The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies is a unit within the Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Formerly known as the Carolina Literacy Center, the CLDS was established in September 1990 to address the literacy needs of individuals with severe speech and physical impairments in North Carolina. For more information, click the link: Center for Literacy and Disability Studies.

This site, hosted by the NC Department of Public Instruction, is directed to those who teach students with significant cognitive disabilities and who develop curriculum and instruction. For more information on the NC Extended Content standards, select the icon below. 

• NC Extended Content Standards Instructional Support Tools, select the icon. 
  
• The goals for Social Thinking Clinical Training (STCT) participants are to watch clinical practice in action, provided by a range of therapists, to engage in discussions to problem solve different client needs, to achieve a deeper understanding of our Informal Dynamic Social Thinking assessment process, and explore newest thinking around various Social Thinking topics. Select the Social Thinking icon below.
  
• There are things that we see. Body movements, environmental cues, pictures, objects and written language can all be used to support communication. Heather Ayers, Cumberland Co. Schools Teacher shows an overview of visual support. Click on Autism & Special Needs Visual Support.
  
  
• Do2learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment and life skills. 
  
  Executive Functioning Strategies-Video: