Unless specific media and materials are critical to the goal (e.g., learning to paint specifically with oils, learning to hand write with calligraphy), it is important to welcome and encourage a variety of media for expression. Such variety reduces media-specific barriers to communication among learners with disabilities, honors forms of communication that have historically been devalued, and increases the opportunities for every learner to develop a wider range of expression in a media-rich world. For example, it is important for all learners to learn composition, not just writing, and to learn the optimal medium for any particular content of expression and audience.

• Compose in multiple media such as text, speech, drawing, illustration, comics, storyboards, design, film, music, storytelling, dance/movement, visual art, sculpture, or video.
• Use physical manipulatives (e.g., building blocks, 3D models, base-10 blocks).
• Use social media and interactive web tools (e.g., discussion forums, chats, web design, annotation tools, storyboards, comic strips, animation presentations).
• Solve problems using a variety of strategies.