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1.1: Prelude

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    Individuals with complex needs require supports from multiple providers across multiple instructional domains. Designing and implementing effective supports for individuals with complex needs requires intentional committed collaboration from all stakeholders. This chapter introduces guiding principles for designing comprehensive instructional supports for individuals with complex needs that should create a conceptual and practical frame for the successive chapters of this text. Each of these guiding principles is a vast topic with multiple associated texts and resources. Therefore, within this chapter, practical resources are provided to help readers develop their repertoire of tools for designing effective and meaningful supports for individuals with complex needs.

    Six Guiding Principles for Developing Comprehensive Supports

    1. Plan with the individual and family
    2. Promote self-determination throughout the assessment, intervention, and monitoring process
    3. Examine the current and future inclusive environments
    4. Utilize Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in developing modifications and supports within inclusive environments
    5. Implement evidence-based practices to individualize instruction
    6. Use data to make decisions to improve instruction

    This page titled 1.1: Prelude is shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Samuel Sennott, Sheldon Loman, Kristy Lee Park, Luis F. Pérez, Michael J. Kennedy, John Romig, & Wendy J. Rodgers (Portland State University Library) .