process
Picture: a cycle of four arrows labelled Plan, Do, Check and Action.
About the Poster
This resource was created by Beth Stark, Inclusive Learning Systems. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.