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Assistive technology for kids with learning disabilities: An overview - Assistive techn... - 0 views

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  • The use of technology to enhance learning is an effective approach for many children. Additionally, students with LD often experience greater success when they are allowed to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). AT tools combine the best of both of these practices.
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  • AT for kids with LD is defined as any device, piece of equipment or system that helps bypass, work around or compensate for an individual's specific learning deficits. Over the past decade, a number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of AT for individuals with LD. 1 AT doesn't cure or eliminate learning difficulties, but it can help your child reach her potential because it allows her to capitalize on her strengths and bypass areas of difficulty. For example, a student who struggles with reading but who has good listening skills might benefit from listening to audio books. In general, AT compensates for a student's skills deficits or area(s) of disability. However, utilizing AT does not mean that a child can't also receive remedial instruction aimed at alleviating deficits (such as software designed to improve poor phonic skills). A student could use remedial reading software as well as listen to audio books. In fact, research has shown that AT can improve certain skill deficits (e.g., reading and spelling).2,3 AT can increase a child's self-reliance and sense of independence. Kids who struggle in school are often overly dependent on parents, siblings, friends and teachers for help with assignments. By using AT, kids can experience success with working independently
  • Tessa Fure on 07 Mar 13
     
    Using technology to assist children with special needs.
  • Alec Just on 11 Oct 13
     
    This is an article describing the overview of technology use with students with learning disabilities.
  • brittany vassios on 04 Mar 14
     
    This site explains how assistive technology can aide in a child's learning who has a certain disability.
Chelsea Reineke

Tech Tools for Students with Learning Disabilities: Infusion into Inclusive Classrooms ... - 0 views

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  • For students with learning disabilities (LD), technology can be an assistive tool replacing an ability that is either missing or impaired
  • Computers change the writing process by making it easier to develop and record ideas, to edit ideas, and to publish and share with others.
  • ronunciation editing, or the capability to adjust pronunciation of words produced by speech synthesizers, is available with some talking word processors. This feature allows writers to spell words and hear them pronounced correctly rather than phonetically (Beukelman, Hunt-Berg & Rankin, 1994).
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  • Technology increases the frequency of assignment completion and contributes to improved motivation (Bahr, Nelson, and VanMeter, 1996). It therefore supports some of the basic objectives of inclusive education: a sense of belonging to group, shared activities with individual outcomes, and a balanced educational experience.
  • Chelsea Reineke on 22 Oct 14
     
    This has technological adaptations for students with learning disabilities, especially writing, phonics, and reading.
Chelsea Reineke

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  • What kinds of assistive technology tools are available? The term "assistive technology" has usually been applied to computer hardware and software and electronic devices. However, many AT tools are now available on the Internet. AT tools that support kids with LD include: Abbreviation expanders Alternative keyboards Audio books and publications Electronic math work sheets Freeform database software Graphic organizers and outlining Information/data managers Optical character recognition Personal FM listening systems Portable word processors Proofreading programs Speech-recognition programs Speech synthesizers/screen readers Talking calculators Talking spell checkers and electronic dictionaries Variable-speed tape recorders Word-prediction programs
  • Emily Suchecki on 01 Mar 13
     
    This website explains that technology for kids with learning disabilities can be beneficial. I can come back to this site to use the list of assistive technology tools available to help kids that come to me in substitute of or in addition to the regular classroom.
  • Chelsea Reineke on 22 Oct 14
     
    Provides technology resources for educators to use with students that have learning disabilities. It explains what assistive technology and also provides other resources to use.
Emily Suchecki

Assistive Technology for Young Children in Special Education: It Makes a Difference | E... - 0 views

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  • Technology has opened many educational doors to children, particularly to children with disabilities
  • Technology is providing more powerful and efficient tools to teachers who work with children with disabilities. These tools enable teachers to offer new and more effective means of learning while individualizing instruction to the broad range of student learning needs.
  • Text can be read electronically by a digitized voice synthesizer for a person who is blind. For persons with hearing impairments, amplification devices can filter extraneous noise from the background or pick up an FM signal from a microphone on a teacher's lapel.
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  • It is critical to understand the implications of this definition to comprehend its effect on children with disabilities in our schools
  • t is important to understand that virtually all applications of technology -- tools for children to learn, as well as tools for teachers to provide learning opportunities -- can be defined as assistive technology.
  • Technology can be a great equalizer for individuals with disabilities that might prevent full participation in school, work, and the community.
  • Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) (1)
  • Using a portable voice synthesizer, a student can ask and respond to questions in the "regular" classroom, overcoming a physical obstacle that may have forced placement in a special segregated classroom or required a full-time instructional aide or interpreter to provide "a voice."
  • Teachers work with students to improve skills and knowledge, making existing skills and knowledge even more functional and improving fluency so that functional capabilities may be generalized into different settings
  • The benefit of AT is also easy to comprehend when a child who cannot hear can understand his teacher's directions because real-time captioning converts the teacher's speech to text projected onto his laptop computer.
  • Word processing, editing, spellchecking, and grammatical tools commonly found in high-end software facilitate the inclusion of students with learning disabilities in regular classrooms by allowing them to keep up with much of the work.
  • are accommodating physical, sensory, or cognitive impairments in many ways.
  • Jaslyn Posewitz on 22 Oct 12
     
    Discussion of the many types of assistive technology tools that are available for children with disabilities.
  • Breanna Rehor on 29 Oct 12
     
    This is a site where it provides information about technology in the classroom, in this case in special ed classrooms. It is useful because teachers can look at this site and gain knowledge about the gains of using assistive technology.
  • Emily Suchecki on 01 Mar 13
     
    This website explains the benefits specifically for students with disabilities. It levels the playing field so to speak.
Emily Johnson

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Math Lab Classroom Devices Assistive Technology

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  • Classroom Assistive Technology Devices
  • Learning Disabilities: Math
  • Access to Math Company: Don Johnston, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-999-4660 Catalog #: P90 Price: $79.00 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
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  • Big Calc Company: Don Johnston, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-999-4660 Price: $27.00 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Clock Company: Hartley Courseware, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-999-4660 Price: $ Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Coin-u-Lator Company: Onion Mountain Technology Tel #:1-860-693-2683 Price: $20.00 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Money Calc Company: Onion Mountain Technology Tel #:1-860-693-2683 Price: $ 15.00 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • IntelliMathics Company: IntelliTools, Inc Tel #: 1-888-285-9988 Catalog #:10581 Price: $ 139.95 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Math Blaster (In Search of Spot, Mystery, and Plus) Company: Davidson & Associates, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-556-6141 Price: $ 29.95 each Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • MathPad Company: IntelliTools, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-899-6687 Price: $79.95 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • MathPad Plus Company: IntelliTools, Inc Tel #: 1-888-285-9988 Catalog #:10609 Price: $ 99.5 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Math Skills Collection Company: Hartley Courseware, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-999-4660 Price: $ Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • how Me Math Company: Davidson & Associates, Inc. Tel #: 1-800-327-4269 Catalog #: SO-07W Price: $ 99.00 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Skill Builder (Whole Number, Fractions, Perimeter, area, & Volume, Decimals) Company: Gamco Educational Software, Inc Tel #: 1-800-351-1404 Price: $ 69.95 Each Function Domain: Learning Disabilities
  • Talking Desktop Calculator Company: Independent Living Aids Phone: 800-537-2118 Model: 276968 Price: $18.95 Function Domain: Learning Disabilities, Visual Impairments
  • Emily Johnson on 04 Nov 13
     
    Math classroom Assistive Technology Devices for learners with disabilities.
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