DISALLI: a self-assessment tool

I have published an open access self-assessment tool for language educators!

“The goal of this self-assessment tool is to guide instructors of additional languages in higher education who want to make more inclusive pedagogical choices for disabled students. This document includes a brief introduction to disability and additional language learning and teaching (the “why”), a short explanation of appropriate terms to use to describe disabled students’ resources and challenges, instructions for using the self-assessment tool, and the tool itself–a simple rubric broken up into several categories–designed to help you mark your progress as you work toward accessibility and inclusion standards.”

Cornell, C. (2026). Disability inclusion self-assessment for language learning and instruction (DISALLI). Knowledge Commons. https://doi.org/10.17613/6b5zd-hkf93

Please let me know in what ways these resources are helpful to you, what suggestions you have for updates (e.g., maybe a 2.0 of the DISALLI tool, and a K-12 version at some point), and what gaps you’re finding in the resources available to instructors and researchers that I might be able to turn my attention to!

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