Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This toolkit provides communication techniques for facilitating a healthy living program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

The UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer is a tool that can be used to design learning experiences that meet the needs of all learners.

This guide addresses topics related to facilitating a seamless transition from school to post-school activities to ensure young adults with disabilities are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to be engaged in the 21st Century Workforce.

A free Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to assist teachers, content creators, Web developers, and others in creating adaptable and personalizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning styles and individual needs.

A series of three mini-webinars and ten playlists that contain a multitude of resources for adult educators.

This guide for adult education facilitators provides information and strategies for supporting adult learners living with mental health conditions or disorders.

This webinar describes savings options available to individuals with disabilities that do not jeapordize public benefits.

This practice brief offers considerations and step-by-step instructions for planning and executing task analyses for teaching new skills to students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

This site shows how to incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into curriculum, as well as learn about UDL and explore resources related to it. 

The study sought to determine the percentage of workforce students who may need to strengthen their understanding of the part-whole concept by using the same number line assessment.

A part of a series of info sheets that looks at the particular attention needed to motivate students with learning disabilities 

From College to Careers: Fostering Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in STEM is the product of a collaborative project initiated to examine current issues and explore future directions for improving the academic success and career entry rate of postsecondary students with disabilities (SWDs) in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. 

The purpose of this qualitative research paper is to describe the college prospects of transitioning adults with a GED credential and special needs, in terms of characteristics, challenges, attributes, and supports; the article concludes with interviewee and researcher recommendations for adult education programs and colleges to support transitioning adults.

This tool gives practitioners insight into helping students with disabilities learn math. 

This short guide covers vocabulary instruction for K-12 students with learning disabilities. 

This research study documents the employment situation of working-aged adults with intellectual disabilities across the country. 

Worksupport.com at Virginia Commonwealth University is a web portal that provides information, resources, and research on many topics related to the employment of individuals with disabilities. Projects include the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment of People with Physical Disabilities, Autism Center for Excellence, School to Work, and many others.

This resource describes the state of diagnostic assessments for learning disabilities among adult learners. 

This article provides an overview of Universal Design in Education and offers links to additional resources.

 Assistive Technology can offer powerful tools to students with learning disabilities by providing remedial or compensatory support in the classroom and for independent learning. This article includes an overview of various hardware, software and low tech tools for students and teachers with a focus on literacy and a mention of available math tools. While there is an emphasis on middle and high school, many of the tools described are useful for adult learners.

AccessSTEM/AccessComputing/DO-IT Longitudinal Transitional Study (ALTS) are two research projects funded through NSF with a goal to increase the number of people with disabilities who have degrees and careers in STEM.

This resource explores the inclusion of people with intellectual challenges and developmental disabilities at the post-secondary level.

This guide aims to help youth service professionals better understand issues related to learning disabilities so they can help youth with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities develop individual strategies that will enable them to succeed in the workplace.

This companion guide to the training is a stand-alone resource for professionals who work with adults with LD and haven't taken the Learning to Achieve training. 

This literature review builds upon and supplements the research review and analyses conducted by A Review of the Research Literature on Serving Adults with Learning Disabilities.