The i-Skills would hold videos to help individuals communicate and live more independently. Researchers say it will be like a cookbook for everyday tasks. They plan to involve people with disabilities at every level of the three-year project.
University of Georgia researchers have received more than a million dollars to develop a mobile phone application for people with autism and developmental disabilities.
The i-Skills would hold videos to help individuals communicate and live more independently. Researchers say it will be like a cookbook for everyday tasks. They plan to involve people with disabilities at every level of the three-year project.
Unique Learning System is the ONLY online, dynamic, standards-based curriculum specifically designed for special learners. Subscribers download monthly instructional thematic units of study. Each unit contains 30 lesson plans and downloadable materials that teachers can readily implement into classroom learning activities. All materials are created using SymbolStix graphics. The unit lesson plans define three levels of differentiated tasks to accommodate the diversity of learners with significant disabilities.
" * A Normal Curve, along with associated standard score conversions for a variety of metrics, that can be used to convey results to clients or professionals;
* A Conversion Chart, which enables you to rapidly convert between T scores, z scores, percentiles, and standard scores;
* An Age Calculator, which quickly generates an individual's exact age in years, months, and days after you input his or her birth date;
* A Mental Age Determiner, which enables you to input an individual's chronological age and IQ and receive an estimate of his or her mental age;
* A Stopwatch, which assists in the monitoring of timed assessments or performance tasks by enabling you to count down from a specified amount of time or count up from 00:00; and
* A Compliancy Calculator, which helps you to comply with state and/or district mandates by quickly calculating the deadline for initial appointment set-up.
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Wonkido - web and mobile based platform designed to manage schedules, tasks, lessons, therapy or activities. Features fun, kid-friendly interface and built-in reward system.
Balance your homework
so you can produce better results with less stress.
homeworktree can help you:
work week-by-week, rather than deadline to deadline
work on smaller, shorter tasks rather than big ones
avoid deadlines "sneaking up on you"
enjoy your social time guilt-free! (because you've planned when the work will get done)
create a weekly plan, which allows flexibility and but still limits your procrastination
AT can be any item, piece of equipment, or teachermade product that is designed to improve a student’s functional capability or help a student succeed in accessing the general education curriculum
Commercially available mapping software, such as Inspiration, is an example of a high-tech solution to organizational work and thought problems
Clip art, videos, animations, maps, diagrams, and other graphic elements can be found online as well and are useful in assisting students who need visual imagery to better understand the concepts in a lesson
modified meterstick with staples at the centimeter markings for tactile use by those with visual impairments
instructional software program that converts text to speech for students who function at low reading levels; such devices could be used with headsets by students during classroom time
Lahm and Morrissette (1994) identify seven instructional areas in which AT has proven advantageous for use with students with mild disabilities: organization, note taking, writing assistance, productivity, access to reference materials, cognitive assistance, and materials modification
Organization
Light-tech solutions include the use of flow charts, task analysis, webbing or networking ideas, and outlining
Manage tasks with your to-do list
Keep track of what you have to do, and what you've done.
Never forget about homework or a quiz.
Easily search and share notes
Search and bookmark notes.
Share notes with your friends and groups.
Take, edit and share notes online
Take and store your notes online.
Edit and revise notes with peers.
Look-up and define words with your Workspace Utilities.
Assistive Technology (AT) is federally mandated for all students with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) by requiring that IEP teams consider the student’s needs for assistive technology devices and services in order to ensure a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE).
works to integrate with other services that the student receives. Training and support to ensure that AT services are effectively integrated into the student’s curriculum may be provided by any member of the IEP team.
The IEP team/504 committee may choose to email the AT Trainer during the meeting to initiate collaboration.
These supports identify potential strategies and tools to assist individual students who demonstrate difficulty achieving specific educational goals
Written recommendations for customizing and integrating tools and strategies presently available within the school environment to support the student in meeting individual educational goals.
Written recommendations for integrating tools and strategies presently available within the school environment and requesting an individual AT evaluation within the IEP/504 Plan to identify additional supports for consideration.
Student, Environment, Task, Tools (SETT) Framework to identify least restrictive individual supports.