Make Grade-Level Academics Accessible for Nonspeaking Learners

Accessible Academics

A self-paced, 10-week course for educators, parents, and therapists. Learn how to adapt any subject area so your students can access real, rigorous curriculum and show what they know.

Trusted by 342 educators and parents across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.

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Is this course right for you?

For Parents:

For Educators:

You know your child is capable of more than what they are being offered at school. You want to understand how to advocate for grade-level instruction and support learning at home, but you are not sure where to start.

You have nonspeaking students in your classroom and want to provide meaningful, standards-aligned instruction rather than watered-down alternatives. You need practical strategies that work across subject areas.

For Therapists & Support Professionals:

You want to better collaborate with teachers and families to support academic access, and you want a framework for thinking about curriculum adaptation that goes beyond behavior management.

What you'll walk away with

After ten weeks, you will know how to:

Adapt reading, writing, math, science, and social studies for nonspeaking learners while maintaining grade-level rigor
Teach phonics and spelling to students who do not use speech
Assess comprehension through alternative response methods beyond speech and writing
Write IEP goals that reflect genuine academic expectations
Design inquiry-based science and history activities that are accessible without being simplified
Support creative and academic writing using AAC and multimodal tools
Bridge the gap between what happens at school and what happens at home

How the course works:

10 modules of on-demand video you can watch at your own pace. Each module includes downloadable handouts with key takeaways, adaptation examples, and practice opportunities. All videos are captioned. You get lifetime access to all materials, so you can revisit any module whenever you need it. Over 50 pages of printable resources are included.

Lara P.

Educator

"This course was concise and to the point. At last! An easy way to start working with my nonspeaking students!"

Rachell

Speech Language Pathologist

"This course is helping me explain to teachers how to help more students access grade-level work. It is also helping me check the biases I hold and make sure I'm not accidentally not offering opportunities to students just because they don't use speech."

Rachel

Parent

"I loved this course! I feel like this is the start of our next chapter."

What Parents & Educators are Saying

10 Weeks. Every Core Subject. Real Strategies You Can Use Right Away.

Week 1: Inclusive Education Foundations

What does it actually mean to presume competence, and how does that shape instruction?

Week 2: Supporting Motor Planning and Purposeful Action

Understanding the difference between what a student intends and what their body does.

Week 3: Phonics and Spelling Access

How to teach phonemic awareness to students who do not use speech.

Week 4: Reading Comprehension

Assessing understanding through alternative response modes.

Week 5: Making Math Accessible

Moving past functional math to conceptual reasoning and number sense.

Week 6: History and Social Understanding

Teaching critical thinking through narrative, biography, and multimedia.

Week 7: Science Through Inquiry-Based Learning

Making labs and abstract concepts accessible without simplifying them.

Week 8: Creative Writing Through AAC

Helping students express original ideas and emotions through multimodal tools.

Week 9: Academic and Informational Writing

Scaffolded supports for opinion writing, research, and reasoning.

Week 10: Putting It All Together

Designing individualized plans, writing IEP goals, and bridging home and school.

Meet Your Instructor,
Lisa Mihalich Quinn

Meet Lisa.

Lisa spent over 15 years teaching students with communication access needs in inclusive public school settings. She has trained hundreds of educators and families on how to make real, rigorous education possible for nonspeaking learners. She is the founder of Reach Every Voice and the creator of the Accessible Academics curriculum.

Your students deserve access to the same curriculum as their peers.

Accessible Academics gives you the tools to make that possible, one subject at a time.

Join 342 educators and parents who are already transforming how they teach.