• Functional Independence Skills Handbook
    FISH is targeted toward people with developmental disabilities, but this program would also be beneficial for children in the early grade levels or anyone with cognitive deficits, school age through adult. It is a criterion-referenced series of 421 tasks.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Functional Skills Assessment (used with the FEILA Curriculum (Active Learning))
    Consists of a book (The FIELA Curriculum: 730 Learning Environments), a catalog of activities and a velcro board which is used to organize the child's week. FIELA Curriculum offers a variety of level appropriate activities for children with multiple special needs. Works best in Internet Explorer.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP)
    HELP 0-3 is widely recognized as a comprehensive, on-going, family centered curriculum based assessment process for infants and toddlers and their families. HELP 3-6 (2nd Edition) is a comprehensive, on-going, curriculum-based assessment for use with young children and their families. HELP 3-6 complements and extends the skills of HELP 0-3.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Home Talk
    An assessment tool designed for use by parents and care providers of children who are deafblind and who have other disabilities. Its purpose is to help you participate more actively in the planning of your child's educational program. HomeTalk is designed to provide a broad picture of your child's skills, special interests, and personality.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Informal Assessments for Transition Planning
    Combo kit includes assessments for Postsecondary Education and Training, Independent Living & Community Participation, Employment & Career Planning
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Assumptions that Hinder Inclusive Education for Students with Complex Access Needs
    In this video, Cheryl Jorgensen, an expert on inclusion for students with the most complex access needs, discusses some assumptions that hinder inclusive education. This video aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices from TX CAN Indicator IV: Differentiated Instruction - Component 7.
    Type: Resource General
  • INSITE Developmental Checklist
    This checklist assesses the areas of gross motor, fine motor, self-help, cognition, social, emotional, communication, vision, auditory, and tactile development. The checklist has illustrated examples based on normal development with adaptations for children who are MSI.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • Life Centered Education (LCE) Competency Assessment Batteries – Transition Curriculum resources
    LCE combines instruction with related assessment items and contains a progressing tracking and reporting function that covers daily living, interpersonal, and employment skills.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • MacArthur-Bates Communication Development Inventories: Words & Gestures
    The first part of the CDI: Words & Gestures prompts parents to document the child’s understanding of hundreds of early vocabulary items separated into semantic categories such as animal names, household items, and action words. The second part of each form asks parents to record the communicative and symbolic gestures the child has tried or completed.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource
  • The Oregon Project (OR Project) – Seventh Edition
    A comprehensive assessment and curriculum designed for use with children birth to six who are blind or visually impaired.
    Type: Assessment and Instruction Matrix Resource