Universal Design (UD) is a process that creates products and environments usable by people with diverse abilities. UD applies to curriculum, instruction, career services, multimedia, tutoring centers, web pages, appliances, and buildings. The UD process identifies the application, defines potential users, involves consumers, applies guidelines, plans for accommodations, trains involved parties, and evaluates. UD principles include equitable use, flexibility, simple and intuitive use, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and appropriate size and space. UD in education ensures diverse students are not marginalized by mainstream guidelines through designing flexible, universally-designed learning experiences that appeal to all learners.

1. UNIVERSAL DESIGN
WHAT IS IT?!

2. Universal Design has been defined as: "a goal and
process that can be applied to the design of any
product or environment.“
• UD should cater to a very wide range of
potential users
• Products or environments that UD can be
applied to include:
• Curriculum
• Instruction
• career services
• Multimedia
• tutoring and learning centers
• web pages
• Appliances
• buildings

3. THE PROCESS OF UD:
• Identify the application
• product or environment
• define the universe
• the population of potential users of the service and possible
characteristics
• involve consumers
• adopt the guidelines/standards
• apply the guidelines/standards
• plan for accommodations in case UD is not applied
to all users train and support for those involved
• evaluation
You've got the process down, now…but what about
the principles you should follow...?

4. PRINCIPLES OF UD
• equitable use
• useful and marketable to a diverse group
• flexibility in use
• wide range of individual preferences and abilities are
addressed
• simple and intuitive
• easy to understand
• perceptible information
• communicates necessary information effectively
• tolerance for error
• minimizes hazards and consequences of accidental or
unwanted actions
• low physical effort
• size and space for approach and use

5. WHAT ABOUT UD IN EDUCATION?!
• Universal Design in education ensures that the "non-
average" students are not marginalized, forgotten
or under-served by the mainstream guidelines,
whether they be below or above average.
• As teachers we must design learning experiences
that, from the beginning, are universal in their
approach and flexible.
• We must also make sure to not focus on just one
kind of students and create lessons that appeal to
learners across the board.

6. THE UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR
LEARNERS GUIDELINES
• The UDL guidelines focus on three main things:
• Multiple means of representation
• Multiple means of action and expression
And
• Multiple means of engagement
It also looks at goals and standards that need to be met, the
materials that will be used, the methods by which the subjects
will be taught and the means of assessment.
** The curriculum, not the students are the disability.
Use UDL to help! **

7. UDL GUIDELINES
• Multiple Means of Representation
• Perception
• language and symbols
• comprehension
• Multiple Means of Action and Expression
• Options for physical action
• Options for expression and fluency
• Options for executive decision
• Multiple Means of Engagement
• Options for recruiting interests
• Options for sustaining effort and persistence
• Options for self-regulation

8. CONCLUSION
• By implementing and practicing UDL in the classroom,
teachers and administrators are able to ensure that all
students are being taught in a manner that best suites
them.
• They are also able to ensure that students below, at or
above average are not overlooked or underserved
because of their particular needs
• UDL looks at the current curriculum as the problem or
disability rather than the children as the problem or
disability. By doing so, teachers can work toward
providing a better educational experience for all
children!

9. WORKS CITED
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfsx3DGpv5o&f
eature=relmfu
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_e
mbedded&v=pGLTJw0GSxk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3ardmq0a0&
feature=relmfu
• http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Progra
ms/ud.html