English Language Learners

Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, this resource contains curated resources to help you provide training and employment services to job seekers who may use English as a second language.

Knowing key facts about the brain from a UDL perspective can help inform learning design to address learner variability. Find out more in this downloadable resource designed for educators.

These tools—many designed and tested as part of CAST’s research projects—help educators, developers, families, and other individuals experience the power of flexible learning environments.

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn

When thinking about accessibility as a whole, it’s really important to remember that without accessibility, there can never truly be inclusion or equity. So we want to make sure that we’re addressing systemic issues of equity. Accessibility has to be one of our considerations. Watch this video on Operationalizing Accessibility to learn more.

This report, from the National Institute for Literacy (2009), includes instructional strategies, and accommodations. It also includes a section on ELLs with Learning Disabilities.

This VDOE publication presents differentiation and support ideas broken down by potential learning disability to support ELLs with disabilities.

This VDOE publication presents instructional strategies that can be used to support rigorous learning for ELLs with disabilities.

While the laws and policies discussed in this VDOE publication are applicable to the prek-12 context, this publication presents a model for developing processes for supporting ELLs with disabilities.

This publication provides an overview of adult ELLs with disabilities and responds to common questions asked about serving these learners in the adult education classroom.

This publication provides an overview of adult ELLs with disabilities and responds to common questions asked about serving these learners in the adult education classroom.

This publication provides an overview of English language learners with significant cognitive disabilities and breaks down standards expectations for those learners.