New 3D Core Vocabulary Symbols Available through Creative Services

For students with significant cognitive disabilities and communication needs, core vocabulary is an important part of learning. For students with visual impairments, Project-Core has created a set of 3D symbols. You can read more about those at the Project-Core website. Heartland AEA's Creative Services Department now has six symbols available for purchase: GO, LIKE, NOT, LOOK, FINISHED, HELP and MORE. To order, go to csonline.heartlandaea.org and log in with the username/password used in the teacher training system. Enter 3d in the search box. Teachers can pay with school PO or p-card or their credit card.

AEA System Synthesis on DE Ruling on State Complaints Concerning House File 847 and Children with Disabilities

On Dec. 1, 2021 the Iowa Department of Education shared a decision related to a state complaint related to masking and children with disabilities. Iowa’s AEAs have provided both the full and abbreviated versions of the decision, which will be shared by each AEA with its managers and partnering superintendents in accordance with the ruling.

Information had been shared at both the Heartland AEA superintendent’s meeting and the Heartland AEA Special Education Network last week regarding a recent Ruling from the Iowa Department of Education on State Complaints Concerning House File 847 and Children with Disabilities. Iowa’s AEAs have created an abbreviated version of the ruling as a resource for administrators to use when working with teams to understand the ruling.

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