Teaching Diverse Learners Center

The Center for Teaching Diverse Learners works to ensure that learners with low-incidence disabilities have access to equal and effective educational opportunities.

We do this by providing professional development, technical assistance, consultation, coaching and resources for educational agencies, programs, practitioners, and families working to improve the quality of life and learning for individuals who have significant cognitive and low incidence disabilities.

Executive Function Webcast Series

Ensuring Access to the General Curriculum for All Learners

Teachers and professionals are thrilled about this FREE video-based series! Create your free account and explore research-based strategies that are designed to ensure ALL learners have access to the general curriculum.

How-To Tips and Strategies

These quick videos showcase simple tips, adapted materials and strategies that demonstrate how easy it is to get started supporting diverse student in any subject area, any grade-level, and any classroom.

Teaching Diverse Learners Overview

Review the specific supports and services that should be included throughout the planning practices to ensure access and inclusive opportunity for ALL learners.

Standards Based Instruction and Assessment

Learn why assessments should be aligned to, and measure student knowledge of, grade level standards, functional skill standards and IEP goals and objectives.

Ohio Supports for Individuals with Significant Cognitive Delays and other Low Incidence Disabilities

Explore the wide range of supports and services available across the state.

Planning to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners

Improve your planning skills with planning templates and guidance documents designed to increase your capacity to meet the needs of the most complex learners.

Lending Library

OCALI's Lending Library connects people with disabilities and those who support them with accessible materials, resources, and technology to promote lifelong learning.

OCALICONLINE 2024

OCALICONLINE is the premier autism and disabilities conference, offering sessions which target a range of disabilities including autism spectrum disorder, deaf/hard of hearing, blind/visual impairments and other low-inci

InspirED Teaching Diverse Learners

Check out Teaching Diverse Learners Center's Zoomcasts from the OCALI InspirED series!

Challenging Behavior: Expect Success

This webinar series based on positive behavior intervention supports for challenging behaviors explores how to conduct a functional behavior assessment and behavior intervention plan.

Executive Function Webcast Series

Learn about executive function skills that enable people to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, juggle multiple tasks successfully, regulate behavior and delay immediate demands in favor of long-term goals.