Free training modules, frameworks, and implementation guides you can bring into your classroom or school team this term.
📋 Framework
IEP Best Practices Toolkit
Step-by-step guide for writing meaningful IEPs for students with autism, including goal-writing templates, progress monitoring charts, and legal checkpoints.
Parent Center Hub
🏫 Inclusion
UDL Guidelines 3.0
CAST's latest Universal Design for Learning framework — multiple means of engagement, representation, and action & expression, revised in version 3.0 to center learner identity and belonging.
CAST.org
🤝 Social Skills
PEERS School-Based Social Skills
Evidence-based UCLA program adapted for school settings. Teaches friendship skills, navigating conflict, and managing social anxiety in adolescents with ASD.
UCLA PEERS Program
🧘 Sensory
Sensory Smart Classroom Guide
Practical strategies for reducing sensory overwhelm in classrooms — lighting, noise, movement breaks, flexible seating — based on OT research.
STAR Institute for Sensory Processing
📊 Assessment
ADOS-2 Classroom Observation Tools
Guidance on informal classroom observation instruments aligned with ADOS-2 protocols that school psychologists can use for functional behavior assessment.
WPS Publish
🎓 Training
AFIRM Modules for Educators
27 free self-paced online training modules from UNC on evidence-based practices — ABA, video modeling, social narratives, and more.
AFIRM / UNC
🗣️ AAC
AAC in Schools: Implementation Guide
Comprehensive guide on implementing Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices in K–12 settings, including team training and funding strategies.
ASHA
🔄 Transition
Post-Secondary Transition Planning
NTACT's evidence-based practices for transitioning autistic students to college, vocational training, or employment — including self-determination curricula.
NTACT:C