ABSTRACT
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lends as a theoretical framework to support using mobile technology as assistive technology to allow students with disabilities to more fully participate in inclusive environments. This framework is supported by pedagogical approaches differentiated instruction and explicit instruction in inclusive learning and teaching settings. CAST describes the principles of UDL that provide multiple means of representation, engagement, action, and expression. The computer assisted instruction (CAI) is especially useful in the inclusive UDL classroom, due to the support it offers in differentiating instruction for all types of learners. The UDL framework combined with mobile technologies are suitable for improving the quality of life for students with special needs. Mobile technologies are useful technologies for a range of students with disabilities and can be implemented in a variety of ways to achieve a variety of purposes and it provides students with disabilities support to gain a variety of skills, knowledge and understandings in academic curriculum, social, and behavioral areas.
