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Adapted Materials for Students with Low Incidence Disabilities
This was, previously, the population for which materials were hardest to find. I guess a benefit of No Child Left Behind was the mandate that ALL children be tested at grade level in core areas. These students benefited in the explosion of materials that were created just for them and with age appropriate content.

In all cases, be reminded that copyright laws still pertain to materials adapted from currently copyrighted text. Read the Chaffee Amendment to ensure that you do not violate the law when using these texts.

Print-based Materials
Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities Out of Vermont, this Center has adapted reading materials and lesson plans for students with significant disabilities across grade and age levels. The text is in either PDF or PowerPoint formats.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte has developed materials for middle school and high school students for a number of years now. They use Writing With Symbols (out of print) and Symwriter to adapt their text. Many files are available for download in PDF format if you don't have either of the software programs to open the adapted files.

Digitally-based Materials

Bookshare offers members (free membership for qualifying students with print disabilities in the state of Texas) access to literature, textbooks, magazines and newspapers in a variety of accessible text formats. A variety of free readers are available to download to your computer to access these materials.

Learning Ally was once recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. They provide audio files of the same materials as Bookshare. Membership is free to qualifying students in the state of Texas.