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Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Academics at Home
This video provides parents of students with disabilities, specifically those with the most significant cognitive disabilities, with tips on how to support their child’s standards-based instruction…
Published: November 2020
IEPs for Students Who Participate in the Alternate Assessment
This presentation, focusing on IEPs for students who participate in the alternate assessment, was presented at the Ohio OCALICON autism and disabilities international conference.
Published: 2020-11-11
States and Districts Working Together to Make Improved Decisions about Alternate Assessment Participation and Meet the State Level 1% Threshold
This presentation, highlighting states and districts working together to make improved decisions about alternate assessment participation and meeting the state level 1% threshold, was presented at …
Published: 2020-11-11
Successfully Instructing and Assessing Students who Take the Alternate Assessment (and Those Who Used to Take the Alternate)
This presentation addresses how to successfully instruct and assess students who currently take alternate assessments or used to take them. It was presented at the 2020 Inclusive Education Leadersh…
Published: 2020-11-11
Indicators of Self-Determination in Wisconsin using National Core Indicators Data
This report examined indicators of self-determination in the state of Wisconsin, in the region, and nationally for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD) using the …
Published: 2020
Adapting positive behavioural support technical assistance strategies to the 'new normal' emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper discusses strategies to deliver person-centered, positive behavior supports that were employed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: 2020-11-01
Aging, Community-Based Employment, Mobility Impairment, and Retirement: National Core Indicators-Adult Community Survey Data
Little is known about how, when, or why individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) retire. Recognizing the changing needs of older adults with IDD is critical to support …
Published: 2019
Area-level associations between built environment characteristics and disability prevalence in Australia: An ecological analysis
The importance of health-promoting neighborhoods has long been recognized, and characteristics of local built environments are among the social determinants of health. People with disability are …
Published: 2020-10-26
RTC-OM HCBS Outcome Measurement Briefs: Development of HCBS Outcome Measures (#3)
This brief provides an overview of the importance of following a rigorous testing strategy when developing new HCBS outcome measures. It also describes the multi-stage development and testing …
Published: 10/20/2020
RTC-OM HCBS Outcome Measurement Briefs: HCBS Outcome Measurement Tools and Current State Approaches to Measurement (#2)
This brief delineates the importance of carefully using information regarding HCBS outcome measures when choosing a measure for use and provides the rationale and development history of the RTC- …
Published: 10/20/2020
RTC-OM HCBS Outcome Measurement Briefs: Involving Stakeholders to Address Challenges in HCBS Measure Development: Toward Person-Centered Measurement (#1)
This brief discusses the important role stakeholders play in the development of HCBS outcome measures. It details the process the RTC-OM used to include stakeholders (e.g., recipients of HCBS, …
Published: 10/19/2020
RTC-OM HCBS Outcome Measurement Briefs
This series of briefs was developed by the RTC-OM staff to discuss issues fundamental to HCBS outcome measurement. Designed for HCBS measure developers, policymakers, program administrators, …
Parents’ postsecondary education expectations for students with autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities: Findings from NLTS 2012
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 to examine predictors at the individual, family, and school levels associated with parental expectations toward postseconda…
Published: 2020-10-19
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Alumni Update: Bobbi Rohwer
Published: 10/15/2020
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DSP Survey: More Hours and Risk, Not More Pay
Published: 10/15/2020
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Art for All: New Exhibit Starts Nov. 1
Published: 10/15/2020
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Frontline Initiative: Making a Career in Direct Support
Published: 10/15/2020
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New Impact: Self-Advocacy is Alive and Well
Published: 10/15/2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: October 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The October 2020 issue includes four feature stories, an ICI Facebook post, new publications, staff updates, …
Published: October 2020
Impact: Feature Issue on Self-Advocacy for People with Intellectual, Developmental, and Other Disabilities
An issue in the Impact series that looks at the Self-Advocacy Movement today, at its history and its shared history with the Civil Rights Movement, how people with disabilities are lifting their …
Published: Fall 2020
Current trends in telehealth applications to deliver social communication interventions for young children with or at risk for autism spectrum disorder
Purpose of Review: Early, intensive, and high-quality interventions can often improve social communication outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Many children experience …
Published: 2020-10-12
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Creating Inclusive 4H Youth Development Through Workforce Training
This project developed a replicable model to transform Minnesota 4H clubs to be fully inclusive of youth of color with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by expanding the knowledge …
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Economic Empowerment for People with Disabilities in Kenya
