Welcome to Project IDEAL Online
This Website is part of a teacher preparation program intended to better prepare teachers to work with students with disabilities. Project IDEAL (Informing and Designing Education For All Learners) was made possible by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities (TCDD). We invite you to explore our site and give us feedback.
About This Website
Where To Start
We encourage you to start with the Disability Categories module and familiarize yourself with each disability category. Also, take time to read the introduction to Special Education Public Policy. Feel free to explore the other modules, supplemental information and resources as you see fit. All this information changes regularly, so pay attention to the module status indicators for each module. See a key of module status indicators for more information.
Modules
Each teaching module follows a similar structure and includes Key Concepts, Activities, Presentations, Tests and Media. Explore the Key Concepts or jump into the Activities section to get ideas of how to implement what you learn in your classrooms. Also, as you explore our site, you will see definition tags and if you hover the word, term or acronym with you cursor more information will be provided. We invite you to give us feedback about our site using our Site Feedbackform.
Special Thanks
Financial support for Project IDEAL is provided by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, with Federal funds made available by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Developmental Disabilities.
Special thanks to all Project IDEAL Development Team members.
Contacting Our Site
We encourage you to use our contact form to submit your feedback about the site or report accessibility issues.
Note About Links
Although Project IDEAL cannot guarantee the accuracy of these noted resources, we have made every effort to include the latest information available. Please contact the webmaster at the top right of this website to provide suggestions and/or corrections to Project IDEAL regarding the accuracy of these resources. Project IDEAL is unable to control for the accessibility and accuracy of external website link resources; however, we have made every effort to note those resources that would be helpful to our readers.
