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 * Rewarding and challenging is how I describe my experience of designing my UDL for the two special needs students. What made it challenging is finding how best to meet the news of a blind student. I was assigned these students because out of the four members on our team, I was the only teacher with special education experience. I worked with visually impaired students before, but never have I ever had one that was completely blind. Consequently, I had to research how these students are taught, and that took time and study. The rewarding part is now my level of expertise has been upgraded to meet these kind of needs. As I constructed my UDL, I enjoyed planning activities that supported the recognition, strategic, and affective networks. Their relevance and importance help us plan and design flexible and diverse instruction “so that students have multiple pathways for achieving their goals.” (Rose & Meyer, 2002)

Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning//. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology web site, http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/ || [|UDL Lesson for the Hearing and Visually Impaired]