This project increased the capacity of Kenyan business owners with disabilities to do business with the United States and improved the business environment and climate for people with disabilities …
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Supporting the Full Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Kisangani
This project collaborated with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ministry of Social Affairs, Humanitarian Action & National Solidarity to work with local and regional government staff and …
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TeleOutreach Center
The TeleOutreach Center at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain brings together researchers, clinical pediatric providers, and developmental specialists to use technology to understand …
Exploring correlates of paid early work experiences for youth with autism: Using NLTS2012 data
Prior research has demonstrated that paid work experience while in school is a predictor of postschool employment outcomes for youth with disabilities. For youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD …
Published: 2020-09-30
Help Me Grow MN and MN Act Early Project Partnership
This final report of the Help Me Grow MN and MN Act Early Project Partnership tells how the collaborative project connected Help Me Grow MN resources with Minnesota’s culturally- and linguistically…
Published: 2020-09-30
Using Formative Assessment Strategies During Hybrid and Distance Education
This presentation addressed using formative assessment strategies during hybrid and distance education. It was presented at the 2020 National Association of State Directors of Special Education ( …
Published: 2020-09-24
Frontline Initiative: Making a Career in Direct Support
This issue of Frontline Initiative is about making a career in direct support. Direct support professionals (DSPs) report on why and how they have accomplished this. People supported and their …
Published: 9/21/2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: September 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The September 2020 issue includes three feature stories, an ICI LinkedIn post about DSP Week 2020, new publicat…
Published: September 2020
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Hearing Literacy
Published: 9/15/2020
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Minnesota Gathering: October 14 and 15
Published: 9/15/2020
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Pinpointing Autism’s Reach
Published: 9/15/2020
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Back to School, or Not: Helping Students, and Schools, Cope
Published: 9/15/2020
NCEO Data Analytics: Participation Rate for 2007-08 to 2016-17 (#14)
This interactive report presents the annual performance data for students with disabilities on state assessment data for 2007-08 to 2016-17 which were analyzed to investigate trends in participatio…
Published: September 2020
Policy Pushing Measurement Expertise for the Inclusion of ALL Students in Testing for Accountability
This presentation addressed the role of policy in pushing measurement expertise for the inclusion of all students in testing for accountability. It was presented at the 2020 National Council on …
Published: 2020-09-11
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Project SCOPE: Supporting Children of the Opioid Epidemic
ICI's MNLEND program created a network of partner organizations across Minnesota to enhance developmental screening, monitoring, and education for families dealing with the effects of opioid …
Exploring the participation of people with developmental disabilities in self-advocacy groups in Korea: “I like it because I can share my story in front of others with my friends!”
This study investigated the experiences of people with developmental disabilities in self-advocacy groups to better understand the self-advocacy movement, which is currently in its developing …
Published: 2020-09-10
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Partnering to Transform Health Outcomes with Persons with IDD (PATH-PWIDD)
ICI is collaborating with several organizations on this project, which was developed to improve health and healthcare for persons with IDD by improving education received by students and profession…
IEP/transition planning participation among students with the most significant cognitive disabilities: Findings from NLTS 2012
This study used data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012 (NLTS 2012) to explore the individualized education program (IEP)/transition planning participation and role of students …
Published: 2020-08-28
Successfully Making and Implementing Participation and Accommodations Decisions for English Learners with Disabilities
This presentation addressed how to successfully make and implement participation and accommodation decisions for English learners with disabilities. It was presented to the U.S Departments of …
Published: 2020-08-27
TIES Center Briefs: The General Education Curriculum - Not an Alternate Curriculum! (Brief #5)
This parent brief was developed to help parents determine whether their child with significant cognitive disabilities is provided meaningful access to the general education curriculum. It addresses…
Published: August 2020
TIES Center Briefs: Providing Meaningful General Education Curriculum Access to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (TIES Center Brief #4)
This brief addresses the question of what access to and progress in the general education curriculum means for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. It provides examples of …
Published: August 2020
Reconsiderandolas expectativas para los estudiantes con discapacidades (NCEO Brief #17) (Spanish)
The purpose of this brief (translated in Spanish) is to summarize some of the past exclusionary practices that resulted from low expectations for students with disabilities, and how those were …
Published: July 2020
NCEO Reports: A Summary of the Research on the Effects of K–12 Test Accommodations: 2017 (#418)
The purpose of this report is to provide a synthesis of the research on K-12 testing accommodations. In this report, we summarize the research published in 2017.
