Teaching · Special Education

Find the barriers, then give each one an owner.

List each barrier a learner meets, the change that would remove it and who will make it by when. The inventory orders them by impact and shows what has slipped.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The barrier inventory

One inventory per course, room or learner and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$19 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Barriers counted by type and impact, an ordered list with changes, owners and dates, and the items that are past due or have no owner; CSV of every row.
Who it is for
Teachers, accessibility coordinators, IEP and 504 teams and instructional designers.
Format
Browser inventory. Saved inventories; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV of the rows; export and import a file.
Access
$19 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
the barrier is in the room, not the learner
Drawn for this page. Under the social model of disability, the work is to find what in the environment blocks learning and remove it.

How to use it

  1. Start an inventory with a course or student code and the date.
  2. Say whose experience it covers and how you found the barriers.
  3. Add each barrier with its type, impact and the change that removes it.
  4. Name an owner and a date for each change.
  5. Copy it to a new date each month and close what is done.

Start an inventory

How to use the inventory

Barriers, not deficits

The social model of disability locates the problem in the environment: a bench too high, a video without captions, a quiz with a clock. Listing barriers this way points straight at changes someone can make.

For everyone first

A change that removes a barrier for everyone, such as edited captions or tagged documents, is better than an accommodation one learner has to ask for each time. Universal design for learning builds this in from the start.

What this is not

A replacement for the accommodations in an IEP or 504 plan. Use it alongside them.

Sources

  1. CAST (2018). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.2.
  2. World Health Organization (2001). International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: environmental factors as barriers and facilitators.
  3. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 34 CFR 104.4, and Title II of the ADA, 28 CFR 35.130: equal opportunity to participate.
  4. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Diverse Abilities and Barriers.

The example course is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.