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Special Needs Overview
Students with special needs are held to the same National
and State science, math and technology education standards
as their peers. However, current NASA materials are often
not designed with the deaf/hard of hearing, blind/visually
impaired, orthopedic, multi-disabled, or learning disabled
user in mind. SERCH has been working with educators and experts
from these exceptional classroom settings and organizations
to identify what kinds of educational materials they need
and what educational products will work best for their students.
From our discussions and work with these educators and experts,
it is clear that there is a need to modify and/or adapt existing
educational materials and to encourage NASA product developers
to include educational methods for involving the exceptional
student population. To answer this dilemma SERCH has been
working closely with special needs educators, experts and
NASA education product developers to implement more effective
ways for ALL students to share in the excitement of NASA space
science missions.
To learn more about special needs, read 'An Introduction To
Special Needs' (.pdf
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To learn more about making Earth and Space Science products more accessible (created by a team of professional educators
and scientists), read our 'Best Practices: Top Ten List' (.pdf
version)
These documents require that you have Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Reader. Reader can be downloaded at the
Adobe Reader website.
Check out these NASA articles on making NASA science and math accessible...
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