Published: August 2020
NCEO Reports: Text-to-Speech Accommodation Policies in 2018-19 (#417)
The purpose of this report is to provide an updated review of state text-to-speech (TTS) policies across general assessments of reading, writing, mathematics, and science. TTS refers to technology …
Published: August 2020
How Do We Lower our Alternate Assessment Participation Rate? Five States Share their Stories
This presentation featured five states addressing how to lower alternate assessment participation rates. It was presented to the U.S Departments of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary …
Published: 2020-08-20
NCEO Reports: Updated Assessment Principles and Guidelines for English Learners with Disabilities (#424)
This updated report, originally published in 2013, presents five core principles of valid assessments for English learners with disabilities, along with a brief rationale and specific guidelines...
Published: August 2020
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Agency Change in the Time of COVID
Published: 8/18/2020
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DSP Recognition: The Other 51 Weeks
Published: 8/18/2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: August 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The August 2020 issue includes three feature stories, an ICI Facebook post about a Frontline Initiative story …
Published: August 2020
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Reinventing Quality, Reimagined
Published: 8/17/2020
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Closing Gaps: Autism’s Health Disparities
Published: 8/17/2020
NCEO Newsletter: October 2020 issue
This issue highlights translations of several NCEO and affiliated center products. One or more publications are now available in each of the following languages: Arabic, Traditional Chinese, …
Published: October 2020
NCEO Reports: State Spotlights: Reducing AA-AAAS State-Level Participation Rates to Meet the 1.0% Threshold, 2016-17 to 2017-18 (#421)
This report highlights the work of states in the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) 1% Community of Practice (CoP) that reduced their alternate assessment participation rates from...
Published: July 2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: July 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The July 2020 issue includes three feature stories, an ICI Facebook post about an Impact story on love and …
Published: July 2020
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Alumni Update: Casey Burrows, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Published: 7/15/2020
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MNLEND Project Responds to Opioid Crisis
Published: 7/15/2020
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It Takes a Whānau
Published: 7/15/2020
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Making an Impact: ICI Honors Vicki Gaylord
Published: 7/15/2020
Meeting Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Requirements: Alternate Assessments and Inclusion of All Students
This presentation addressed how to meet Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requirements on alternate assessments and inclusion of all students. …
Published: 2020-07-15
Evidence Base on Assessment Accommodations for English Learners
This brief summarizes the findings of a 2010-2018 literature review on assessment accommodations conducted by the Improving Instruction for English Learners through Improved Accessibility Decisions…
Published: July 2020
TIES Center Briefs: 10 razones para apoyar a las comunidades escolares inclusivas para todos los estudiantes
Educators, students, and families have found many compelling reasons to support inclusive education for students with and without disabilities. This Brief, translated into Spanish, delineates ten …
Published: June 2020
NCEO Reports: Guidebook to Including Students with Disabilities and English Learners in Assessments (#420)
This report provides 10 lessons about how to ensure inclusive assessment practices for students with disabilities and English learners. In addition to the 10 lessons, it provides foundational …
Published: June 2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: June 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The June 2020 issue includes four feature stories, an ICI Facebook post about an Impact story on disability...
Published: June 2020
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Alumni Update: Patrick Mitchell, Disability Rights Advocate
Published: 6/16/2020
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A Grand Challenge for Ukraine: Building an Inclusive Community
Published: 6/16/2020
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Tapping Job Skills
Published: 6/16/2020
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MNLEND’s 12th Cohort Graduates Virtually
Published: 6/15/2020
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ICI Responds: A Call for Justice and Reform
Published: 6/15/2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Working with Language Interpreters: Information for Parents or Guardians (Vietnamese translation)
This Brief, translated into Vietnamese, answers questions about working with a language interpreter that parents or guardians of students who are English learners might have. Clear, comprehensible …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Working with Language Interpreters: Information for Parents or Guardians (Spanish translation)
This Brief, translated into Spanish, answers questions about working with a language interpreter that parents or guardians of students who are English learners might have. Clear, comprehensible …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Working with Language Interpreters: Information for Parents or Guardians (Traditional Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Traditional Chinese, answers questions about working with a language interpreter that parents or guardians of students who are English learners might have. Clear, …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Working with Language Interpreters: Information for Parents or Guardians (Simplified Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Simplified Chinese, answers questions about working with a language interpreter that parents or guardians of students who are English learners might have. Clear, …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Working with Language Interpreters: Information for Parents or Guardians (Arabic translation)
This Brief, translated into Arabic, answers questions about working with a language interpreter that parents or guardians of students who are English learners might have. Clear, comprehensible …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Building Successful Communication Between Parent or Guardian and Teacher: Information for Parents or Guardians (Vietnamese translation)
