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Child Development

Universal Design for Learning (CAST)

Universal Design for Learning

Focus

Plan for learner variability from the start — multiple ways to engage, understand, and show learning — instead of retrofitting help.

Key concepts

  • Multiple means of engagement
  • Multiple means of representation
  • Multiple means of expression

In the classroom

Directions are spoken, shown in pictures, and modeled — so the child who missed the words still knows exactly what comes next.

See it in practice

Every Edfable simulation connected to this theory — and why it applies.