The CAST UDL Guidelines™ are a tool that can be applied in any discipline or domain to ensure that all learners are able to access and participate in meaningful, challenging learning …

While we emphasize dimensions of identity as a part of variability in this section on Multiple Means of Engagement, the essential role identity plays in learning is woven across all three …

Use translations, descriptions, movement, and images to support learning in unfamiliar or complex languages.

Learn more about the Universal Design for Learning framework from CAST. The UDL Guidelines can be used by educators, curriculum developers, researchers, parents, and anyone else who …

Strategic & Goal-Directed | © CAST, Inc. 2018 | Suggested Citation: CAST (2018). Universal design for learning guidelines version 2.2 [graphic organizer]. Wakefield, MA: Author.

The UDL Guidelines are not meant to be a prescription or a checklist, but a tool that offers a set of suggestions that can be applied to instructional design to reduce barriers, sustain and honor …

Learners differ in the ways they navigate a learning environment, approach the learning process, and express what they know. Therefore, it is essential to design for and honor these varying …

The research basis for the general principles of UDL is grounded in modern neuroscience. The three basic principles are built upon the knowledge that our learning brains are composed of …

Since the release of Version 1.0 in 2008, CAST has released four iterations that trace our learning not only as an organization but as a broader UDL community. In 2020, CAST launched our …

This expanded version aims to fulfill the promise of the Guidelines as a resource to guide the design of learning environments and experiences that reduce barriers and more fully honor …