This Brief, translated into Vietnamese, explains how parents or guardians of students who are English learners can develop successful communication with teachers. Good parent-educator communication…
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Building Successful Communication Between Parent or Guardian and Teacher: Information for Parents or Guardians (Spanish translation)
This Brief, translated into Spanish, explains how parents or guardians of students who are English learners can develop successful communication with teachers. Good parent-educator communication …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Building Successful Communication Between Parent or Guardian and Teacher: Information for Parents or Guardians (Traditional Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Traditional Chinese, explains how parents or guardians of students who are English learners can develop successful communication with teachers. Good parent-educator …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Building Successful Communication Between Parent or Guardian and Teacher: Information for Parents or Guardians (Simplified Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Simplified Chinese, explains how parents or guardians of students who are English learners can develop successful communication with teachers. Good parent-educator …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Building Successful Communication Between Parent or Guardian and Teacher: Information for Parents or Guardians (Arabic translation)
This Brief, translated into Arabic, explains how parents or guardians of students who are English learners can develop successful communication with teachers. Good parent-educator communication is …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Accessibility Features and Accommodations: Information for Parents or Guardians (Vietnamese translation)
This Brief, translated into Vietnamese, explains accessibility features and accommodations for parents or guardians of students who are English learners, and also provides guidance on how to talk …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Accessibility Features and Accommodations: Information for Parents or Guardians (Spanish translation)
This Brief, translated into Spanish, explains accessibility features and accommodations for parents or guardians of students who are English learners, and also provides guidance on how to talk to …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Accessibility Features and Accommodations: Information for Parents or Guardians (Traditional Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Traditional Chinese, explains accessibility features and accommodations for parents or guardians of students who are English learners, and also provides guidance on how …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Accessibility Features and Accommodations: Information for Parents or Guardians (Simplified Chinese translation)
This Brief, translated into Simplified Chinese, explains accessibility features and accommodations for parents or guardians of students who are English learners, and also provides guidance on how …
Published: June 2020
Improving Instruction Briefs: Accessibility Features and Accommodations: Information for Parents or Guardians (Arabic translation)
This Brief, translated into Arabic, explains accessibility features and accommodations for parents or guardians of students who are English learners, and also provides guidance on how to talk to …
Published: June 2020
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Statement from ICI's Director on the murder of George Floyd
Published: 6/5/2020
1% Toolkit: A Five-Step Process for Developing and Reviewing District Justifications for Exceeding 1.0% AA-AAAS Participation (NCEO Tool #8)
The 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), includes a 1.0% threshold on state-level participation rates in the alternate…
Published: June 2020
NCEO Brief: Five Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Distance Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities (#20)
The purpose of this Brief is to describe the use of formative assessment processes with students with disabilities during distance learning. Formative assessment is important for all kinds of …
Published: May 2020
FYI from the Institute on Community Integration: May 2020
FYI Monthly is a monthly e-communication from the Institute on Community Integration. The May 2020 issue includes four feature stories, a leading ICI Facebook post about a survey of direct support …
Published: May 2020
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Alumni Update: Katharine Hill
Published: 5/15/2020
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DSP Professionalism: The Art of Relationships
Published: 5/15/2020
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TIES Center Provides Tips Online to Quarantined Teachers and Families
Published: 5/15/2020
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Latest Issue of Impact: Brothers and Sisters
Published: 5/15/2020
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Survey: DSPs in a Time of Crisis
Published: 5/15/2020
NCEO Data Analytics: Percentage of Students with IEPs Who Were Assigned Accommodations from 2007-08 to 2016-17 (#13)
This interactive report presents data on the number and percentage of students receiving special education services who were assigned accommodations for the state general assessments used for …
Published: May 2020
1% Toolkit: Start with the End in Mind: An Infographic to Guide Decisions about Student Participation in the Alternate Assessment (NCEO Tool #7)
This Infographic to Guide Decisions about Student Participation in the Alternate Assessment tool is designed to provide guidance about IEP team decision making for a student’s participation in the …
Published: May 2020
1% Toolkit: Who Should Participate in Your State’s Alternate Assessment? A Slide Presentation Tool for Administrators (NCEO Tool #6)
This Slide Presentation tool is designed to support the needs that administrators have for brief but substantive information about who should participate in the state’s alternate assessment on...
Published: May 2020
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Finding Tasks and Jobs
A brief for employment consultants and employment support professionals, offering them practical advice on how to find tasks and jobs for job seekers with disabilities. Finding tasks and jobs is...
Published: 5/7/2020
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Support After Hire
A brief for employment consultants and employment support professionals, offering them practical advice on how to support employees with disabilities after hire. Support after hire is one of the …
Published: 5/7/2020
Bringing Employment First to Scale: Supports Planning
A brief for employment consultants and employment support professionals, offering them practical advice on how to plan supports for job seekers with disabilities. Supports planning is one of the …
Published: 5/7/2020

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