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Patti Porto

Dan Habib, Filmmaker and TEDxAmoskeagMillyard Speaker | TEDxAmoskeagMillyard - 0 views

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    "Dan Habib is the creator of Including Samuel and the new film Who Cares About Kelsey? Habib is the Filmmaker in Residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire."
Tero Toivanen

New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Sc... - 2 views

  • In the 1970s, a group of deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language.
  • It was the first time that deaf people from all over the country could gather in large numbers and through their interactions – in the schoolyard and the bus – Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) spontaneously came into being.
  • NSL is not a direct translation of Spanish – it is a language in its own right, complete with its own grammar and vocabulary.
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  • Its child inventors created it naturally by combining and adding to gestures that they had used at home. Gradually, the language became more regular, more complex and faster. Ever since, NSL has been a goldmine for scientists, providing an unparalleled opportunity to study the emergence of a new language.
  • those who learned NSL before it developed specific gestures for left and right perform more poorly on a spatial awareness test than children who grew up knowing how to sign those terms.
  • The idea that language affects thought isn’t new. It’s encapsulated by the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’, which suggests that differences in the languages we speak affect the way we think and behave.
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    "...as human language envolved, our mental ablities became increasingly entwined with linguistic devices."
Christine Southard

Technology Management - How to be a leader with assistive technology - 4 views

Amanda Kenuam

A School With A New Direction - 1 views

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    "special education, special needs, education, school, at-risk"
Peggy George

Teacher TV-Special Educational Needs Week - 0 views

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    It's Special Educational Needs Week on Teachers TV and we are showing your favourite SEN programmes. Differentiation in Action shows how you can differentiate tasks in the classroom to aid inclusion. The primary (Wednesday 4pm) episode looks at how puppets and text can be used to recognise speech in a KS1 class. The secondary (Tuesday 7.30pm) episode follows a history lesson where differentiation is used to great success and the pupils assess their own achievement as well as discussing which teaching styles they prefer and their preference for mixed achievement groupings. Also on this week is Being Different May be Cool, (Friday 7pm) an honest look at the challenges of dealing with children on the autistic spectrum through the lives of three autistic brothers and their mother.
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    Looks like some great shows on the Special Educational Needs Week programming this week-Teachers TV in the UK. This is an excellent site to bookmark and join their email list to be notified of new programs. Great videos for teachers.
Christine Southard

Pearson Announces New HTMLbooksTM For Students with Disabilities and Struggling Learners - 1 views

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    Pearson Announces New HTMLbooksTM For Students with Disabilities and Struggling Learners
Patti Porto

Universal Design for Learning - The ACCESS Project - Colorado State University - 6 views

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    "Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles and techniques for creating inclusive classroom instruction and accessible course materials. At its core is the assertion that all students benefit when they are given multiples ways to take in new information, express their comprehension, and become engaged in learning."
Kathleen N

Begin with Me - 0 views

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    Begin with ME! is a project that provides a rich environment full of resources and support that allows teachers and teacher consultants to work together, share ideas, and learn new ways to help all students, including those with special needs, become better writers. 1. When appropriate technology tools and strategies are integrated into instruction, all students, including those with special needs and those at risk for academic failure will become better writers.\n\n2. Given adequate training and support, teachers can comfortably integrate technology into their writing curriculum.\n\n3. Supporting struggling students in the general education classroom can be effective and easily replicated.
Kathleen N

New York DEN » NYS - Local Assistive Technology Training Available - 0 views

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    email DavidGrapka at gmail.com
Patti Porto

Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age | Students at the Center - 6 views

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    "This paper explores how new digital technologies can be used to design curricula that are flexible enough to adapt readily to individual differences. The authors propose that universal design for learning-as the confluence of advances in the neuroscience of human variability and in multimedia technologies-can create an "ecology for learning" which provides rich, diverse, student-centered learning pathways for all students. "
Peggy George

100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home - 0 views

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    For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is.
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    Look at this awesome compilation of helpful web tools for every kind of learner! Learned about it on Karen Janowski's blog.
Patti Porto

CAST: CAST Releases Free iPad Games to Improve Algebra Learning - 13 views

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    In response to a well-documented need to improve algebra learning, CAST this week released two innovative, research-based educational games that teach essential math reasoning and problem-solving skills. The puzzles-MathScaled and MathSquared-are now available through Apple's iTunes Store at no charge.
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