The Center for Applied Special Technology, known as CAST, is an educational research and development organization based in Wakefield, Massachusetts

Wakefield, Massachusetts

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Founded in 1984, CAST has earned international recognition for its innovative learning technologies, especially Bobby, the first widely used accessibility diagnostic tool for the World Wide Web

World Wide Web

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, and WiggleWorks, the first universally designed literacy

Literacy

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...

 program for elementary school

Elementary school

An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...

 (K-2).

CAST is also known for articulating the principles of Universal Design for Learning, an educational framework to guide the design and implementation of curriculum

Curriculum

See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...

that meet the needs of all learners, including those with disabilities.