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UDL is a framework that can help you turn the challenges posed by high standards and increasing learner diversity into opportunities to maximize learning for every student.

Drawing upon new knowledge of how the brain works and new technologies and media now available for teaching and learning, UDL frames a systematic approach to setting goals, choosing or creating flexible materials and media, and assessing students accurately.

- Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning, ASCD, 2002

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A concept or philosophy for designing and delivering products and services that are usable by people with the widest possible range of functional capabilities... include products (without requiring assistive technologies) and ... that are made usable with assistive technologies.

- AT Act of 1998, P.L. 105-394, S. 2432

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