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Andrea MacMurray

Education Week: Assistive-Tech Connections - 0 views

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shared by Andrea MacMurray on 22 Mar 12 - Cached
  • facilitate better communication between parents and teachers of children with autism and provide more affordable, higher-quality education to those students.
  • Autism, a developmental disorder that can impair communication and social-interaction skills
  • struggles in school both academically and socially, forcing schools to find better ways to help them cope.
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  • The idea is that if you can show progress to the parents, and they can see how the child is doing, it creates a more effective communication system and reduces anxiety
  • reduces the amount of time special education teachers have to spend on paperwork,
  • provides a database of resources, lessons, and intervention strategies for teachers of students with autism. “We wanted to use the technology to help the teachers,” says Kevin Custer, the chief
  • “Computers and video games are not going to teach a kid with autism how to interact socially.”
  • “Children with autism like to look at videos and TVs over and over again,” she says, which can be an effective way of conveying information, but, she says, “my fear always with technology is that by the very nature of autism, [the students] find it easier to interact with inanimate things rather than with people.”
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  • Andrea MacMurray on 06 Apr 12
     
    This article focuses on children with autism. Children with autism typically have communication and social needs. Technology can assist in the communication needs but the author warns against using technology to teach social skills. This is due to the fact that a computer is not a real person. To teach social skills children need to be interacting with other people. It is all about creating a balance. This reitterates the fact that no child autism or not is the same. Not one thing is going to work for all. Through having this resource and using co-workers, parents, etc... as resources we can better meet the needs of all students. Not one particular learning experience will meet the needs of all students. We as teachers need to vary the methods we use to teach depending on our individual students.
Steve Bigaj

National Parent Center on Transition and Employment - 0 views

www.pacer.org/transition

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shared by Steve Bigaj on 24 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Steve Bigaj on 24 Jun 15
     
    "For families of youth with disabilities, the transition from high school to employment, postsecondary education, and life in the community presents a variety of significant challenges. PACER's National Parent Center on Transition and Employment website offers innovative tools, reliable research, and interactive training to help address the needs of families across the country."
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