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Assistive Technology

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Assistive Technology

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  1. Assistive Technology Presentation By: Chasity Gore

  2. Assistive Technology • AT is any device or service that helps a student with a disability to meet his or her individualized education program (IEP)goals and to participate in the general education setting to the greatest possible extent.

  3. The law says.. • Each public agency must ensure that assistive technology devices or assistive technology services, or both, as those terms are defined in Sec. Sec. 300.5 and 300.6, respectively, are made available to a child with a disability if required as a part of the child's-- • (1) Special education under Sec. 300.36; • (2) Related services under Sec. 300.34; or • (3) Supplementary aids and services under Sec. Sec. 300.38 and 300.114(a)(2)(ii).

  4. Assisted Technology: Hearing Impaired Hearing Aids: They are miniature customized amplifiers worn by the students. These electronic devices amplify all sounds within close proximity of the student. Since all sound includes background noise, hearing aids function best in quiet environments. In noisier environments such as classrooms and outdoors, other amplification technology is required. The region’s itinerant teacher for the hearing impaired and/or an audiologist will recommend the most appropriate device(s) for the student and may teach the student, teacher and family members techniques for checking and troubleshooting hearing aids.

  5. Assistive Technology: Seeing Impaired • CCTV: A CCTV (closed-circuit television)is an Electronic Magnification Reading System that enables visually impaired users to continue reading a variety of materials and writing. A CCTV uses a stand-mounted or hand-held video camera to project a magnified image of any printed matter onto a dedicated video monitor or a television screen

  6. Assistive Technology: Learning Disabled • These are portable devices which dyslexic people can use to listen to text instead of reading it. The user points the scanning pen on a particular printed word and the pen’s speech synthesizer then speaks that word. • Scanning pens can also scan a line of text and read it aloud. Some of these devices have built-in dictionaries that can speak the definition of a scanned word. • Through this device, dyslexic users can understand printed text regardless of where they are.

  7. Assistive Technology for the Physically Disabled A joy stick allows special needs users to control the cursor with minimal hand movement and without fatigue. Movement of the on screen mouse or cursor is relative to what direction the joystick is directed. For example, movement of the stick to left; directs the mouse to left side of monitor screen. Movement of stick downward, will move the mouse down the monitor screen.

  8. References • Especial Needs. Especial Needs. Retrieved from http://www.especialneeds.com/computer aids-mouse-alternatives-rock-adapted-joystick.html • EvengroundsInc. Assistive Technologies for Persons with Dyslexia. (2007). • Retrieved from http://www.evengrounds.com • Special Needs Technology Assessment Resource Support Team. (1996). Meeting the Need of the Deaf andHard of Hearing. Retrieved from http://nsnet.org/start/deaf.pdf • Site Connection. (2013) Sight Connection Living Well with Vision Loss. Retrieved from http://www.sightconnection.com/cctvs.html • The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements. (2005). How people learn: Presentingthe learning theory and inquiry cycle on which the IRIS Modules are built. Retrieved on [August 26, 2014] from http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/hpl/

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